Valerie Bettis

On stage 4 productions, 10 years

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Worked with more than once4 names

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Also credited on1 work

Inside U.S.A.

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In the literature8 passages

• Cast : Bambi Linn (Bonnie), Betty Low (Prudence), Rod Alexander (Albert), J. C. McCord (Jake), Aleen Buchanan (Maybelle), Valerie Bettis (Kitty), Jay Marshall (Crumleigh), Earl Oxford (Butch), Vivienne Segal (Leslie Butterfield), Martha Wright (Carol), Mark Dawson (Vince), Stuart Erwin (Woodrow Twigg), Marjorie Peterson (Mimsey), Jeanne B…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Act One: “When the Sheets Come Back from the Laundry” (Valerie Bettis, Bambi Linn, Betty Low, Aleen Buchanan, Rod Alexander, J. C. McCord, Jay Marshall, Dancers); “It’s a Long Time till Tomorrow” (Martha Wright, Mark Dawson); “Headin’ for a Weddin’” (Stuart Erwin, Valerie Bettis, Bambi Linn, Betty Low, Aleen Buchanan, Rod Alexander, J. C.…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• But all the critics agreed the musical had three strengths: the contributions of Stewart Chaney, Helen Tamiris, and Valerie Bettis. Barnes praised Chaney’s “extraordinarily stylish and effective” scenery, costumes, and lighting (Chaney’s decrepit mansion was festooned with gigantic cobwebs), and Coleman said Chaney’s contributions “should…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Cast : Jules Munshin , Mary McCarty , Pearl Bailey , Valerie Bettis, Jane Harvey, Byron Palmer, Robert Chisholm, Garry Davis, Charlene Harris, Donald Saddler, Gene Barry, Lee Barnett, Noel Gordon; Show Girls (“A Swarm of Sultry Sylphs”): Blanche Grady, Jill Medford, Kris Nodland, Gloria Olson, Dell Parker, Madelyn Remini, Gwenna Lee Smith…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Bless You All was the third musical in three years in which Valerie Bettis walked away with rave notices. She had entranced the critics with her dancing in the 1948 revue Inside U.S.A. , and earlier in 1950 had knocked them dead in Great to Be Alive! She seems to have been a dancer in the sexy and saucy style of Gwen Verdon, with a touch…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• During the tryout, choreographer Valerie Bettis was replaced by Ted Cappy; the dance number “After Hours” and the sequence “Summer House” (which included the songs “So Far, So Good” and “Everlasting”) were deleted (but “Everlasting” was retained as a stand-alone number). “So Far, So Good” was a revised version of the song “Give Me a Song…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt

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