Betty Lawford
Biography
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Betty Lawford (February 1, 1912 – November 20, 1960) was a United States-based English film and stage actress.
Her parents, Ernest Lawford and Janet Slater Lawford, were also actors, and she was a cousin of the actor and socialite Peter Lawford.
Lawford's stage debut came in a Players' Club production of Henry IV. She followed that with appearances in Julius Caesar and The Lady Lies. Her Broadway credits include Glamour Preferred (1940), Walk With Music (1940), The Women (1936), There's Wisdom in Women (1935), Heat Wave (1931), The Lady Lies (1928), and King Henry IV, Part I (1926).
She was briefly married to the American actor-director Monta Bell.
She died at Roosevelt Hospital, Manhattan, following an illness of three weeks.
Filmography
The Devil Thumbs a Ride
1947
as Agnes Smith
Stage Door Canteen
1943
as Betty Lawford
Stolen Holiday
1937
as Helen Tuttle
Criminal Lawyer
1937
as Betty Walker
Love Before Breakfast
1936
as Countess Jane Campanella
The Human Side
1934
as Alma Hastings
Let’s Be Ritzy
1934
as Mrs. Pembrook
Gallant Lady
1933
as Cynthia Haddon
Berkeley Square
1933
as Marjorie Frant
The Monkey's Paw
1933
as Rose
Secrets of a Secretary
1931
as Sylvia Merritt
Old English
1930
as Phyllis
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
1929
as Mary Watson
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Lucky In Love
1929
as Lady Mary Cardigan
Gentlemen of the Press
1929
as Dorothy Snell Hanley