She left 47 years ago today and is still the most beautiful pin up girl there ever was. She was very talented. A good actress(she didn't think much of her acting) A good singer and dancer. You are so missed Miss Grable! Thank you for all the films you left behind.
@@Marcfj No you have got to be kidding! Her legs were insured by 20th Century Fox for $1 million dollars. For 10 years she reigned amount the top 10 box office stars. That bathing suit poster made her the number one pin-up girl of WW2 surpassing Rita Hayworth. in addition the poster was the most requested by G.I.s stationed overseas. Do you know Life Magazine included that poster in their 100 photographs that changed the world project. She was a BIG DEAL in her day. And as far as I am concern she still is. These nothing actresses and stars of the moment have nothing on her. Or Rita Hayworth for that matter.
@@voicegirl555 - Tell your story to Scandinavians and they will laugh at you. Bottom-line, I live in the real world and have been to over seventy-five countries and the most beautiful women with the most anatomically perfect legs are to be found in Scandinavia. Hence, nobody would have given Betty Grable a second look on the streets of Stockholm.
@@voicegirl555 - I seriously doubt that millions of fans of Betty Grable truly believe that she had the most beautiful legs. On the other hand, Scandinavian women are known for their beauty and extraordinarily beautiful legs. American women? UGH!
I love the eye for detail in these musicals. Notice how the choreographer runs down the stage to talk to the producer: the light tripping steps of an ex-dancer.
Lovely Betty Grable! A good actress! Better than she thought! A good singer! The most beautiful Pin Up Girl Ever! Those lucky GIs'!!! Gone 46 years! Never Never Forgotten!!!!!!
Thanks greg,Betty has been my favorite musical star for 40 some years now,she was beautiful and classy without being a diva,I was 13 when she passed,thank God for DVD and youtube,of course for these great memories!
i was born in 1975. i'm not very familiar with black and white TV shows other than i love lucy and the three stooges, so i went on youtube just to see whats so impressive about Betty Grable, and WOW!!! she did not disappoint.
+StormLaker1975 She had her legs insured for a million dollars, which was a lot of money at the time... She had their imprint pressed in cement at Grauman's Theater, rather than the usual footprints.
+Paul Cwick (Shveek) Women these days got nothing on the likes of Betty Grable, Greta Garbo, Lauren Bacall, and all the old school classy women of Hollywood.
+Frida García I'm not sure, but I **think** the animation on that was done by Hanna-Barbera, who later did similar animation-effects with Gene Kelly in "On The Town" and "Anchors Away" and I think one or two of his others.
@@esmeephillips5888 Hardest of all had to be the animated sequence in "Invitation to the Dance," in which Kelly had to dance with an animated serpent. Animating a non-biped figure like a serpent to "dance" along with Kelly could not have been easy... (The animator who did the segment-whose name I forget-said it was the toughest assignment he'd ever had in his career.)
@@MrPGC137 I can believe it. Pity the end product was such a misfire and tanked Gene's upward trajectory. What Fred called 'inventing up to the arty', a tragedy of good intentions.
This was her last b&w film. Blondes always photographed well in three-pack Technicolor, and Zanuck promised she could have it as long as she was contracted to 20th. The grosses on this one clinched it, particularly because she was shouldering the burden of two plank-like leading men, Payne and Mature. Her vicissitudes had been extraordinary: Sam Goldwyn had dropped her (twice), as had RKO. Her break came at 23 and only because Alice Faye had to quit 'Down Argentine Way'. Betty battled on and became a Top Ten star for a decade, including four years as Numero Uno. More proof that in Tinseltown nobody knows anything.
This is truly the sight and sound of the Greatest Generation. When swing began to take over musicals, a new confidence infused them. No more 'Forgotten Man' or Fred & Ginger glimpses of top-hatted high society. Betty Grable's (literally) punchy delivery, seasoned with good humor, makes her the right pinup for GIs advancing through Asian jungles and occupied Europe: the democratic arbiters of the planet's destiny. In unpretentious movies such as these- more than in the pomposities of 'Wilson' and the like, which Darryl Zanuck sponsored, while dismissing Betty as a cash cow to subsidize them- you can hear the soundtrack of the USA's irresistible rise to world domination. For better or worse, it was turning its back on isolation. Movies and records were the advance guard for political dominance: from Benny Goodman to Major Glenn Miller in a few short years. As Andrew Breitbart said, politics is downstream of culture. Hollywood had laid the ground for conquest by wowing the planet.
I own a few old antiques. It amazes me when I think that when they made this production the stuff I own was very old fashioned even to them at the time.
There is a poignant story about Grable letting Monroe take over her star dressing room on 'How To Marry a Millionaire', saying 'Honey, it's your turn now.'
The shadow with a life of its own is from Fred Astaire's and Hermes Pan's 'Bojangles of Harlem' in 'Swing Time', but is amusingly developed by Pan. Betty Grable's abilities, like Ruby Keeler's, are easy to fault but her personality overcomes such carping. At the height of her success, nobody liked her but the public. Few performers have been so consistently put down by snobby critics, and when she went into wartime flagwavers the brows arched even higher. Later, the press gloated about how she was slipping and being upstaged by such now-forgotten novices as Sheree North. She came up the very hard way, worked her tail off and was grateful for her rewards. Had she not died before she was 60, she might have been part of the same revival of enthusiasm for gals with pizazz that Ann Miller worked so well.
Hermes Pan was to have made his acting debut as the show's choreographer, but he was famously self-effacing and excused himself by saying he was too busy behind the scenes. (Grable was lazy about learning and rehearsing routines.) However he did partner her on screen in the 'Land on Your Feet' number, and they became buddies. Pan would probably have had as much trouble schooling Alice Faye: the first choice as the lead before she got pregnant, and who had already embarked on her feud with Zanuck at Fox. Remarkably, Betty was only second-billed behind the anodyne John Payne.
Their video is beautiful and I have included it in the "Album of the movie Stars, thank you to share it, it can look for it in Internet writing "Album de las Estrellas de Cine" or "Tribute Actress Famous" or "Banco de Cine" and look for in the alphabet of the ALBUM for the initial letter of the star of this videotape B BE nº 81 here their videotape are. Up in it paginates it where their video is there is a connection to "Listado de Honor" make click and once inside of it pulses in the LISTING of HONOR of the center, the name of its CHANNEL is already logged, congratulation and thank you.
Multichannel recording for movie soundtracks started in the mid-1930s and was quite common by now. Had it not been for WW2, cinemas would probably have been equipped for stereo sound and record companies would have begun to issue LPs a decade before they did. As it was, Disney's 'Fantasound' (1940) for 'Fantasia' was a lone pioneer. Technical advances, such as 3D and anamorphic, were in the works before Pearl Harbor but got put on ice while scientists concentrated on beating Hitler and Hirohito. Besides, movie audiences were so huge (and undiscriminating, according to Betty's critics) until TV, another wartime casualty, came back that there was no need to woo them with innovations.
