Hermione Gingold

Her autobiography "How to Grow Old Disgracefully" was published in 1988. 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. She is quoted as saying, "Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue." She died of heart problems and pneumonia in 1987. Gradually leaving movies entirely, she made the transition to television, and starred in Las Vegas. She was a regular guest on television talk shows, especially Jack Paar's, where audiences loved her stories. Zanuck, she tore up her contract with him and stormed out of his office. In 1977, with conductor Karl Bohm, she won a Grammy Award for Best Album for Children for Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf and Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the Animals. At one point, in the middle of a fight with Darryl F.

Armfeldt, which she reprised on film. Grable's later career was marked by feuds with studio heads, who worked her to exhaustion. Gingold played the mayor's snooty wife Eulalie Mackechnie Shinn in The Music Man (1962), starring Robert Preston and Shirley Jones and was part of the original 1973 Broadway cast of A Little Night Music in the role of Mme. In 1943, she married jazz trumpeter and big band leader Harry James. They divorced in 1965. She also performed in the Broadway show "Oh Dad, Poor Dad...Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad" in 1963. 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. She sang "I Remember it Well" with Maurice Chevalier. 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.

She won a Golden Globe Award in the 1958 movie Gigi for her role as Madame Alvarez, a retired Paris courtesan, who was Gigi's grandmother and mentor. It was at this time that she was photographed in the pin-up poster that was so popular among American GIs ten years later. Gingold was introduced to US servicemen during World War II through the London revue "Sweet and Low." After moving to the United States in 1951, Gingold became a great success there as well. 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. They were to divorce in the 1940s. 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. After her divorce in 1926, she married writer and lyricist Eric Maschwitz. Born in Saint Louis, Missouri, she was propelled into acting by her mother, who insisted that one of her daughters become a star.

She married British publisher Michael Joseph in 1918, with whom she had two sons, Stephen and Leslie. 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. In the 1930s, her quirky, ribald comedic sense became famous through musical revues. First appearing on stage in 1909, she was originally a coloratura soprano and performed in Shakespearean dramas such as "The Merchant of Venice" and "Troilus and Cressida" and worked with Charles Hawtrey as an understudy. Born Hermione Ferdinanda Gingold in London, she was the daughter of an high-class Austrian financier and an English housewife.

She appeared on stage, on radio, in films, on television, and in recordings. Hermione Gingold (December 9, 1897-May 24, 1987) was an English actress known for her sharp-tongued, eccentric persona, an image enhanced by her sharp nose and chin, as well as her deepening voice, a result of vocal nodes which her mother encouraged her not to remove.