Title:
Star
of
Stage
and
Screen
Artist:
Betty
Garrett
Catalogue
No:
SEPIA
1038
Barcode:
842704003822
Release
Date:
4
October
2004
Betty
Garrett
was
an
established
musical
actress
on
Broadway
(starring
in
the
1946
hit
show
“Call
Me
Mister”
where
she
introduced
“South
America,
Take
It
Away”)
when
MGM
beckoned.
Fans
of
Hollywood
musicals
will
remember
her
in
films
such
as
“Words
And
Music”,
“Take
Me
Out
To
The
Ball
Game”,
“Neptune’s
Daughter”
and
the
classic
“On
The
Town”
where
she
played
Brunhilde
Esterhazy,
the
man-chasing
taxi
driver.
Married
to
actor
Larry
Parks
(star
of
“The
Jolson
Story”),
the
late
1940s
were
good
for
Betty
and
Larry.
They
were
popular
and
made
many
films
but
in
1951
Larry
Parks
admitted
he
had
been
a
Communist.
From
that
day
onwards
the
couple
were
shunned
and
blacklisted.
The
film
offers
dried
up
so
the
couple
toured
Britain
with
their
act
and
headlined
The
London
Palladium
where
they
scored
a
great
success
with
the
British
public.
They
toured
Britain
4
times.
It
took
Betty
Garrett
20
years
to
recover
from
this
setback.
In
1973
she
joined
the
cast
of
TV’s
“All
in
the
Family”,
the
American
version
of
the
British
“Till
Death
Do
Us
Apart”,
where
she
remained
for
3
years
before
moving
to
another
TV
hit
show,
“Laverne
and
Shirley”
in
1976.
In
1989
Betty
returned
to
Broadway
starring
in
the
stage
musical
of
“Meet
Me
In
St.
Louis”
and
was
recently
seen
in
the
2001
Broadway
production
of
“Follies”.
The
28
tracks
on
this
CD
were
recorded
between
1947
and
1953.
We
have
included
standards
and
novelty
numbers;
songs
from
her
films;
her
only
US
Top
Ten
hit
-
Buttons
and
Bows;
and
the
duets
with
Larry
Parks,
Gene
Kelly
and
Jimmy
Durante.
This
is
the
first
Betty
Garrett
solo
CD
and
almost
all
of
the
tracks
are
appearing
on
CD
for
the
first
time.
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