Add/Update Information: Betty Grable - Actor

American actress who was born in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA on December 18, 1916 as Elizabeth Ruth Grable. She received a star on the Walk of Fame in 1960. She married actor and director Jackie Coogan (1937-1940), then married actor Harry James (1943-1965), with whom she got two children. She went to Hollywood in search of stardom and got several roles in films, such as Happy Days (1929) and Whoopee! (1930). During the Second World War, she starred in several works, including Coney Island (1943) and Sweet Rosie O'grady (1943). She worked in the musical theater and became the highest-paid star in America ($ 300,000) after the war. In the fifties, music declined and her popularity declined with it. Her last movie was: How to Be Very Very Popular (1955), after which she focused on Broadway and nightclubs. She died on July 2, 1973 in Santa Monica, California, of lung cancer.