page_title: Betty Grable filmography
section_title: Film appearances
hierarchical_section_title: Betty Grable filmography / Credits / Film appearances
caption_attribution_description: English: Betty Grable in Down Argentine Way - trailer (cropped screenshot)
context_page_description: This is a complete filmography of Betty Grable, an American actress, dancer, and singer. As a major contract star for 20th Century-Fox during the 1940s and 1950s, she starred in a succession of musicals and romantic comedies.
  Grable began her career in 1929 at age twelve, after which she was fired from a contract when it was learned she signed up under false identification. She made her film debut in Happy Days as an unbilled extra appearing in blackface. Grable had contracts with RKO Radio Pictures and Paramount Pictures during the 1930s, and she starred in roles as college students in a string of B-movies. In the campus musical Pigskin Parade, she received positive reviews, but her performance was overshadowed by newcomer Judy Garland.
  She eventually came to prominence in the Broadway musical Du Barry Was a Lady and signed an exclusive long-term contract with 20th Century-Fox.
caption: Down Argentine Way (1940)
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