page_title: Betty Grable
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Betty Grable / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: Betty Grable's daughters Victoria and Elizabeth watch as their mother rehearses for the premiere of the television program A Shower of Stars. This was also Grable's first time on television.
context_page_description: Elizabeth Ruth Grable was an American actress, pin-up girl, dancer, model, and singer. Her 42 films during the 1930s and 1940s grossed more than $100 million, for 10 consecutive years she reigned in the Quigley Poll's Top 10 box office stars. The U.S. Treasury Department in 1946 and 1947 listed her as the highest-salaried American woman; she earned more than $3 million during her career.
  Grable began her film career in 1929 at age 12, after which she was fired from a contract when it was learned she signed up under false identification. She had contracts with RKO and Paramount Pictures during the 1930s, and appeared in a string of B movies, mostly portraying college students. Grable came to prominence in the Broadway musical DuBarry Was a Lady, which brought her to the attention of 20th Century-Fox.
  She replaced Alice Faye in Down Argentine Way, her first major Hollywood film, and became Fox's biggest film star throughout the remaining decade. Fox cast Grable in a succession of Technicolor musicals during the decade that were immensely popular, co-starring with such leading men as Victor Mature, Don Ameche, John Payne, and Tyrone Power.
context_section_description: Grable married former child actor Jackie Coogan in 1937. He was under considerable stress from a lawsuit against his parents over his childhood earnings, and the couple divorced in 1939.
  In 1943, she married trumpeter Harry James. They had two daughters, Victoria Elizabeth "Vicki" Bivens (born 1944) and Jessica Yahner (1947-2016). Their marriage, which lasted for 22 years, was rife with alcoholism and infidelity before they divorced in 1965.
  Grable entered into a relationship with dancer Bob Remick, 27 years her junior, with whom she remained until she died in 1973.
  Grable was a Republican who supported the campaign of Dwight Eisenhower during the 1952 presidential election.
caption: Grable's daughters Victoria Elizabeth and Jessica watch her rehearse for her TV debut on
  Shower of Stars (1954)
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