Betsy Blair
Betsy Blair -December 11, 1923 – March 13, 2009) was an American actress of film and stage, long based in London. Blair pursued a career in entertainment from the age of eight, and as a child worked as an amateur dancer, performed on radio, and worked as a model, before joining the chorus of Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe in 1940. There she met Gene Kelly. They were married the following year, when she was seventeen years old. The couple divorced sixteen years later, in 1957. After work in the theatre, Blair began her film career playing supporting roles in films such as A Double Life (1947) and Another Part of the Forest (1948). Her interest in Marxism led to an investigation by the House Un-American Activities Committee and Blair was blacklisted for some time, but resumed her career with a critically acclaimed performance in Marty (1955), winning a BAFTA Award and a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She continued her career with regular theatre, film and television work until the mid 1990s.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 7.43 |
Birthday | 1923-12-11 |
Place of Birth | Cliffside Park, New Jersey, USA |
Also Known As | Elizabeth Winifred Boger, Betsy Boger, Бетси Блэр, |
1988
Betrayed
6/120
An FBI agent posing as a combine driver becomes romantically involved with a Midwest farmer who lives a double life as a white supremacist.
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Betrayed
1957
The Halliday Brand
6.1/9
Sheriff Halliday doesn't approve of his children dating or marrying half-breeds and his blind hate threatens to alienate his whole family.
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The Halliday Brand
1957
Il Grido
7.551/138
A sugar-refinery worker flees his Northern Italy town after a woman refuses his marriage proposal.
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Il Grido
1947
A Double Life
6.246/65
A Shakespearian actor starring as Othello opposite his wife finds the character's jealous rage taking over his mind off-stage.
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A Double Life
1962
All Night Long
6.8/28
Over the course of one eventful evening, the anniversary celebration of the musical and romantic partners Aurelius Rex and Delia Lane, a jealous, ambi...
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All Night Long
1948
The Snake Pit
7.036/97
Virginia Cunningham is confused upon finding herself in a mental hospital, with no memory of her arrival at the institution. Tormented by delusions an...
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The Snake Pit
1955
Marty
7.445/364
Marty, a butcher who lives in the Bronx with his mother is unmarried at 34. Good-natured but socially awkward he faces constant badgering from family...
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Marty
1947
The Guilt of Janet Ames
5.6/13
A hard-drinking reporter tries to help the embittered widow of the soldier who had saved his life during the war.
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The Guilt of Janet Ames
1973
A Delicate Balance
5.8/8
In their nice Connecticut home, Agnes and Tobias have grown used to the imperfection and fragility of their marriage. Quietly nursing their grief over...
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A Delicate Balance
1950
Mystery Street
6.7/49
When a young woman's skeletal remains turn up on a Massachusetts beach, Barnstable cop Peter Moralas teams with Boston police and uses forensics, with...
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Mystery Street
1986
Descent Into Hell
4.6/32
The marriage of the famous writer Alan and his young wife Lola is in a crisis. On a vacation in Haiti Lola wants to decide if their relationship still...
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Descent Into Hell
2003
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
7/6
Broadway: The Golden Age is the most important, ambitious and comprehensive film ever made about America's most celebrated indigenous art form. Award...
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Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
1951
Kind Lady
7/10
Mary Herries has a passion for art and fine furniture. Even though she is getting on in years, she enjoys being around these priceless articles. One d...
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Kind Lady
1962
Careless
7.4/8
Emilio Brentani leads a peaceful and uneventful life with his older sister Amalia. Until he meets Angiolina Zarri, a beautiful but fickle, wayward and...
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Careless
1960
The Dolphins
6.5/13
An acid portrait of Italian youth at the time, I DELFINI follows a dreary season of discontent and viciousness in the lives of a thoroughly unpleasant...
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The Dolphins
1956
Main Street
6.276/78
A small town in Spain, October 1955. Isabel, a 35-year-old dreamer who feels like a failure because she is not married yet, becomes the new target of...
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Main Street
1950
No Way Out
6.9/90
Two hoodlum brothers are brought into a hospital for gunshot wounds, and when one of them dies the other accuses their black doctor of murder.
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No Way Out
1968
Marry Me! Marry Me!
4.8/4
Claude and Isabella met on a beach one summer and got easily involved. But while he has dreams of settling down with a family, she just wants to have...
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Marry Me! Marry Me!
1986
Flight of the Spruce Goose
0/0
Drama starring Karen Black, Betsy Blair and Dennis Christopher
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Flight of the Spruce Goose
2002
Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer
7.7/6
American Masters Series. Documentary on Gene Kelly that gives insight into his dancing, how he formed a style (first "blue collar dancer") and develop...
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Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer
1956
Meeting in Paris
1/1
A wealthy young American woman is suddenly cut off by her father while living in Paris. A philosopher, she tries to make a living as a guide in the ca...
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Meeting in Paris
1948
Another Part of the Forest
7.6/11
This 'prequel' to The Little Foxes tells how the ruthless members of the old-South Hubbard family got that way.
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Another Part of the Forest
1987
Suspicion
5/2
A powerfully tense remake of the Alfred Hitchcock classic, this British production of SUSPICION boasts a dynamic cast, making it a worthy descendent o...
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Suspicion
1969
De Bom (of het wanhoopskomitee)
0/0
One day a garage owner finds an atomic bomb that has been lost by an airplane. He hides the bomb and shakes the country when he announces that he will...
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De Bom (of het wanhoopskomitee)
1960
Lies My Father Told Me
0/0
In a working-class Jewish family in Dublin, a young boy becomes increasingly close to an old orthodox Jew and assimilates his views, much to the disma...
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Lies My Father Told Me
1988
Marcus Welby, M.D.: A Holiday Affair
0/0
Robert Young brings his Marcus Welby alter ego to television for one last time. Having retired, the good doctor takes a trip to Europe alone and falls...
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