
Betsy Blair
Betsy Blair -December 11, 1923 – March 13, 2009) was an American actress of film and stage, long based in London. Blair pursued a career in entertainment from the age of eight, and as a child worked as an amateur dancer, performed on radio, and worked as a model, before joining the chorus of Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe in 1940. There she met Gene Kelly. They were married the following year, when she was seventeen years old. The couple divorced sixteen years later, in 1957. After work in the theatre, Blair began her film career playing supporting roles in films such as A Double Life (1947) and Another Part of the Forest (1948). Her interest in Marxism led to an investigation by the House Un-American Activities Committee and Blair was blacklisted for some time, but resumed her career with a critically acclaimed performance in Marty (1955), winning a BAFTA Award and a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She continued her career with regular theatre, film and television work until the mid 1990s.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 0.007 |
Birthday | 1923-12-11 |
Place of Birth | Cliffside Park, New Jersey, USA |
Also Known As | Elizabeth Winifred Boger, Betsy Boger, Бетси Блэр, |

1988

Betrayed
6/125
An FBI agent posing as a combine driver becomes romantically involved with a Midwest farmer who lives a double life as a white supremacist.
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Betrayed

1957

The Halliday Brand
6.1/9
Sheriff Halliday doesn't approve of his children dating or marrying half-breeds and his blind hate threatens to alienate his whole family.
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The Halliday Brand

1957

Il Grido
7.5/147
A sugar-refinery worker flees his Northern Italy town after a woman refuses his marriage proposal.
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Il Grido

1947

A Double Life
6.338/68
A Shakespearian actor starring as Othello opposite his wife finds the character's jealous rage taking over his mind off-stage.
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A Double Life

1962

All Night Long
6.7/32
Over the course of one eventful evening, the anniversary celebration of the musical and romantic partners Aurelius Rex and Delia Lane, a jealous, ambi...
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All Night Long

1948

The Snake Pit
7.1/102
Virginia Cunningham is confused upon finding herself in a mental hospital, with no memory of her arrival at the institution. Tormented by delusions an...
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The Snake Pit

1955

Marty
7.4/396
Marty, a butcher who lives in the Bronx with his mother is unmarried at 34. Good-natured but socially awkward he faces constant badgering from family...
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Marty

1947

The Guilt of Janet Ames
5.6/13
A hard-drinking reporter tries to help the embittered widow of the soldier who had saved his life during the war.
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The Guilt of Janet Ames

1973

A Delicate Balance
6.1/10
In their finely appointed Connecticut home, Agnes and Tobias have grown used to the imperfection and fragility of their marriage. Quietly nursing thei...
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A Delicate Balance

1950

Mystery Street
6.76/52
When a young woman's skeletal remains turn up on a Massachusetts beach, Barnstable cop Peter Moralas teams with Boston police and uses forensics, with...
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Mystery Street

1986

Descent Into Hell
4.6/35
The marriage of the famous writer Alan and his young wife Lola is in a crisis. On a vacation in Haiti Lola wants to decide if their relationship still...
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Descent Into Hell

2003

Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
7/6
Broadway: The Golden Age is the most important, ambitious and comprehensive film ever made about America's most celebrated indigenous art form. Award...
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Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There

1956

Main Street
6.233/118
A small town in Spain, October 1955. Isabel, a 35-year-old dreamer who feels like a failure because she is not married yet, becomes the new target of...
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Main Street

1960

Lies My Father Told Me
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In a working-class Jewish family in Dublin, a young boy becomes increasingly close to an old orthodox Jew and assimilates his views, much to the disma...
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Lies My Father Told Me

1951

Kind Lady
7/10
Mary Herries has a passion for art and fine furniture. Even though she is getting on in years, she enjoys being around these priceless articles. One d...
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Kind Lady

1962

Careless
7.4/8
Emilio Brentani leads a peaceful and uneventful life with his older sister Amalia. Until he meets Angiolina Zarri, a beautiful but fickle, wayward and...
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Careless

1960

The Dolphins
6.5/13
An acid portrait of Italian youth at the time, I DELFINI follows a dreary season of discontent and viciousness in the lives of a thoroughly unpleasant...
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The Dolphins

1988

Marcus Welby, M.D.: A Holiday Affair
0/0
Robert Young brings his Marcus Welby alter ego to television for one last time. Having retired, the good doctor takes a trip to Europe alone and falls...
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Marcus Welby, M.D.: A Holiday Affair

1950

No Way Out
6.9/95
Two hoodlum brothers are brought into a hospital for gunshot wounds, and when one of them dies the other accuses their black doctor of murder.
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No Way Out

1968

Marry Me! Marry Me!
5/5
Claude and Isabella met on a beach one summer and got easily involved. But while he has dreams of settling down with a family, she just wants to have...
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Marry Me! Marry Me!

1986

Flight of the Spruce Goose
0/0
Drama starring Karen Black, Betsy Blair and Dennis Christopher
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Flight of the Spruce Goose

2002

Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer
7.7/6
American Masters Series. Documentary on Gene Kelly that gives insight into his dancing, how he formed a style (first "blue collar dancer") and develop...
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Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer

1956

Meeting in Paris
1/1
A wealthy young American woman is suddenly cut off by her father while living in Paris. A philosopher, she tries to make a living as a guide in the ca...
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Meeting in Paris

1948

Another Part of the Forest
7.6/11
This 'prequel' to The Little Foxes tells how the ruthless members of the old-South Hubbard family got that way.
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Another Part of the Forest

1987

Suspicion
5/2
A powerfully tense remake of the Alfred Hitchcock classic, this British production of SUSPICION boasts a dynamic cast, making it a worthy descendent o...
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Suspicion

1969

De Bom (of het wanhoopskomitee)
0/0
One day a garage owner finds an atomic bomb that has been lost by an airplane. He hides the bomb and shakes the country when he announces that he will...
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