The Pin-Up Girl Who Lost It All

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@maryclasen9168 2 ай бұрын

I like these videos because they are generally kind-hearted, not vicious. Love this narrator. ❤

@chuckz2934 2 ай бұрын

Exactly. He is an excellent narrator

@mitzicrowder2186 2 ай бұрын

I agree

@DamienHurts 2 ай бұрын

I LOVED her in How to Marry A Millionaire. Her comedy timing was brilliant, so charming and warm-spirited. Shame to hear about the struggles she was facing. Nice video

@DudeSilad 2 ай бұрын

My Mum's cousin was a Royal Navy sailor in WW2. His ship had gone over to New York to pick up arms. But luckily for him, it broke down so he had to stay in New York for 3 months. Like all sailors in those days, they'd all go dancing. Whilst he was in one location, Betty Grable was there who used to allow one dance with a sailor. But she said to my Mum's cousin, you can have two because you are cute! He had an amazingly colourful life. He survived four beach landings including D-Day, was award the Legion D'honneur by the French and his daughter married a man who owned hotels and moved to California and whose neighbour was Grace Kelly who he spoke to over the fence. Covid got him in the end at the ripe old age of 96. But he was sharp as a tac when I spoke to him a year or two before he died.

@mitzicrowder2186 2 ай бұрын

Very cool. This story is beautiful ❤️

@cynthiaweston767 2 ай бұрын

Great story,great life full of adventures.

@Frankmaui67 2 ай бұрын

Awesome story. Thanks for sharing. I love this great story.

@seagrape54 2 ай бұрын

I'm 88 now and Betty Grable was my favorite movie star when I was a child. I didn't know her personal life was so unhappy. So sad that while she brought so much cheer and happiness to her fans (and to WWII soldiers) she had so little of it for herself.

@daniakalaina 2 ай бұрын

My grandmother and father saw Betty Grable when she was on a War Bonds tour during wwii. My grandma said she was petite perfection

@windstorm1000 2 ай бұрын

Love Bette. She helped us w the war. Boys fought for her and their girls back home. Her musicals were morale boosters

@JacquelineBarnes-u5y 2 ай бұрын

Oh dear

@maureenjacobs3697 2 ай бұрын

Wonderful narrator telling an intriguing bio.

@cookshackcuisinista 2 ай бұрын

Love this narrator! 🎉🎉🎉

@justyne8627 2 ай бұрын

Despite the magic and the beauty old movies created and displayed, it seems all the stars in them had heartbreaking lives. Not least of which were their romances. When I was a kid, I'd watch old films on TV with my grandma, completely spellbound. I BELIEVED them. What's hard to believe is that now, decades later, I'm still emerging from their spell. It started to unravel for me when I wondered, why don't any of the actors and actresses have the kind of storybook lives they're portraying? Because, they simply do not exist that way. The realization comforted me and let me down.

@ozidanni 2 ай бұрын

The end of this video claims Betty was 7 months pregnant in the swimsuit photo, but her first child, a daughter, wasn't born until 15 months after that photo was taken. (Despite the pose, she didn't look 7 months pregnant to me, so I did some fast googling on the dates, and I also found a cinema historian debunking this rumour.)

@invisiblue3212 2 ай бұрын

Came here looking for this comment👍

@carlcushmanhybels8159 2 ай бұрын

Oh well, the 'best' stories usually aren't quite neatly correct. Maybe she was 7 months pre-pregnant?

@NBZW 2 ай бұрын

My aunt Nellie worked in a Hollywood dry cleaning and laundry establishment, she tells my grandfather to close his eyes and extend his hand, she slips a pair of panties over his hand and exclaimed: “Now you can say you had your hand in Betty Grable’s pants.”

@patricialitteral30 2 ай бұрын

Wow she was seven months pregnant when she struck THAT ICONIC POSE?!?!?!!

@fred3467 2 ай бұрын

Thanks James for another fascinating video!

@heidibee501 2 ай бұрын

I generally watch between one to three movies by any specific actor/actress. In Betty Grable's case, however, l believe l have seen all (or most) of her movies. She was so talented. I am truly sorry she felt insecure. The only serious movie i remember her in was "l Wake Up Screaming," with Victor Mature. I would love to see a bio of VICTOR MATURE.

@Luna.3.3.3 2 ай бұрын

❤ My favourite narrator❣ I'll watch any of his videos 😊

@melissavancleave8686 2 ай бұрын

Best narrator.

@ExclusivelyElusive 2 ай бұрын

Remember her best as a teen in those Astaire/Roger's films 'The Gaye Divorcee' and 'Follow the Fleet.' The 'Let's Knock Knees' number she does with Everet Everett Horton was "risque," to say the least.

@carlcushmanhybels8159 2 ай бұрын

I'll look them up.

@SueP-D 2 ай бұрын

Hit Play, hold my breath and … YES! Favorite narrator 🎉🎉🎉

@PhilipAlvers 2 ай бұрын

Good warm narration. And heart-warming analysis of a famous Icon of beauty!

@caraqueno 2 ай бұрын

The narrator's assertion that Betty Grable became a big star after her pin-up photo appeared is historically wrong. Anyone still alive from WW II will tell you that Betty Grable already had been a major movie star for several years before her pin-up photo appeared, not that her photo created her stardom.

@donnadees1971 2 ай бұрын

LORDIE, she did have beautiful legs. Mine are great, but hers were amazing.

@annehersey9895 2 ай бұрын

Betty was excellent in How to marry a millionaire! It showed her acting chops and she made the most of the part!

@fred3467 2 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@Factinate 2 ай бұрын

Wow thank you so much! We appreciate your support!

@tricivenola8164 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for this!! I grew up in the lee of WWII, and Betty Grable was a household word. I never knew how rough she had it, or how nice a person she was. Now actors have much more say in their careers, but those early girls paved the way-- with the bones of their talent. And by the way, George Raft was a legend- for his stupidity. And now we find out he was a thug offscreen as well.

@donnadees1971 2 ай бұрын

I don’t like getting the info like garble’s downfall, I have to say it is amazing that you put it all together.

@marionmarcetic7287 2 ай бұрын

During WW11 My Dad Loved Betty Grable's Pin Up Picture! Like Most Of The GI'S Of That Time! Shalom And Amen!✝️✝️🛐🛐😇🌟🤗🙏🙏🙏🇨🇦🇬🇧🇮🇱♾️🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🗽🦅❤❤❤‼️

@marissadower-morgan3313 2 ай бұрын

NOOO not my George Raft! How terrible !

@anthonymcnamee6297 2 ай бұрын

Good old star

@ChristianoWhite 2 ай бұрын

the Athena tennis gen practically plagiarised Betty and in living color, but, personally I still prefer the OmG b&w pics.

@JohnnyAcevedo-y3w 2 ай бұрын

They say that she had baby bump during that photo session

@bethelshiloh 2 ай бұрын

Interesting

@JillMorgan-b7y 2 ай бұрын

Time 2:53. What do you mean "too young" and the working age was 15? Ever heard of Shirley Temple?

@TawnyC_ 2 ай бұрын

Grable was NOT pregnant in the photo.

@tonigillette9217 Ай бұрын

Norma Jean would have refused to do such a nasty thing pedicure or not. The press is always unkind to scrappers, and very fawning of the compliant ones. She refused to work while under Preminger on the set of River of No Return when they were abusing stage hand laborers. She told them she would be ready to work when they gave them proper breaks.