Betty Lawford

Betty Lawford

Nacimiento : 1912-02-01, London, England, UK

Muerte : 1960-11-20

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Betty Lawford (February 1, 1912 – November 20, 1960) was a United States-based English film and stage actress. Her parents, Ernest Lawford and Janet Slater Lawford, were also actors, and she was a cousin of the actor and socialite Peter Lawford. Lawford's stage debut came in a Players' Club production of Henry IV. She followed that with appearances in Julius Caesar and The Lady Lies. Her Broadway credits include Glamour Preferred (1940), Walk With Music (1940), The Women (1936), There's Wisdom in Women (1935), Heat Wave (1931), The Lady Lies (1928), and King Henry IV, Part I (1926). She was briefly married to the American actor-director Monta Bell. She died at Roosevelt Hospital, Manhattan, following an illness of three weeks.

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Betty Lawford

Películas

Autostop al infierno
Agnes Smith
Un viajante de comercio que regresa de una fiesta, habiendo bebido unas copas, recoge a un autoestopista en la carretera. El joven no sabe que en realidad su pasajero es un delincuente muy peligroso que acaba de cometer un crimen.
Tres días de amor y fe
Betty Lawford
Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). Dakota (Terry), un soldado que está de permiso en Nueva York, visita la famosa Stage Door Canteen (título original del film), un local de Broadway donde célebres artistas entretenían a los soldados que volvían del frente. Dakota y sus amigos, Tex (Sunset Carson) y California (Lon McAllister), caen rendidos ante los encantos de Eileen (Cheryl Walker), Jean (Marjorie Riordan) y Ella Sue (Margaret Early). Artistas del calibre de Katharine Hepburn, Merle Oberon, George Raft, Johnny Weismuller, Ralph Bellamy o Harpo Marx llenan el local, en el que actúan las bandas de Xavier Cugat, Count Basie y Benny Goodman.
Stolen Holiday
Helen Tuttle
A young model is set up with her own fashion business by a crooked financier, who sells worthless bonds.
Criminal Lawyer
Betty Walker
Barry Brandon, a criminal lawyer, visits the night club of Denny Larkin, his primary client, with Betty Walker, a spoiled society girl. The police raid the club and Brandon pleads that the whole group is guilty, just to get even with Larkin for a rebuke. On the same night in court, Madge Carter is on trial for disorderly conduct, and Brandon volunteers to defend her, and proves the case against her if a frame-up. Finding that she is penniless, Brandon hires her as his secretary, and falls in love with her. Brandon is appointed district attorney and has ambitions of becoming the state governor. Having dinner at Betty's home, she maneuvers him, while he is drunk, into marrying her. Later, Madge is a witness when Larkin shoots down a fellow gangster. By threatening Brandon's life, he forces her to commit perjury at his trial, and say he fired in self-defense. Brandon, the prosecuting attorney (who has had his marriage to Betty annulled) knows she is lying but doesn't know why.
Love Before Breakfast
Countess Jane Campanella
Scott is a very rich businessman who hangs out with a snooty, silly Countess, but has the hots for Kay who is already engaged to Bill. Scott pursues Kay like crazy, going so far as to buy Bill's oil company so that he can banish him to Japan, leaving Kay unmoored.
The Human Side
Alma Hastings
The story of a theatrical producer, his divorced wife and their four children.
Gallant Lady
Cynthia Haddon
Unwed mother gives up baby for adoption and hopes to get it back when the adoptive mother dies.
Berkeley Square
Marjorie Frant
A young American man is transported back to London in the time of the American Revolution and meets his ancestors.
The Monkey's Paw
Rose
A mother wishes for the return of her dead son, a wish that is granted by the severed paw of a dead monkey.
Secrets of a Secretary
Sylvia Merritt
Society girl becomes a social secretary when her father dies penniless. From a story by Charles Brackett.
Old English
Phyllis
An old man unethically provides an income for his two grandchildren.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Mary Watson
The Return of Sherlock Holmes was the first sound film to feature Sherlock Holmes.
Lucky In Love
Michael O'More, an American who lives in Ireland with his uncle, a horsetrainer for the Earl of Balkerry, loves Lady Mary Cardigan, granddaughter of the Earl. He finds a rival in Capt. Brian Fitzroy, a rake who intends to buy the impoverished earl's castle and marry Lady Mary. After nearly killing Fitzroy in a brawl over Lady Mary, Michael flees to the United States. There he becomes financially secure when department store magnate Abe Feinberg offers him a job. Feinberg commissions Michael to establish a linen mill on the earl's estate. He and Mary, who is in the United States evading Fitzroy, return to Ireland and marry.
Gentlemen Of The Press
Dorothy Snell Hanley
A newsman is drawn away from family life by the needs of his paper until a new woman enters his life.