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Betty Bronson (1906–1971)

Betty Bronson's discovery reads like a Hollywood dream. As a New Jersey teenage bit-player, she was rocketed from obscurity when she was chosen to play the part of Peter Pan in 1924's Peter Pan. She was hand-selected by author J.M. Barrie and beat several Hollywood superstars to the part, most notably Gloria Swanson and Mary Pickford... See full bio »

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Filmography

Hide HideActress (41 titles)
1971 Evel Knievel
Sorority House Mother (uncredited)
 
1968 Blackbeard's Ghost
Old Lady
 
1965 Run for Your Life (TV series)
Alma Sloan
Never Pick Up a Stranger (1965) … Alma Sloan
 
1964 The Naked Kiss
Miss Josephine
 
1964 Grindl (TV series)
Mrs. Clapper
Grindl and the Boodle (1964) … Mrs. Clapper
 
1960-1963 My Three Sons (TV series)
Mrs. Butler / Ruthie Thompson
Total Recall (1963) … Ruthie Thompson
Lonesome George (1960) … Mrs. Butler
 
1962 Who's Got the Action?
Mrs. Boatwright (uncredited)
 
1962 Dr. Kildare (TV series)
Wilma McHenry
Hastings' Farewell (1962) … Wilma McHenry
 
1961 Pocketful of Miracles
Mayor's Wife (uncredited)
 
1956 Lux Video Theatre (TV series)
Member of the Jury
The Night of January Sixteenth (1956) … Member of the Jury
 
1937 Yodelin' Kid from Pine Ridge
Milly Baynum
 
1932 The Midnight Patrol
Ellen Gray
 
1931 Lover Come Back
Vivan Marsh
 
1930 The Medicine Man
Mamie Goltz
 
1929 One Stolen Night
Jeanne
 
1929/I Sonny Boy
Aunt Winigred Canfield
 
1929 Bellamy Trial
Reporter
 
1929 A Modern Sappho
 
1928 The Singing Fool
Grace
 
1928 Companionate Marriage
Sally Williams
 
1927 Brass Knuckles
June Curry
 
1927 Open Range
Lucy Blake
 
1927 Ritzy
Ritzy Brown
 
1927 Paradise for Two
Sally Lane
 
1926 Everybody's Acting
Doris Poole
 
1926 Paradise
Chrissie
 
1926 The Cat's Pajamas
Sally Winton
 
1925 A Kiss for Cinderella
Cinderella (Jane)
 
1925 The Golden Princess
Betty Kent
 
1925 Not So Long Ago
Betty Dover
 
1925 Are Parents People?
Lita Hazlitt
 
1923 Twenty-One (uncredited)
 
1923 The Eternal City
Page (uncredited)
 
1923 His Children's Children (uncredited)
 
1923 The Go-Getter
Bit (uncredited)
 
1923 Java Head
Janet Ammidon
 
1922 Anna Ascends
Bit Part (uncredited)
 
Show ShowSelf (1 title)
1927 A Trip Through the Paramount Studio (documentary short)
Herself
 
Show ShowArchive Footage (2 titles)
1937 Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 1 (documentary short)
Herself
 
1937 Screen Snapshots Series 16, No. 11 (documentary short)
Herself
 

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Personal Details

Other Works:

Stage and television actress.

Height:

5' (1.52 m)
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Did You Know?

Trivia:

Interviewed in "Talking to the Piano Player: Silent Film Stars, Writers and Directors Remember" by Stuart Oderman (BearManor Media). See more »

Star Sign:

Scorpio