Betty Grable

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The Reluctant Movie Queen
Betty Grable was a favourite pin-up all over the world, one of Hollywood's biggest box-office stars, and - fór many years - the highest- paid woman in the United States. Here, fór the first time, is the life story of'the girl with the gorgeous gams'.
Betty was sométhing special: her warm spontaneous charm endeared her on camera to men and women alike. She was both the girl next door and the leggy sex symbol who lightened the gloom of the dark days of the Second World War.
Her mother's stage ambitions for this pretty, talented daughter led to a film debut at the age of fourteen, followed by a career in which Betty became one of the best-loved comic actresses on the screen. And the world she moved in led to her being much-loved: important men in her life in-cluded George Raft, husbands Jacky Coogan and Harry James, and her young lover, B ob Rémiek.
Filled with fascinating and intimate accounts from many
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The Reluctant Movie Queen
Betty Grable was a favourite pin-up all over the world, one of Hollywood's biggest box-office stars, and - fór many years - the highest- paid woman in the United States. Here, fór the first time, is the life story of'the girl with the gorgeous gams'.
Betty was sométhing special: her warm spontaneous charm endeared her on camera to men and women alike. She was both the girl next door and the leggy sex symbol who lightened the gloom of the dark days of the Second World War.
Her mother's stage ambitions for this pretty, talented daughter led to a film debut at the age of fourteen, followed by a career in which Betty became one of the best-loved comic actresses on the screen. And the world she moved in led to her being much-loved: important men in her life in-cluded George Raft, husbands Jacky Coogan and Harry James, and her young lover, B ob Rémiek.
Filled with fascinating and intimate accounts from many
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who knew her well, Betty Grable: The Reluctant Movie Queen is a well-documented and eminently read-able biography of the sparkling, complex personality of one of the best-loved stars in Hollywood's history. It contains a complete list of her movies, an index and twenty-four pages of photographs.
Doug Warren has worked for many years on newspapers, most recently being an editor for The Hollywood Reporter, and is the author of more than sixty books.
Jacket designed by Irv Freeman ISBN 0 86051 165 0 Vissza