| Betty Garrett  Born: 23-May-1919
Birthplace: St. Joseph, MO
Died: 12-Feb-2011
Location of death: Los Angeles, CA
Cause of death: Aneurysm
Remains: Cremated
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Irene Lorenzo on All in the Family Stage and film actress who twice played a woman in love with Frank Sinatra, in Take Me Out to the Ballgame and On the Town. Hollywood career stalled when she and her husband, actor Larry Parks, were blacklisted in the red scare of the 1950s, though she was not called to testify, "because I was nine months pregnant with my second son, and they didn't think I would be a good witness." Father: Curtis Garrett (travelling salesman)
Mother: Octavia Garrett
Husband: Larry Parks (actor, m. 8-Sep-1944, d. 13-Apr-1975, two sons)
Son: Garrett Parks (composer, b. 26-Jan-1950)
Son: Andrew Parks (actor, b. 1-Mar-1951)
Golden Globe 1975 for All in the Family
Hollywood Walk of Fame 23-May-2003
TELEVISION
All in the Family Irene Lorenzo (irregularly, 1973-75)
Laverne and Shirley Edna Babish-DeFazio (irregularly, 1977-80)
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Carol Channing: Larger Than Life (20-Jan-2012) · Herself
Dark and Stormy Night (16-Jan-2009)
Broadway: The Golden Age (Apr-2003) · Herself
The Long Way Home (1-Mar-1998)
The Shadow on the Window (6-Mar-1957)
My Sister Eileen (22-Sep-1955) · Ruth Sherwood
On the Town (8-Dec-1949) · Brunhilde Esterhazy
Neptune's Daughter (9-Jun-1949) · Betty Barrett
Take Me Out to the Ball Game (9-Mar-1949) · Shirley Delwyn
Words and Music (9-Dec-1948) · Peggy Lorgan McNeil
Big City (25-Mar-1948) · Shoo Shoo Grady
Author of books:
Betty Garrett and Other Songs: A Life on Stage and Screen (1998, memoir)
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