Betty Grable

貝蒂·格拉布爾，生于密蘇里州圣路易斯，原名伊麗莎白．魯思．格拉布爾。12歲進(jìn)入好萊塢專業(yè)學(xué)校學(xué)習(xí)舞蹈和歌唱。1929年開始參加好萊塢歌舞片中的合唱或舞蹈演出。1932年進(jìn)入雷電華影片公司，主演一些B級歌舞和喜劇片。1937年轉(zhuǎn)入派拉蒙影片公司；1940年進(jìn)入福斯影片公司。有著粉紅色膚色和性感大腿的她在彩色歌舞片中特別耀眼，她在40年代主演的一些歌舞片如《紅花艷曲》、《嬉春圖》、《花花世界》、《紅玫瑰》、《掛歷女郎》、《火樹銀花》、《雙姝艷》等極受廣泛歡迎，從1942-1951年，連續(xù)10年在美國十大賣座明星中榜上有名。二十世紀(jì)福斯公司還特別為她那雙肉感美腿在倫敦勞埃德保險(xiǎn)公司投了一百萬美元的保險(xiǎn)。此外，她在好主演的幾部歌舞片中唱的主題曲或插曲如“阿根廷之路”、“我的心告訴我”、“我不能馬上告訴你”、“是你”相繼獲奧斯卡最佳電影歌曲提名。然而隨著50年代歌舞片賣座的下降，她也于1955年退出銀幕。1973年死于肺癌。
 
Betty Grable (born Elizabeth Ruth Grable; December 18, 1916 – July 2, 1973) was an American actress, dancer, and singer and popular contract star for 20th Century-Fox during the 1940s and 1950s.
 
Grable began her film career in 1929 at age twelve, after which she 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 co-eds. Grable came to prominence in the Broadway musical Du Barry Was a Lady (1939), which brought her to the attention of 20th Century-Fox. She replaced Alice Faye in Down Argentine Way (1940), 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. In 1943, she was the number one box office draw in the world and, in 1947, she was the highest-paid entertainer in the United States. Two of her biggest film successes were the musical Mother Wore Tights (1947) and the comedy How to Marry a Millionaire (1953), one of her last films. Grable retired from screen acting in 1955 after she withdrew from her Fox contract, although she continued to perform on the stage and on television.
 
Throughout her career, Grable was celebrated for having the most beautiful legs in Hollywood and studio publicity often photographed her featuring them. Her iconic bathing suit poster made her the number one pin-up girl of World War II, surpassing Rita Hayworth. It was later included in the Life magazine project &100 Photographs that Changed the World&. Hosiery specialists of the era often noted the ideal proportions of her legs as thigh (18.5&), calf (12&), and ankle (7.5&). Grable's legs were famously insured by her studio for $1 million with Lloyds of London.