Betty Lawford
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1912-02-01 – 1960-11-20 · London, England, UK
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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.
- The Devil Thumbs a Ride (1947) — Agnes Smith
- Stage Door Canteen (1943) — Betty Lawford
- Berkeley Square (1933) — Marjorie Frant
- Love Before Breakfast (1936) — Countess Jane Campanella
- Stolen Holiday (1937) — Helen Tuttle
- Criminal Lawyer (1937) — Betty Walker
- Gallant Lady (1933) — Cynthia Haddon
- Secrets of a Secretary (1931) — Sylvia Merritt
- Old English (1930) — Phyllis
- Gentlemen of the Press (1929) — Dorothy Snell Hanley
- The Monkey's Paw (1933) — Rose
- The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1929) — Mary Watson
- Let’s Be Ritzy (1934) — Mrs. Pembrook
- The Human Side (1934) — Alma Hastings