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Betty Garrett obituary
14 February 2011 3:13 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Actor and singer known for her role as the Sinatra-chasing taxi driver Brunhilde Esterhazy in On the Town
The most famous role played by the all-round entertainer Betty Garrett, who has died aged 91, was Brunhilde Esterhazy, the taxi driver in Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly's musical On the Town (1949). In the film, she introduces herself to a shy sailor played by Frank Sinatra and asks him: "Why don't you come up to my place?" She is soon vigorously chasing him around her cab, rejecting any of his suggestions about what to see in New York with the rapid retort: "My place!"
In Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949), Garrett had pursued Sinatra with equal zeal, assuring him by singing It's Fate, Baby, It's Fate. She also panted after Red Skelton in Neptune's Daughter (1949), begging him not to leave her apartment with the song Baby, It's Cold Outside. »
- Ronald Bergan
Betty Garrett obituary
14 February 2011 3:13 AM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Actor and singer known for her role as the Sinatra-chasing taxi driver Brunhilde Esterhazy in On the Town
The most famous role played by the all-round entertainer Betty Garrett, who has died aged 91, was Brunhilde Esterhazy, the taxi driver in Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly's musical On the Town (1949). In the film, she introduces herself to a shy sailor played by Frank Sinatra and asks him: "Why don't you come up to my place?" She is soon vigorously chasing him around her cab, rejecting any of his suggestions about what to see in New York with the rapid retort: "My place!"
In Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949), Garrett had pursued Sinatra with equal zeal, assuring him by singing It's Fate, Baby, It's Fate. She also panted after Red Skelton in Neptune's Daughter (1949), begging him not to leave her apartment with the song Baby, It's Cold Outside. »
- Ronald Bergan
Stage And Screen Star Garrett Dies
13 February 2011 3:11 PM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Actress/singer Betty Garrett has died at the age of 91.
The star passed away on Saturday, a day after she was admitted to the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles with heart problems.
Garrett began her career in the 1930s and established herself as a star with a stint in Broadway play Call Me Mister.
The stage performance led her to Hollywood, where she landed roles as Frank Sinatra's love interest in 1949's movie musicals Take Me Out to the Ballgame and On the Town.
But her screen ambitions were cut short after her husband, actor Larry Parks, was blacklisted by Hollywood's top executives for his early membership in the Communist Party.
Garrett managed to revive her career a few years later and starred in 1955 musical My Sister Eileen, and eventually moved into the TV industry, appearing in popular 1970s series All in the Family and Laverne and Shirley.
More recently, she made a cameo in Ted Danson's sitcom Becker, a performance which landed her an Emmy nomination in 2003.
She is survived by her two sons, composer Garrett Parks and actor Andrew Parks. »
R.I.P. Betty Garrett (1919-2011)
13 February 2011 11:32 AM, PST | Scott Feinberg | See recent Scott Feinberg news »
I was saddened to learn this morning that Betty Garrett, the great star of stage, screen, and TV, passed away yesterday at the age of 94 after suffering an aortic aneurysm.
Garrett was one of those rare people — like, say, Jack Valenti — who happened to be a witness to and/or participant in a remarkably high number of historic events of the 20th century. She was a member of Orson Welles’s famed Mercury Theatre company, and was with him on the night that he shook up America with his infamous radio broadcast of “The War of the Worlds” (1938); she was Frank Sinatra’s leading lady in two of the earliest great M-g-m musical-comedies, “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” (1949) and “On the Town” (1949); her career was greatly hurt by the Hollywood Red Scare after her husband, the Oscar nominated actor Larry Parks, refused to name names before the House Committee »
- Scott Feinberg
Actress Betty Garrett Dies at 91
13 February 2011 9:01 AM, PST | E! Online | See recent E! Online news »
Comedic stage and screen actress Betty Garrett passed away Saturday at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center due to an aortic aneurysm. She was 91. Betty was best known for her roles in the musicals On The Town and Take Me Out to the Ballgame, as well as her television work on All in the Family and Laverne & Shirley. She starred onscreen opposite movie legends Frank Sinatra and Red Skelton. The "Baby, It's Cold Outside" singer was blacklisted in Hollywood after her husband, actor Larry Parks, testified about his involvement with the Communist party in 1951. Recently, Betty had been performing one-woman shows and teaching musical-comedy at Theatre West, the North Hollywood nonprofit theater she »
Actress Betty Garrett Dies at 91
13 February 2011 9:01 AM, PST | E! Online - UK | See recent E! Online - UK news »
Comedic stage and screen actress Betty Garrett passed away Saturday at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center due to an aortic aneurysm. She was 91. Betty was best known for her roles in the musicals On The Town and Take Me Out to the Ballgame, as well as her television work on All in the Family and Laverne & Shirley. She starred onscreen opposite movie legends Frank Sinatra and Red Skelton. The "Baby, It's Cold Outside" singer was blacklisted in Hollywood after her husband, actor Larry Parks, testified about his involvement with the Communist party in 1951. Recently, Betty had been performing one-woman shows and teaching musical-comedy at Theatre West, the North Hollywood nonprofit theater she »
Actress Betty Garrett dies at 91
13 February 2011 7:03 AM, PST | Pop2it | See recent Pop2it news »
Betty Garrett, who graced the Broadway stage in numerous productions and also played Frank Sinatra's love interest twice on screen, passed away in Los Angeles, her son Garrett Parks said Sunday (Feb. 13). She was 91 years old and the mostly likely cause of death was an aortic aneurysm, says Parks.
Garrett's two most famous movie roles were in "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" and "On the Town," both in 1949, where she played a girl in love with Frank Sinatra, though she is pictured above in "My Sister Eileen" alongside Jack Lemmon. Her movie career was cut short largely due to her husband, Larry Parks, having to testify in front of Huaac about his brief membership in the communist party. It blacklisted them both.
Betty went on to recur on both "All in the Family" and "Laverne and Shirley" in the 1970s/1980s. Her most recent work included guest-starring roles on "Boston Public, »
- editorial@zap2it.com
7 items from 2011
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