Betty Bartley
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Betty Bartley | |
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| Born | November 12, 1922 |
| Died | September 10, 2013 (aged 90) |
| Occupation | Actress |
Betty Bartley Nannariello (November 12, 1922 – September 10, 2013), known professionally as Betty Bartley, was an American television and film actress. She began her career as a child actor and continued in film, television, and stage performances including appearances in early talkies,[1] including The Laughing Lady.[2] Illustrator McClelland Barclay chose her in 1941 as the Ideal Streamlined Ziegfeld Girl.[3]
Betty Bartley was born on November 12, 1922.[4] Her mother, Elenor Marie McGraw (1892–1956), was the daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth McGraw of Seneca, New York.[5][6] Her mother first married Hugh Bartley and lived in Belle Harbor, Queens,[7] and then married Charles Devaney in 1933.[5][6][8] She lived her married life in Belle Harbor and the Rockaways, New York until her death in October 1956.[5][6] Bartley began acting as a child,[1] appearing in the talkie film The Laughing Lady in 1929.[2]
Career
In 1939 and 1940, she appeared in the Broadway musical revue The Streets of Paris.[9] Bartley was then a dancer in an Ed Wynn Broadway production in 1941.[3] She starred in a production of Three Men on a Horse at the Westchester Playhouse in 1946.[10] Her television performances before 1951 were on the shows Studio One, Man Against Crime, and Sure As Fate. In 1951, she was in the Broadway play Twentieth Century.[11] She was among the cast of the traveling production of Twin Beds in 1954.[12] In 1959, she starred in Bert Lahr's stage production of DuBarry Was a Lady.[13]
Over the course of her career, she had appeared in films and stage productions with Maurice Chevalier, Fredric March, Ed Wynn, Nancy Carroll, and Abbott and Costello.[14]