Betty Real
- Actress
Born Dorothea Elizabeth Brown in Portland, Maine, she started her
career with her 3 aunts, Dot, Muriel & Eldra (she took her mother's
place after her untimely death in an auto accident), as "The Four
Chapman Sisters" locally and then went on to New York City where they
worked on the Keith & Orpheum Circuit as "The Four Eddy Sisters", and
"The Four Real Sisters". She took the stage name of Betty Real and went
on to star in the "Ziegfeld Follies". She was a featured dancer in "Hot
Cha" with Hal Le Roy, 'Mitzi Mayfield' & Bert Lahr. She was also one of only two
women to lead an all male band, "Betty Real and her Rhythm Boys". She
made the cover of Billboard Magazine in March 28, 1936! Also featured
in her band was trumpet player Andy Pine (her uncle and husband to Dot
Chapman Pine). She was under contract with Warner Brothers and made
several films, one in particular with Claude Raines titled: _Crime
Without Passion (1934)_, and did several ads for Palmolive Soap and
Camel cigarettes.