The best Betty Grable’s drama movies

Betty Grable

Betty Grable

18/12/1916- 02/07/1973
We present our ranking of the best Betty Grable’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Betty Grable.
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Cavalcade

Cavalcade
5.8/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 08/02/1933
  • Character: Girl on Couch
A cavalcade of English life from New Year's Eve 1899 until 1933 seen through the eyes of well-to-do Londoners Jane and Robert Marryot. Amongst events touching their family are the Boer War, the death of Queen Victoria, the sinking of the Titanic and the Great War.

I Wake Up Screaming

I Wake Up Screaming
7.2/10
A young promoter is accused of the murder of Vicky Lynn, a young actress he "discovered" as a waitress while out with ex-actor Robin Ray and gossip columnist Larry Evans.

Wing and a Prayer

Wing and a Prayer
6.6/10
  • Genre: ActionDramaWar
  • Release: 01/01/1944
  • Character: (archive footage)
An aircraft carrier is sent on a decoy mission around the Pacific, with orders to avoid combat, thus lulling Japanese alertness before the battle of Midway.

Down Argentine Way

Down Argentine Way
6.4/10
An American girl on vacation in Argentina falls for a wealthy racehorse owner.

Tin Pan Alley

Tin Pan Alley
6.4/10
Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to England, and Katy joins her after the boys give a new song to Nora Bayes. All are reunited when the boys, now in the army, show up in England.

Probation

Probation
5.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/04/1932
  • Character: Ruth Jarrett
Janet Holman is suspicious of her fiancé, Allen Wells, after he kisses her best friend Gwen when the lights are turned out during a party. Allen leaves early, purportedly for business reasons, but in reality, he is going to visit his secret girl friend, seventeen-year-old Ruth Jarrett. When Ruth's neighbor and landlady, Mrs. Humphries, overhears her talking to Allen on the phone, she becomes morally outraged and calls the police. Ruth is taken away to juvenile hall, and when Ruth's older brother Nick comes home to celebrate Ruth's birthday, Mrs. Humphries explains that Ruth has been seeing an older, wealthy man who has been leading her astray, and that she sent her away for her own good. Nick is saddened that he has failed to keep Ruth on the right track, and when he returns to his apartment, he becomes enraged to see Allen there. When Allen claims ignorance of Ruth's age, Nick hits him, and they engage in a brawl.

The Dolly Sisters

The Dolly Sisters
6.2/10
Two sisters from Hungary become famous entertainers in the early 1900s. Fictionalized biography with lots of songs.

My Blue Heaven

My Blue Heaven
6.2/10
  • Genre: DramaMusic
  • Release: 15/09/1950
  • Character: Kitty Moran
Radio star Kitty Moran, long married to partner Jack, finds she's pregnant, but miscarries. For a change, the couple turn their act into a series on early TV and try to adopt a baby. Finally they acquiring a girl in a somewhat back alley manner.

Child of Manhattan

Child of Manhattan
6.4/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 11/02/1933
  • Character: Lucy McGonagle
Paul Vanderkill is extraordinarily wealthy because his grandfather happened to buy farmland in what was to become Midtown Manhattan. The Loveland Dance Hall is one of the tenants of the Vanderkill estates. To reassure his aunt Sophie, Vanderkill visits Loveland to determine whether it is as disreputable as Sophie suspects. There he meets a dime-a-dance girl, Madeleine MacGonagal, who charms him with her quaint proletarian accent. They begin a secret affair, which turns into a secret marriage when pregnancy ensues. When the baby fails to survive, Madeleine decides that since he had married her only for the baby's sake, she should make haste to Mexico to secure a divorce. There she meets Panama Canal Kelly, a former suitor who now owns a silver mine. Her plans for divorce and quick remarriage are complicated when Vanderkill arrives to confront her.

The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi

The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaMusic
  • Release: 25/10/1933
  • Character: Band Singer with Ted Fio Rito
A campus flirt who has been "pinned" by most of the boys of Sigma Chi fraternity falls for a no-nonsense athlete who doesn't have time for such diversions as women.

What Price Innocence?

What Price Innocence?
5.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 24/06/1933
  • Character: Beverly Bennett
A young woman has to pay the price for fooling around with men.

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