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Betsy Blair
Actress
Female
Born
Dec 11, 1923
Hometown
Cliffside Park, N...
Died
Mar 13, 2009
Death Place
London
Other Names
Boger, Elizabeth ...
Betsy Blair was an American actress of film and stage, long based in London. Blair pursued a career in entertainment from the age of eight, and as a child worked as an amateur dancer, performed on radio, and worked as a model, before joining the chorus… Read More
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Betsy Blair
d.2009
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Frederica AmmonMother
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CHILDHOOD
1923
Birth
Born on December 11, 1923.
1933
9 Years Old
Born Elizabeth Winifred Boger, her father, William Kidd Boger, was a partner in a small insurance brokerage firm; her mother, Frederica Ammon, was a schoolteacher. Both were Episcopalians. At the age of eight, she was enrolled in the Swift Sisters School of Dance, and recalls performing before Eleanor Roosevelt in 1933, winning an amateur contest shortly thereafter, joining a touring amateur show and performing on local radio, as motivating influences in her desire to pursue a dance career.
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TEENAGE
1940
16 Years Old
In the interim, Blair joined the chorus at the International Casino in New York, and when it closed down, worked in the chorus of Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe from January 1940 where Gene Kelly was working as choreographer. "Gene fought for me.
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Blair and Kelly's relationship blossomed, culminating in their marriage in October 1941.
THIRTIES
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There she met Gene Kelly; they were married the following year, when she was seventeen years old, and divorced sixteen years later in 1957.
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1963
39 Years Old
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She married Czech-born director/ producer Karel Reisz in 1963, and would perform sporadically in later years working with Costa-Gavras' (Betrayed, 1988) and on the mini-series Scarlett in 1994.
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FIFTIES
1980
56 Years Old
In 1980, she was a member of the jury at the 30th Berlin International Film Festival.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
2003
79 Years Old
She published her autobiography, The Memory of All That, in 2003.
2009
85 Years Old
Blair died in London after a bout with cancer, aged 85, on March 13, 2009.
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