Betty Grable
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 Betty Grable facts

• Her 42 movies during the 1930s and 1940s grossed more than $100 million
• She set a record of 12 consecutive years in the top 10 of box office stars
• The Treasury Department in 1946-47 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 co-eds
• Grable came to prominence in the Broadway musical DuBarry 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