Gracie Fields

Filmography. Betty Grable died of lung cancer in 1973 at the age of only 56 and was interred in the Inglewood Park Cemetery in Inglewood, California. Famous Songs. Gradually leaving movies entirely, she made the transition to television, and starred in Las Vegas. She made a final appearance at the Royal Variety Show at the age of eighty in 1978. Zanuck, she tore up her contract with him and stormed out of his office. She did a great deal of charity work, and established a home on the island of Capri. At one point, in the middle of a fight with Darryl F.

She continued recording, but made no more films, moving more towards light classical music as popular tastes changed. Grable's later career was marked by feuds with studio heads, who worked her to exhaustion. After the war, Fields continued her career on a less active basis. In 1943, she married jazz trumpeter and big band leader Harry James. They divorced in 1965. Although she spent much of her time entertaining troops and supporting the war effort outside Britain, this led to a fall-off in her popularity. In 1937, she married another famous child actor, Jackie Coogan, but Coogan was under considerable stress due to his lawsuit against his parents over his earnings, and they divorced in 1940. However because Banks remained an Italian citizen and would have been interned in the United Kingdom, Fields was forced to leave Britain during World War II. Grable finally obtained a role in Whoopee!, starring Eddie Cantor and eventually played in some twenty films by 1939, including the Academy Award-nominated The Gay Divorcee, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.

In 1940 she married film director, Monte Banks, following her divorce from Pitt. It was at this time that she was photographed in the pin-up poster that was so popular among American GIs ten years later. She went on to make films in both England and America. For her next film, her mother tried to get her to sign a contract using false I.D., but when this was discovered, she was fired. Her most famous song, which became her theme, Sally, was worked into the title of her first cinema film, Sally in Our Alley (1931), which was a major box-office hit. For her first role, as a chorus girl in the film Let's Go Places (1930) Grable was legally under the age to act, but because the chorus line performed in blackface, it was impossible to tell how old she was. Fields had a great rapport with her audience, which helped her become one of Britain's highest paid performers. Born in Saint Louis, Missouri, she was propelled into acting by her mother, who insisted that one of her daughters become a star.

She gained a devoted following with a mixture of self-deprecating jokes, comic songs and monologues, as well as cheerful "depression-era" songs all presented in a "no-airs-and-graces" northern, working class style. Ruth Elizabeth "Betty" Grable (December 18, 1916 - July 3, 1973) was an American actress, singer and pin-up girl, whose famous bathing suit poster was an icon of the World War II era. Fields came to major public notice at the Alhambra Theatre in London's West End in 1925, making the first of ten appearances in Royal Variety Shows in 1928. In 1915 she married struggling comic Archie Pitt, who became her manager. Her professional debut in variety took place at the Rochdale Hippodrome theatre in 1910.

Born over a fish and chip shop in Rochdale, in Lancashire, she made her first stage appearance as a child in 1905. Gracie Fields, born Grace Stansfield (January 9, 1898 - September 27, 1979) was a British singer and comedian who became one of the greatest stars of both cinema and music hall. 1945 Paris Underground (U.S.). 1945 Molly and Me (U.S.).

1943 Holy Matrimony (U.S.). 1943 Stage Door Canteen (U.S.). 1939 Shipyard Sally. 1938 Keep Smiling.

1938 We're Going to Be Rich. 1937 The Show Goes On. 1936 Queen of Hearts. 1935 Look Up and Laugh.

1934 Sing as We Go. 1933 Love, Life and Laughter. 1933 This Week of Grace. 1932 Looking on the Bright Side.

1931 Sally in our Alley. The Isle of Capri. Now Is the Hour. Nuns Chorus.

Angels Guard Thee. Christopher Robin is Saying His Prayers. Only a Glass of Champagne. The Biggest Aspidestra in the World.

Wish Me Luck as You Wave Me Goodbye. Sing as We Go. Sally.