
Betty Garrett
Biography
Betty Garrett (May 23, 1919 - February 12, 2011) was an American actress, comedian, singer and dancer, who starred in several Hollywood musicals and stage roles. She was at the top of her game when the Communist scare in the 1950s brought her career to a screeching, ugly halt. She and her husband Larry Parks, an Oscar-nominated actor, were summoned by the House UnAmerican Activities Committee and questioned about their involvement. As the drama played out, a very pregnant Garrett was never called to testify, but her husband was. With his admission of Communist Party membership from 1941-1945 and refusal to name names, he made it to the Hollywood Blacklist. After the incident, Garrett and Parks worked up nightclub singing/comedy acts along with appearing in legit plays. Although Parks never quite shook off the blacklist incident, he did win a role in John Huston's film, Freud (1962). Garrett went on to appear in roles in many television series.
Filmography

Carol Channing: Larger Than Life

Troupers

Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1940s: Stars, Stripes and Singing

Dark and Stormy Night

Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1920s: The Dawn of the Hollywood Musical

Trail of the Screaming Forehead

Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There

Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer

Frank Sinatra Memorial

The Long Way Home

Jack Lemmon: America's Everyman

That's Entertainment! III

That's Dancing!

All the Way Home

That's Entertainment!

Hollywood: The Dream Factory

The Shadow on the Window

My Sister Eileen

The Costume Designer

On the Town

Neptune's Daughter

Take Me Out to the Ball Game

Words and Music
