Betty Lawford
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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.
Acting
Movie
The Devil Thumbs a Ride
as Agnes Smith
1947
Movie
Stage Door Canteen
as Betty Lawford
1943
Movie
Berkeley Square
as Marjorie Frant
1933
Movie
Love Before Breakfast
as Countess Jane Campanella
1936
Movie
Stolen Holiday
as Helen Tuttle
1937
Movie
Criminal Lawyer
as Betty Walker
1937
Movie
Gallant Lady
as Cynthia Haddon
1933
Movie
Secrets of a Secretary
as Sylvia Merritt
1931
Movie
Old English
as Phyllis
1930
Movie
Gentlemen of the Press
as Dorothy Snell Hanley
1929
Movie
The Monkey's Paw
as Rose
1933
Movie
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
as Mary Watson
1929
Movie
Let’s Be Ritzy
as Mrs. Pembrook
1934
Movie
Lucky In Love
as Lady Mary Cardigan
1929
Movie
The Human Side
as Alma Hastings
1934