Betty Grable

On stage 2 productions, 25 years

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Worked with more than once1 names

Both names in the same cast list, more than once. It is not evidence of a partnership — a long-running company puts the same forty people together every night — but it is where one would start looking.

In the literature8 passages

• Meanwhile, back on Broadway, one could see signs that boasted “3rd Smash Year! Betty Grable Is Dolly!” But suddenly, Betty Grable wasn’t. Since she’d joined the company on June 12, 1967, the grosses had been steadily dropping. What had happened to the hit that Merrick expected would beat My Fair Lady as the longest-running musical of all…ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
• Three for the Show. Dir. H. C. Potter. With Betty Grable, Marge and Gower Champion, and Jack Lemmon. Columbia, 1955.ebooks/Gilvey, John Anthony/Before the Parade Passes By_ Gower Champion and the Glorious American Musical - John Anthony Gilvey.txt
• Cast: Bert Lahr, Ethel Merman, Betty Grable, Benny Baker, Ronald Graham, Charles Walters, Kay Suttonebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
• John Williams received his Oscar from Betty Grable and Dick Haymes. In his acceptance speech, he thanked “for all of us” Harnick and Bock for their score, which “has enriched all of our lives”; he further thanked Jewison, violinist Stern, and his colleague Alexander “Sandy” Courage.ebooks/Isenberg, Barbara/Tradition!_ The Highly Improbable, Ultimately Triumphant Broadway-to-Hollywood Story of Fiddler on the Roof, the World's Most Beloved Musical - Barbara Isenberg.txt
• The “wacko” group of players also included Betty Grable, the vivacious blond dancer making her Broadway debut after a discouraging nine-year stint in Hollywood. Grable was funny and unpretentious, always cracking jokes with the stage crew and chorus members, and her foul mouth could give Ethel’s a run for its money. Also on board was Char…ebooks/Kellow, Brian/Ethel Merman_ A Life - Brian Kellow.txt
• C AST : Ethel Merman (as May Daly), Bert Lahr, Betty Grable, Ronald Graham, Charles Walters, Benny Baker, Jean Mooreheadebooks/Kellow, Brian/Ethel Merman_ A Life - Brian Kellow.txt

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• Which of the credits above the roles on this record — actor — apply to. The roles sit on the person and never on a credit, so a director who also acted looks the same here as one who did not.