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Betty Garrett

Highest Rated: 100% Neptune's Daughter (1949)

Lowest Rated: 17% Words and Music (1948)

Birthday: May 23, 1919

Birthplace: St. Joseph, Missouri, USA

While her big break in film came with "On the Town" (1949) opposite Frank Sinatra, stage and screen actress Betty Garrett was more widely known to a younger generation as the landlady with a heart of gold on the comedy series "Lavern & Shirley" (ABC, 1975-1983). After gaining acclaim on Broadway in musical comedies such as "Call Me Mister" (1946), she was soon under contract with MGM, hoofing it alongside the likes of Mickey Rooney and Gene Kelly. Sadly, the "Red Scare" and subsequent Hollywood Blacklisting of the 1950s largely derailed the careers of Garrett and husband Larry Parks. After years in relative obscurity, she returned with the recurring role of Irene Lorenzo on "All in the Family" (CBS, 1970-79), followed by a six year stint on "Laverne & Shirley." Garrett continued to make infrequent television and stage appearances over the next three decades before passing away in February of 2011 at the age of 91.

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Highest-Rated Movies

100% 58% Neptune's Daughter
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95% 71% Take Me Out to the Ball Game
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94% 83% On the Town
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83% 62% My Sister Eileen
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17% 61% Words and Music
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Shadow on the Window
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59% Trail of the Screaming Forehead
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Big City
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64% Dark and Stormy Night
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All the Way Home
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Filmography

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Dark and Stormy Night 64% 2009 Mrs. Hausenstout Actor Trail of the Screaming Forehead 59% 2007 Mrs. Cuttle Actor The Long Way Home 39% 1998 Veronica Actor All the Way Home 1981 Catherine Actor Shadow on the Window 1957 Linda Atlas Actor My Sister Eileen 83% 62% 1955 Ruth Sherwood Actor Neptune's Daughter 100% 58% 1949 Betty Barrett Actor On the Town 94% 83% 1949 Brunhilde Esterhazy Actor Take Me Out to the Ball Game 95% 71% 1949 Shirley Delwyn Actor Big City 1948 'Shoo-Shoo' Grady Actor Words and Music 17% 61% 1948 Peggy Lorgan McNeil Actor
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