Elizabeth Ruth Grable was born on December 18, 1916 in St. Louis, Missouri. Her mother Lillian was a stubborn and materialistic woman who was determined to make her daughter a star. Elizabeth, who later became Betty, was enrolled in Clark's Dancing School at the age of three. With her mother's guidance...See full bio »
1997Hidden Hollywood: Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Film Vaults
(TV documentary)
(performer: "Down Argentina Way" - uncredited, "K-K-K-Katy" - uncredited, "Daddy", "You're My Little Pin-Up Girl" - uncredited, "I Can't Begin to Tell You" - uncredited, "You Started Something" - uncredited, "This Is It", "Land on Your Feet")
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Episode #13.11
(1960)
(performer: "The Music Makers" - uncredited, "I've Heard That Song Before" - uncredited, "I Had the Craziest Dream" - uncredited, "You Made Me Love You I Didn't Want to Do It" - uncredited, "Ciri-Biri-Bin" - uncredited)
1956The Girl Can't Help It
(performer: "I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate" - uncredited)
1955Three for the Show
(performer: "How Come you Do Me Like You Do", "Just One Of Those Things", "I've Got A Crush On You", "Down Boy", "I've Been Kissed Before")
1953The Farmer Takes a Wife
(performer: "Today I Love Everybody" 1953 - uncredited, "On the Erie Canal" 1953 - uncredited, "Somethin' Real Special" 1953 - uncredited, "With the Sun Warm Upon Me" 1953 - uncredited, "We're in Business" 1953 - uncredited, "I Could Cook" 1953 - uncredited)
1951Meet Me After the Show
(performer: "MEET ME AFTER THE SHOW", "BETTING ON A MAN", "IT'S A HOT NIGHT IN ALASKA", "NO TALENT JOE", "I FEEL LIKE DANCING", "NIGHT MUSIC")
1951Call Me Mister
(performer: "JAPANESE GIRL LIKE 'MERICAN BOY", "I'M GONNA LOVE THAT GUY LIKE HE'S NEVER BEEN LOVED BEFORE", "I JUST CAN'T DO ENOUGH FOR YOU, BABY", "LOVE IS BACK IN BUSINESS" / "CALL ME MISTER")
1950My Blue Heaven
(performer: "My Blue Heaven" - uncredited, "It's Deductible" - uncredited, "Halloween" - uncredited, "I Love a New Yorker" - uncredited, "Live Hard, Work Hard, Love Hard" - uncredited, "The Friendly Islands" - uncredited, "Don't Rock the Boat, Dear" - uncredited)
1950Wabash Avenue
(performer: "DOWN ON WABASH AVENUE", "I WISH I COULD SHIMMY LIKE MY SISTER KATE" - uncredited, "HONEY MAN MY LITTLE LOVIN' HONEY MAN" - uncredited, "MAY I TEMPT YOU WITH A BIG RED ROSY APPLE?", "BABY WON'T YOU SAY YOU LOVE ME?", "I REMEMBER YOU" - uncredited, "BILLY I ALWAYS DREAM OF BILL" - uncredited, "WILHELMINA")
1948That Lady in Ermine
(lyrics: "There's Something About Midnight" - uncredited / performer: "Ooh! What I'll Do To That Wild Hungarian" - uncredited, "The Melody Has to Be Right" - uncredited, "This Is the Moment" - uncredited)
1947Mother Wore Tights
(performer: "Burlington Bertie from Bow" - uncredited, "You Do", "This Is My Favorite City", "We're a Couple of Broadway Brothers", "Kokomo, Indiana", "Tra-La-La-La" - uncredited, "There's Nothing Like a Song", " Rolling Down Bowling Green On a Little Two-Seat Tandem", "At a Georgia Camp Meeting" - uncredited)
1947The Shocking Miss Pilgrim
(performer: "Changing My Tune" - uncredited, "Stand Up and Fight" - uncredited, "Aren't You Kinda Glad We Did?" - uncredited, "One, Two, Three" - uncredited, "Waltzing Is Better Sitting Down" - uncredited, "For You, for Me, for Evermore" - uncredited / "The Back Bay Polka" - uncredited)
1945The Dolly Sisters
(performer: "Hungarian Dance No. 5 - uncredited, "The Vamp" - uncredited, "I Can't Begin to Tell You" - uncredited, "Give Me the Moonlight, Give Me the Girl" - uncredited, "We Have Been Around" - uncredited, "Carolina in the Morning" - uncredited, "Don't Be Too Old Fashioned Old Fashioned Girl" - uncredited, "Powder, Lipstick and Rouge" - uncredited, "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows", "The Darktown Strutters' Ball" - uncredited, "The Sidewalks of New York" - uncredited)
1945The All-Star Bond Rally
(short)
(performer: "I'll Be Marching to a Love Song" - uncredited)
1945Diamond Horseshoe
(performer: "Welcome to the Diamond Horseshoe" - uncredited, "In Acapulco" - uncredited, "I Wish I Knew" - uncredited, "A Nickel's Worth of Jive" - uncredited, "You'll Never Know" - uncredited, "Shoo Shoo, Baby" - uncredited, "Dessert Finale" - uncredited, "The Old and the New Prelude" - uncredited)
1944Pin Up Girl
(performer: "You're My Little Pin Up Girl" - uncredited, "Don't Carry Tales out of School" - uncredited, "Once Too Often" - uncredited, "The Story of the Very Merry Widow" - uncredited)
1944Four Jills in a Jeep
(performer: "Cuddle Up a Little Closer, Lovey Mine" - uncredited)
1943Sweet Rosie O'Grady
(performer: "My Heart Tells Me Should I Believe My Heart?")
1942Song of the Islands
(performer: "Down on Ami Ami Oni Oni Isle" 1942, "Sing Me a Song of the Islands" 1942, "Maluna Malolo Mawaena Hawaiian Drinking Song" 1942, "O'Brien Has Gone Hawaiian" 1942, "The Lily of Killarney" 1862 - uncredited)
1942Springtime in the Rockies
(performer: "Run, Little Raindrop, Run", "A Poem Set to Music", "Pan American Jubilee")
1942Footlight Serenade
(performer: "Are You Kiddin'?" - uncredited, "I'm Still Crazy for You" - uncredited, "Land on Your Feet" - uncredited, "I Heard the Birdies Sing" - uncredited, "I'll Be Marching to a Love Song" - uncredited)
1941Moon Over Miami
(performer: "What Can I Do For You?" 1941, "Miami Oh Me, Oh Mi-Ami" 1941, "You Started Something" 1941, "Loveliness and Love", "Kindergarten Conga" / "You Started Something" 1941)
1941A Yank in the R.A.F.
(performer: "Hi-Ya, Love" - uncredited, "Another Little Dream Won't Do Us Any Harm" - uncredited)
1940Down Argentine Way
(performer: "Down Argentina Way" 1940 - uncredited, "Two Dreams Met" 1940 - uncredited)
1940Tin Pan Alley
(performer: "K-K-K-Katy" 1918, "Honeysuckle Rose" 1929, "Moonlight and Roses" 1925 - uncredited, "The Sheik of Araby" 1921 - uncredited / producer: "Honeysuckle Rose" 1929, "Moonlight and Roses" 1925 - uncredited)
TV commercial: sang a jingle and husband Harry James demonstrated the strength of Kleenex tissue by playing his trumpet through a Kleenex, in an early 1960s commercial.
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