Highest rated movie: Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer (2002)
Lowest rated movie: Trail of the Screaming Forehead (2007)
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Movies starring Betty Garrett have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 69%.
Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer - released in 2002 - is Betty Garrett's highest rated movie, with a score of 82% based on 17 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Betty Garrett is Trail of the Screaming Forehead - released in 2007 - with a score of 55% based on 11 reviews.
A sunny singer, dancer and comic actress, Betty Garrett starred in several Hollywood musicals and stage roles. She was at the top of her game when the Communist scare in the 1950s brought her career to a screeching, ugly halt. She and her husband Larry Parks, an Oscar-nominated actor, were summoned by the House UnAmerican Activities Committee and questioned about their involvement.
As the drama played out, a very pregnant Garrett was never called to testify, but her husband was. With his admission of Communist Party membership from 1941-1945 and refusal to name names, he made it to the Hollywood Blacklist. After the incident, Garrett and Parks worked up nightclub singing/comedy acts along with appearing in legit plays. Although Parks never quite shook off the blacklist incident, he did win a role in John Huston's film, Freud (1962). Garrett went on to appear in roles in many television series.
Betty Garrett has acted in films with Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Ann Miller and Esther Williams.
Betty Garrett has worked with these film directors: Jack Haley Jr., Larry Blamire, Gene Kelly and Glenn Jordan.
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