TopTenREVIEWS presents the film career and movie reviews of Betty Grable.
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Birthdate: December 18, 1916
Death date: July 2, 1973
Betty Grable
ACTOR RANKINGS:
CAREER SPAN
Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1920s
No Reviews
1
1930s
2.5334
28
1940s
2.8424
20
1950s
1.8707
9
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: 
2.5738
2.5738
Betty Grable Movie Rankings
1
2.8635Promoter Frankie Christopher, being grilled by police in the murder of model Vicky Lynn, recalls in flashback: First meeting her as a waitress, Frankie decides to parlay her beauty into social acceptance and a lucrative career. ...more about I Wake Up Screaming
DVD from $6.59
(10 sellers)
2
2.8405When the fleet puts in at San Francisco, sailor Bake Baker tries to rekindle the flame with his old dancing partner, Sherry Martin, while Bake's buddy Bilge Smith romances Sherry's sister Connie. ...more about Follow the Fleet
DVD from $12.71
(13 sellers)
3
2.7213Tyrone Power is a pilots' pilot, but he doesn't believe in anything beyond his own abilities. ...more about Yank in the R.A.F.
DVD from $5.99
(11 sellers)
4
2.6848
Married coaches Slug and Bessie find hillbilly football tosser Amos and the team gets invited to the Yale Bowl. This was Judy Garland's first film. ...more about Pigskin Parade
- Not Available on DVD
5
2.6552
Three New York models, Shatze, Pola and Loco set-up in an exclusive appartment with a plan: tired of cheap men and a lack of money they intend to use all their talents to trap and marry three millionaires. ...more about How to Marry a Millionaire
DVD from $10.69
(10 sellers)
6
2.5661
In 1904, Uncle Latsie comes to New York from Hungary with two little nieces, who immediately take to cafe dancing. In 1912 they're still at it, but to pay Uncle's card debts they decide to go into vaudeville. ...more about Dolly Sisters
DVD from $9.99
(14 sellers)
7
2.5570
With his sidekick Rusty, Jeff Harper sails to paradisiacal tropical isle Ahmi-Oni to bargain on behalf of his cattle baron father for land owned by transplanted Irishman Dennis O'Brien. ...more about Song of the Islands
- Not Available on DVD
9
2.4930
In the midst of a mid-life crisis, Henry Smith convinces his wife, Ellen, that they should take separate one-week vacations, with no questions asked. ...more about By Your Leave
- Not Available on DVD
10
2.3538
American girl (Grable) on vacation in Argentina falls for wealthy racehorse owner (Ameche). Lots of scenery and musical entertainment. Carmen Miranda's debut. ...more about Down Argentine Way
DVD from $9.99
(14 sellers)
12
2.3378
Sisters Kay and Barbara arrive in Miami from Texas looking for rich husbands. Much singing and dancing including the number "You Started Something". ...more about Moon Over Miami
DVD from $9.99
(14 sellers)
13
2.3150
Mimi Glossop wants a divorce so her Aunt Hortense hires a professional to play the correspondent in apparent infidelity. American dancer Guy Holden meets Mimi while visiting Brightbourne (Brighton) and she thinks he is the correspondent. ...more about Gay Divorcee
DVD from $12.71
(13 sellers)
14
2.2693
Joe Davis Sr., headliner at a big nightclub, is visited by medical student son Joe Jr., who to Dad's chagrin wants to be a crooner, and soon comes between Dad and his girlfriend Claire. So glamorous dancer Bonnie is enlisted to distract Junior. ...more about Diamond Horseshoe
- Not Available on DVD
15
2.0821
Saloon-bar singer Freddie gets very angry whenever boyfriend Blackie seems to be playing around. She always packs a six-shooter, so this is bad news for anything that happens to be in the way. ...more about Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend
- Not Available on DVD
16
2.0273
Producer Bob Temple, who's brought an American show to London, loves his star Diana, but she won't take him seriously as a lover. To show her, he picks up stranger Lady Arlington, whose financier husband neglects her. ...more about Man About Town
- Not Available on DVD
17
1.8812
Glamorous Lorry Jones, the toast of a Missouri military canteen, has become "engaged" to almost every serviceman she's signed her pin-up photo for. Now she's leaving home to go into government service (not, as she fantasizes, to join the USO). ...more about Pin Up Girl
DVD from $9.99
(11 sellers)
18
1.6620
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. ...more about Tin Pan Alley
- Not Available on DVD
19
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 acquiring a girl in a somewhat back alley manner. ...more about My Blue Heaven
DVD from $9.99
(15 sellers)
21
G.I. Sergeant Shep Dooley, former stage star awaiting discharge in postwar Tokyo, meets his estranged love Kay when she arrives to entertain the troops. Shep, who hasn't exactly lost his former irresponsibility, does his best to court Kay anew... ...more about Call Me Mister
- Not Available on DVD
23
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. ...more about Child of Manhattan
- Not Available on DVD
26
Set at the turn of the century, smooth talking con man Eddie Johnson weasels his way into a job at friend and rival Joe Rocco's Coney Island night spot. ...more about Coney Island
- Not Available on DVD
29
Erie Canal, N.Y., 1850: Molly Larkins, cook on Jotham Klore's canal boat, has a love-hate relationship with her boss. ...more about Farmer Takes a Wife
- Not Available on DVD
31
Conceited World Champion boxer Tommy Lundy decides to test his popularity in a Broadway show. Tommy always has an eye for the ladies and he starts paying attention to beautiful chorus girl Pat Lambert. ...more about Footlight Serenade
- Not Available on DVD
33
Jim and Walter are two brother sailors in the United States Navy. Walter tells Jim as soon as they get home he is going to ask his beautiful girlfriend, Nancy Larkin to marry him. ...more about Give Me a Sailor
DVD from $5.86
(12 sellers)
34
Margie, singer on a showboat, decides to try her luck in New York inspite of being in love with the owners grandson. ...more about Happy Days
- Not Available on DVD
36
Song-and-dance girls Curly and Stormy Tornado hide out with the guys at Bristol College when they know they can identify the killer of a fellow performer at their San Francisco cabaret. ...more about How to Be Very
- Not Available on DVD
38
Delilah Lee is the sar of husband Jeff Ames' Broadway show when she starts to suspect he has been exchanging more than contracts with the show's vampish backer. Alimony and amnesia become the order of the day. ...more about Meet Me After the Show
- Not Available on DVD
39
At Middleton College, controlled by rich donor Melton, only paying sports are allowed. But Freddie Frye, conniving student body president, has to get a letter in some sport to win back his girl Susie; he schemes to revive crew boat racing. ...more about Million Dollar Legs
- Not Available on DVD
40
In this chronicle of a vaudeville family, Myrtle McKinley (class of 1900) goes to San Francisco to attend business school, but ends up in a chorus line. Soon, star Frank Burt notices her talent, hires her for a "two-act", then marries her. ...more about Mother Wore Tights
- Not Available on DVD
42
Rich John Roberts, Jr. gets reports that his son, Johnny, is falling for a gold digging blonde at college. So he enrolls as a freshman to try to steer Johnny towards the girl he'd like him to marry. ...more about Old Man Rhythm
- Not Available on DVD
44
Entirely recited in rhyme, Broadway favorite Lou Holtz (as Count Romansky) plays a newspaper columnist specializing in romance issues who loses his cushy job. ...more about School for Romance
- Not Available on DVD
46
In the late 1800s, Miss Pilgrim, a young stenographer, or typewriter, becomes the first female employee at a Boston shipping office. Although the men object to her at first, she soon charms them all, especially the handsome young head of the company. ...more about Shocking Miss Pilgrim
- Not Available on DVD
47
Broadway partners Vicky Lane and Dan Christy have a tiff over Christy's womanizing. Jealous Vicky takes up with her old flame and former dance partner, Victor Price, and Dan's career takes a nosedive. ...more about Springtime in the Rockies
- Not Available on DVD
49
Betty Grable (as Susie Lee) concocts a scheme in which she takes over a socialite's apartment in order to fool her boyfriend (played by Art Jarrett) into believing that she comes from a wealthy family. ...more about Susie's Affairs
- Not Available on DVD
50
Music-hall star Madeleine Marlowe leaves London engaged to the Duke of Trippingham only to find back home that Police Gazette hack Samuel A. McGee has exposed her as former burlesque queen Rosie O'Grady. ...more about Sweet Rosie O'Grady
- Not Available on DVD
52
Circa 1861, Angelina, ruling countess of an Italian principality, is at a loss when invaded by a Hungarian army. Her lookalike ancestress Francesca, who saved a similar situation 300 years before, comes to life from a portrait to help her descendant. ...more about That Lady in Ermine
- Not Available on DVD
53
A famous singer and matinée idol helps a pretty young theater usher in her dreams of becoming a singer, but when her career begins to take off and she becomes engaged to a wealthy young man, he realizes he's fallen for her and plots to break up her ...more about This Way Please
- Not Available on DVD
56
Andy Clark discovers he was cheated out of a half interest in partner Mike's business, now a thriving dance hall in 1892 Chicago. Unable to win it back, Andy schemes to make Mike's position untenable. ...more about Wabash Avenue
- Not Available on DVD
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