"I wanted the money only to enable me to see movie stars," he reportedly said The first extortion letter was written on Feb. 6, 1943. It was addressed to Betty Grable — then 26, a rising Hollywood ...

THE previous champ’s record of launching a thousand ships and burning the topless towers of Ilium is pretty piffling compared to the record set by Miss Betty Grable, the enchantress of the present ...

Betty Grable, it has been said, has the prettiest legs in Hollywood. She also has a pretty face and other lovely features. However, in this technicolor musical of life in Chicago during the 30's, she ...

I Wake Up Screaming (20th Century-Fox) is a showcase for the renowned torsos of bountiful Betty Grable and beautiful Victor Mature. A melodramiable mystery, well-directed, nicely acted, competently ...

“When I have a song to sing,” says Betty Grable, by way of explaining her success as a movie star, “I feel good singing it. I don’t think, ‘Gee! I’m the greatest singer.’ ” Neither does Miss Grable ...

At the height of her fame, movie star Betty Grable was targeted in a 1940s extortion scheme Movie star Betty Grable was a victim of extortion in the 1940s The extortionist, Russell Eugene Alexanderson ...