Betty Bartley Nannariello (November 12, 1922 – September 10, 2013), known professionally as Betty Bartley, was an American television and film actress. She began her career as a child actor and continued in film, television, and stage performances including appearances in early talkies,[1] including The Laughing Lady.[2] Illustrator McClelland Barclay chose her in 1941 as the Ideal Streamlined Ziegfeld Girl.[3]
Betty Bartley | |
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| Born | November 12, 1922 |
| Died | September 10, 2013 (aged 90) |
| Occupation | Actress |
Early life
editBetty Bartley was born on November 12, 1922.[4] Her mother, Elenor Marie McGraw (1892–1956), was the daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth McGraw of Seneca, New York.[5][6] Her mother first married Hugh Bartley and lived in Belle Harbor, Queens,[7] and then married Charles Devaney in 1933.[5][6][8] She lived her married life in Belle Harbor and the Rockaways, New York until her death in October 1956.[5][6] Bartley began acting as a child,[1] appearing in the talkie film The Laughing Lady in 1929.[2]
Career
editIn 1939 and 1940, she appeared in the Broadway musical revue The Streets of Paris.[9] Bartley was then a dancer in an Ed Wynn Broadway production in 1941.[3] She starred in a production of Three Men on a Horse at the Westchester Playhouse in 1946.[10] Her television performances before 1951 were on the shows Studio One, Man Against Crime, and Sure As Fate. In 1951, she was in the Broadway play Twentieth Century.[11] She was among the cast of the traveling production of Twin Beds in 1954.[12] In 1959, she starred in Bert Lahr's stage production of DuBarry Was a Lady.[13]
Over the course of her career, she had appeared in films and stage productions with Maurice Chevalier, Fredric March, Ed Wynn, Nancy Carroll, and Abbott and Costello.[14]
Personal life
editIn 1946, Bartley married MGM stage and story editor Howard Hoyt,[15] with whom she had a son, William B. Hoyt.[1] Her second husband was director Walter Futter in 1955. The following year, Bartley gave birth to a baby who lived only eight hours. Their marriage ended in 1956,[16] and they began divorce proceedings in 1957.[17] Walter Futter died in 1958, while the couple was still separated.[18] In 1959 Bartley was said to lead a firm that made cinemascope lenses. She married advertising executive Edgar Krass in September 1959,[5] and they had a son in June 1960.[19][20] Their sons are Edgar B. Krass and Richard B. Krass.[1] By 1985,[20] she married John Nannariello, who died in 1993.[21]
Betty Bartley died in St. Petersburg, Florida in 2013.[22]
References
edit- ^ a b c d "Obituaries: Betty Bartley Nannariello". Tampa Bay Times. September 15, 2013. p. B5. Retrieved May 23, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b "Ruth Catterton in Brilliant Start of Rivoli Talkie". The Central New Jersey Home News. March 28, 1930. p. 31. Retrieved May 23, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b "Broadway". The Pittsburgh Press at Newspapers.com. January 30, 1941. p. 15. Retrieved May 23, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Betty B. Nannariello", Voter Registration Lists, Public Record Filings, Historical Residential Records, and Other Household Database Listings, St. Petersburg, Florida, 1993
- ^ a b c d "Comedienne Weds Adman". Daily News. September 18, 1959. p. 536. Retrieved May 23, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b c "Obituaries: Mrs. Charles Devaney" (PDF). The Wave. Rockaway Beach. October 11, 1956. Retrieved May 23, 2018.
- ^ "Neponsit-Belle Harbor Rockaway Park" (PDF). The Wave. Rockaway Beach. March 20, 1958. Retrieved May 23, 2018.
- ^ "Marie McGraw married Charles Devaney on February 14, 1933", Index to New York City Marriages, 1866-1937
- ^ Dan Dietz (29 March 2018). The Complete Book of 1930s Broadway Musicals. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 579. ISBN 978-1-5381-0277-0.
- ^ Nielsen Business Media, Inc. (August 10, 1946). "On the Silo Circuit". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. p. 47.
{{cite magazine}}:|author=has generic name (help) - ^ "Radio and Television". The Pittsburgh Press. January 23, 1951. p. 35. Retrieved May 23, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Farce Revival of 'Twin Beds' at the American Next Week". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. January 17, 1954. p. 87. Retrieved May 23, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Siren". Daily News. New York, New York. August 19, 1959. p. 15. Retrieved May 23, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "'A Tree Grows in Brookln' to be staged at Corning". Elmira Advertiser. July 3, 1952. p. 2. Retrieved May 23, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Howard Hoyt, MGM'a stage and story editor (in the East) and actress Betty Bartley are honeymooning". newspapers.com. Wilkes-Barre Times. March 4, 1946. Retrieved 20 May 2018.
- ^ "Walter Winchell Says: Broadway Spotlight". Clarion-Ledger. June 8, 1956. p. 8. Retrieved May 23, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Walter Winchell". The Cincinnati Enquirer. May 15, 1957. p. 25. Retrieved May 23, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Death in Mystery Ends Marital Row". Daily News. March 5, 1958. p. 3. Retrieved May 23, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Big Towners Are Talking About". The Greenville News. June 16, 1960. p. 4. Retrieved May 23, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b "Krass-Salvador". Tampa Bay Times. September 9, 1985. p. 35. Retrieved May 23, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "John Nannariello". Tampa Bay Times. April 27, 1993. p. 126. Retrieved May 23, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Betty Bartley Nannariello - Obituary". Saint Petersburg Times. September 15, 2013.