Dick Haymes, Betty Grable--The More I See You, 1972 TV

Dick Haymes sings "The More I See You" to Betty Grable, with whom he originally introduced it in the 1945 film "Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe," in this rare TV performance from 1972.

[@MarieC806]

Both so talented. Both died of lung cancer. She died 1 year after this show. And he died 8 years later. Her films and his music still bring joy

[@salinagrrrl69]

You took my intended words.

[@theresachiorazzi4571]

Oh how lovely Betty was I enjoyed the musicals she stared in and June haver was quite a dish herself those were the best times

[@robertdileo3269]

Great singer singing to the pin up girl. They both look wonderful.

[@rivaridge7211]

A wonderful friend of mine had the opportunity (due to his work in the entertainment field) to meet many Hollywood celebrities. He mentioned to me several times that Betty Grable was the nicest, most down to earth celebrity he ever had the pleasure of meeting - and even got to know her a bit as a fun friend! This is a great clip - Bless Betty's good and kind heart for always!

[@elainesnow326]

RivaRidge'72 she was certainly stunning, she was probably 57 here and just gorgeous. Sadly, she would die the next year at just 58. Such a talented, gorgeous lady. It’s nice to know she was a kind lady. Some people are beautiful on the outside & inside. Very few of them, but lovely to know they exist.

[@Muirmaiden]

Unfortunately, due to her own terrible childhood, Betty did not treat her daughters very well, which is why they were not close to her and have rarely spoken about her publicly.

[@anitalynnary-price7684]

@@Muirmaiden why did you need to share that here?

[@angelacarleton9575]

Betty is lovely and always will be one of the greats of the 40s big top actresses of those times. You can tell she is a down to earth person.

[@bbrown333]

@@anitalynnary-price7684 To make her human and bring truth and balance amongst blind adulation.

[@spicey6646]

A year before she died.So beautiful.RIP Betty.

[@mickpearson6184]

She was even more gorgeous in her 50s Stunning lady

[@Thesavageeye]

Betty Grable, always beautiful…

[@raymondthompson1476]

Being a big fan of Dick Haymes, seeing this clip for the first time is making me well up. Raymondo.

[@francisalanwormald6328]

A SHEER DELIGHT for this 82 YR OLD....I MISS ALL OF IT & THEM...

[@billlombard9911]

RIP a titan, a icon Betty Grable. Many a man during WW2 stared at her famous poster. RIP a great singer Haymes

[@showtunestarpower]

Precious! I love listening to Dick - and watching Betty. What a great team!

[@chrismoor7540]

Lovely to see Betty in her last musical TV appearance.

[@TheMaisie80]

Dick Haymes...still a lovely voice and Betty looking Fabulous. Thanks for posting this clip..

[@lanadale1479]

Very Emotional for me...I love Betty Grable and Dick Haymes.....

[@GeorgeSwift-qj1ik]

Dick Haymes was overlooked as a singer. The press gave more attention to his rival Sinatra.

[@MsJreiber]

I love the beautiful lyrics of the old songs.

[@ceciliem1811]

Such a beautiful viewing of this spectacular couple! Dick, was one of the best under rated singers of all time and Betty was the most beautiful!! Thanks for sharing!!

[@xfhghe]

At one time these were 2 very talented, attractive, and well known performers. Here they are in their 50's and for Betty Grable, her final year. The talent was still there but they and most of their contemporaries were largely unknown outside of their generation. How unlike the 70 year rock stars you still see today. I find this video to be very poignant. Dick Haymes was the finest male singer of his era in my opinion.

[@AngusTCat]

I love the movie Diamond Horseshoe! One of my favorites. This is one of my favorite songs too.

[@bigbandsrock1]

So precious! Love them both! ❤️❤️

[@mickpearson6184]

Beautiful lady

[@guilfordcigarman]

This was deeply touching.

[@elisabethm.stevens6374]

What can I say, wonderful entertainers and wonderful song!

[@michaelpanagiotis7109]

Diamond horseshoe , premiered in 1945 ! WonderfuL ! ! !

[@eduardorodriguez-wg2oj]

Great Argentine singer ,🎶🇦🇷👍👏.

[@9295felix]

totalmente de acuerdo.

[@SLam-ve3yp]

Of English and Irish descent.

[@rebeccaphlly7916]

2 great stars ,look how gorgeous movie star Betty Grable till was, damn and wow, for them both

[@bennyjazzful]

WOW WOW WOW ! From a mad keen 74yo Aussie fan.

[@eduardorodriguez-wg2oj]

Cantante Argentino ,muy famoso en su tiempo ,🎶🇦🇷🇺🇸👍👏

[@ariasra]

2:29 ❤

[@ariasra]

Felicito Eduardo. Al fin en los millones de personas de la web. Vos reconociste las raices a este GENIAL y MAGNIFICO intérprete. Argentino de Buenos Aires. 😊😊😊😊

[@MsJreiber]

Beautiful

[@Juliaflo]

Heaven help Hollywood if it tries to remake 'Diamond Horseshoe'.

[@susanbell4718]

THey are great together.

[@matildaroman29]

love it❤

[@politicalincorrect3368]

We played this video as my mom died. April 3 2019

[@dannybex]

Weird.

[@Juliaflo]

1916-Centennial of birth of Betty Grable.

[@billbickley5798]

Still Great...................Bill Bickley UK

[@ChuckParDue1953]

Wonderful Alan. My wife Cheryl got to work with Dick Haymes on the Big Broadcast of 1944. Dick died the following year There's an October 1965 episode of the Hollywood Palace with Betty Grable I would love to see.

[@aeichler]

+Chuck Par-Due I only have the one from 1964 with Van Johnson.

[@fasbc]

+Chuck Par-Due I saw that show at the Valley Forge Music Fair outside Philly. Dick was great. I was surprised that he and Helen Forrest, who was on the Bill, didn't do a duet.

[@windstorm1000]

Did you hear his breath control near the end of song? He doesn't break in between the two phrases

[@karengoonting2561]

@James Henderson And yet his breath control was phenomenal even in his early 20s. Many were surprised at such control in a singer so young.

[@vin.handle]

Dick Haymes was in the upper elite of crooners of his day. With Crosby, Sinatra, Como, etc.

[@bob-e9q]

The guy nextdoor Just heard this and jumped off the kitchen sink on to a Broomstick with nails the sound was Ohhh Ahhhh ooooooo

[@mernazsall4927]

Liked the movie.. v🤗

[@richernest3359]

Hoot forevers!Blazing.

[@wilburbonzo]

Betty looks great considering she was 56 here (born 1916), she was the top female star of the 1940s, boffo box office for 20th Century Fox

[@aeichler]

This was one of her last major appearances and she died shortly after at the age of 56.

[@wilburbonzo]

Dick Haymes was Rita Hayworth's fourth husband

[@martyrobinson4474]

mariano barbieri more than a few ... this was filmed on April 10, 1972… She died July 2 the following year.

[@IndianOutlaw1870]

55 here.

[@chaseroberts3111]

In his youth, probably the best singer ever(both Don Rickles and Frank Sinatra agreed when they both were on johnny Carson)

[@alanex5225]

This came from 'Diamond Horseshoe' (also billed as 'Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe'), a 1945 Technicolor musical film starring Betty Grable and Dick Haymes, which I still adore. Betty had a beautiful polka dot yellow sundress. I remember. I guess she was feeling pretty lousy here as I think she may have been undergoing chemotherapy.

[@davidbingdingdong]

Tremendous voice and Betty, wowser

[@skipgoodale7884]

Betty looks great here but died of lung cancer a year later. So sad.

[@billlombard9911]

Skip Goodale RIP a Icon a true lady and another like her will never come again

[@johnderosa2276]

I thought she died in 1974. She looks even better here than in the movies and she looked pretty darn good in the films.

[@silverfox4743]

I believe that he died of Lung Cancer also, and was ONLY 61 YEARS OLD!!

[@IndianOutlaw1870]

Betty died in 1973 shortly after Secretariat won the triple crown. She was 56.

[@chrisjeffries2322]

@@johnderosa2276 She past 7/2/1973

[@adelebz7]

💝💝💝💝💝

[@urdivine]

Dick had a less than admirable personal life but he was one of the best vocalists of all time

[@rebeccaphlly7916]

Alot of the perfrmers then , had a good base,like most people, but were abused as children in one form or another, and brought that ptsd into adulthood, without the "counseling " to adress their unhealed emotional injuries, couple that with, that a plurallity of creative people have mental health disorders, such as bipolar, untreated, that's a recipe for erratic, unusual and hurtful behavior, which would be a mitigating factor. I think he was a good person,look at the love and kindness he's showing Betty Grable here, that without meaning to , made some serious mistakes, hurting others as well as himself, but always,even when he was young, heseemed sad about something, those dark issues aside, he was a great singer,one of my favorites, movie star gorgeous Betty Grable was a truelly one of the greatest stars as well.

[@susanbell4718]

The baritone and the beauty!

[@Muirmaiden]

Betty Grable was also abused as child, her second husband Harry James abused her and she in turn abused her daughters. Terrible cycle. people.com/archive/picks-and-pans-review-pin-up-the-tragedy-of-betty-grable-vol-27-no-10/

[@joesphbegley3088]

The cigarettes got both of them

[@williamlrobinson6293]

Betty married Harry James. Betty put her movie career on hold. They stayed married until Betty passed. Yes she does look good in this video.

[@cmcb09]

Coincidentally enough, when Betty was in the hospital for the last time. Harry sent her flowers, she said to the lines of "these are nice, but I wish he would have sent me some of the money I loaned him over the years."

[@monilaninetynine3811]

It's weird how they both died on or around the time of their wedding anniversary.

[@roncharlebois7142]

@@monilaninetynine3811 play ra mblig rose by nat kinb cole

[@bnorman9987]

Haymes had a great baritone--one of the best. Too bad he drank--ruined his career. As for Betty- she is a legend.

[@sharksport01]

Too bad she smoked.

[@amyclarke41]

aged well i thought

[@roryvanucchi2392]

👍

[@stitchesful]

Was Betty Grable's speaking voice always a little hoarse like how it is here, or did it become this way because of her smoking? She didn't start smoking until after she'd been famous for awhile, right?

[@aeichler]

She had throat cancer and passed away very shortly after this appearance.

[@stitchesful]

Oh, thanks for the info. I had thought it was lung cancer she'd died from. Sad to think that she died not long after this.

[@aeichler]

She was only 56.

[@IndianOutlaw1870]

@@aeichler She had lung cancer, not throat cancer. She started smoking as a teenager in the 1930s.

[@chrisjeffries2322]

3 packs a day will kill you!

[@markharrison2544]

They both died from smoking.

[@piddles11]

So did thousands of other actors from the golden age.

[@StevenTorrey]

Listen to a younger Dick Haymes and listen to this performance form 1972 and the effects of smoking are noticeable.... Nat King Cole seems to be the only singer who didn't lose his vocal coloraton from smoking.

[@Juliaflo]

@@StevenTorrey .......But he had a lung removed because of lung cancer.

[@michelaumais5107]

Sad to watch this knowing Betty suffered from lung cancer and would die a few months later

[@jacquelinelarsen1721]

Classy performers are a thing of the past. Now we have apes shaking their butts like beyonce

[@manuellima5004]

O cantor argentino Dick Haymes não era superior a Sinatra e Betty Grable tinha um excelente corpo e uma boa presença no palco. As suas pernas tinham um seguro de 1 milhão de USdollars.O filme >Diamando Horse era bastante interessante e era de 45

[@KentuckyJet]

I agree. sinatra was all hype.

[@rebeccaphlly7916]

Si nacio en Argentina, pero los padres eras Americano, el eras ma bien, Americano.

[@womanlover1887]

Haymes had the class that Sinatra lacked. A better voice also.

[@StevenTorrey]

More class than Sinatra, without a doubt. A better singer, a better voice? Highly debatable.

[@brucemarsico6]

A most underrated singer.

[@AlexisAnderson]

Class? He publicly struck rita Hayworth across the face. No class at all

[@digitalgr8ness]

Dick was a total dick!! He was deadbeat dad, a liar, a cheat, a drunk and an abusive and manipulative husband to his many wives, including Rita Hayworth. His stage persona is a total farce compared to his real life persona.

[@karengoonting2561]

@@StevenTorrey I've been a life-long Sinatra fan but I do concede that Haymes had the better voice. The best of the century. No doubt.

[@elijahevangarcia]

Jesus loves you he suffered the worst punishment to frogive are sins we all have sin cause we are human ask Jesus for help not to do sin again

[@albertpiazza2590]

)nV

[@mikestamb6990]

King Richard singing .