Betty Grable
American actress and pin-up girl (1916-1973) · United States · On the map · Actors · Died at 56
Elizabeth Ruth Grable was an American actress, pin-up girl, dancer, model, and singer. Her 42 films during the 1930s and 1940s grossed more than $100 million, and for 10 consecutive years (1942-1951) she placed among the Quigley Poll's top 10 box office stars.
Betty Grable is read about 1,272 times a day, in 44 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 6 November 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 400 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?A life in dates
The Carol Burnett ShowSeries1964
The Hollywood PalaceSeries1962
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny CarsonSeries1957
The Lucy-Desi Comedy HourSeries, Betty Grable1956
The Dinah Shore Chevy ShowSeries1955
How to Be Very, Very PopularFilm, Stormy Tornado1953
The OscarsSeries1951
Meet Me After the ShowFilm, Delilah Lee1950
What's My Line?Series
Wabash AvenueFilm, 1950Ruby Summers1948
The Ed Sullivan ShowSeries
That Lady in ErmineFilm, 1948Francesca / Angelina1946
Do You Love MeFilm, Barry's Fan in Taxi1944
Four Jills in a JeepFilm, Betty Grable1943
Coney IslandFilm, Kate Farley1941
A Yank in the R.A.F.Film, Carol Brown1938
College SwingFilm, Betty1935
The NitwitsFilm, Mary Roberts1934
The Gay DivorceeFilm, Guest1932
The Age of ConsentFilm, Student at Dormitory (uncredited)1930
Whoopee!Film, Goldwyn Girl (uncredited)1916Born18 December 1916Known for
View all 40 titles
I Wake Up Screaming 1941
Follow the Fleet 1936
The Gay Divorcee 1934
How to Marry a Millionaire 1953
Cavalcade 1933
People around Betty
Darryl F. Zanuck Produced Down Argentine Way (1940)
Alfred Newman Wrote How to Marry a Millionaire (1954)
Irving Cummings Directed Down Argentine Way (1940)
Walter Lang Directed When My Baby Smiles at Me (1948)
George Jessel Produced When My Baby Smiles at Me (1948)
William LeBaron Produced Springtime in the Rockies (1942)
William Perlberg Produced The Shocking Miss Pilgrim (1947)- Cyril J. Mockridge Wrote How to Marry a Millionaire (1954)
Mark Sandrich Directed The Gay Divorcee and Follow the Fleet
Samuel Goldwyn Produced The Kid from Spain (1932)
George Seaton Directed The Shocking Miss Pilgrim (1947)
Reginald Gardiner Also in The Dolly Sisters (1945)
Pandro S. Berman Produced The Gay Divorcee and Follow the Fleet
Robert Ellis Wrote Footlight Serenade and Do You Love Me
John Payne Also in The Dolly Sisters and College Swing
Victor Mature Also in I Wake Up Screaming and Wabash Avenue
Dan Dailey Also in When My Baby Smiles at Me (1948)
Martha Raye Also in Four Jills in a Jeep and College Swing
Dick Haymes Also in The Shocking Miss Pilgrim (1947)
Gregory Ratoff Directed Footlight Serenade and Do You Love Me
H. Bruce Humberstone Directed I Wake Up Screaming and Pin Up Girl
George Archainbaud Directed Thrill of a Lifetime (1937)- Harry Joe Brown Produced Moon Over Miami and Hold 'Em Jail
Benjamin Stoloff Directed Happy Days and Don't Turn 'Em Loose
Parents
Betty GrablePartners
Is this everyone?
Only relatives with a profile here are drawn, so a family can be larger than this. A line here can also be wrong.
Correct this familyFilmography 40
111 credits on file
Television 8
Media & music
Photos 11
Publicity photo (1935)
Grable in a scene from Down Argentine Way (1940)
Grable in the film Tin Pan Alley (1940)
Grable on the cover of Screenland, August 1942
Grable and Carmen Miranda in hit Springtime in the Rockies (1942)
Grable's iconic over-the-shoulder pose from 1943 was a World War II bestseller, showing off her "Million Dollar Legs".
Grable with Marilyn Monroe (left) and Lauren Bacall (right) in How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)Awards
About this person
The U.S. Treasury Department listed her as the highest-salaried American woman in 1946 and 1947, and she earned more than $3 million during her career.
