Betty Garrett Born: 23-May-1919 Birthplace: St. Joseph, MO Died: 12-Feb-2011 Location of death: Los Angeles, CA Cause of death: Aneurysm Remains: Cremated
Gender: Female Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Actor Nationality: United States Executive summary: Irene Lorenzo on All in the Family Stage and film actress who twice played a woman in love with Frank Sinatra, in Take Me Out to the Ballgame and On the Town. Hollywood career stalled when she and her husband, actor Larry Parks, were blacklisted in the red scare of the 1950s, though she was not called to testify, "because I was nine months pregnant with my second son, and they didn't think I would be a good witness." Father: Curtis Garrett (travelling salesman) Mother: Octavia Garrett Husband: Larry Parks (actor, m. 8-Sep-1944, d. 13-Apr-1975, two sons) Son: Garrett Parks (composer, b. 26-Jan-1950) Son: Andrew Parks (actor, b. 1-Mar-1951)
Golden Globe 1975 for All in the Family Hollywood Walk of Fame 23-May-2003
TELEVISION All in the Family Irene Lorenzo (irregularly, 1973-75) Laverne and Shirley Edna Babish-DeFazio (irregularly, 1977-80)
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR Carol Channing: Larger Than Life (20-Jan-2012) · Herself Dark and Stormy Night (16-Jan-2009) Broadway: The Golden Age (Apr-2003) · Herself The Long Way Home (1-Mar-1998) The Shadow on the Window (6-Mar-1957) My Sister Eileen (22-Sep-1955) · Ruth Sherwood On the Town (8-Dec-1949) · Brunhilde Esterhazy Neptune's Daughter (9-Jun-1949) · Betty Barrett Take Me Out to the Ball Game (9-Mar-1949) · Shirley Delwyn Words and Music (9-Dec-1948) · Peggy Lorgan McNeil Big City (25-Mar-1948) · Shoo Shoo Grady
Author of books:
Betty Garrett and Other Songs: A Life on Stage and Screen (1998, memoir)
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