Betty Farrington Trailers
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Betty Farrington (May 14, 1898 – February 3, 1989) was an American character actress active from the 1920s through 1960.
Born in Missouri's largest city, Kansas City, Betty Farrington would play mostly supporting and minor roles during her career, although she would occasionally be given a featured or leading part, appearing in almost 100 films during her career. Some of the more notable films she appeared in include: Preston Sturges' The Lady Eve (1941), starring Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda; 1942's My Favorite Blonde and 1947's My Favorite Brunette, both starring Bob Hope; the classic film noir Double Indemnity (1944), starring Fred MacMurray, Stanwyck, and Edward G. Robinson; 1944's The Uninvited, starring Ray Milland and Ruth Hussey; Cecil B. Demille's Unconquered (1948), starring Gary Cooper and Paulette Goddard; the epic Samson and Delilah (1950), with Victor Mature and Hedy Lamarr in the title roles; Father of the Bride (1950), directed by Vincente Minnelli, and starring Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, and Elizabeth Taylor; and Minnelli's 1953 The Band Wagon, starring Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse. Her final big screen appearance would be in 1956's The Fastest Gun Alive, starring Glenn Ford. Farrington would make guest appearances on several television shows in the late 1950s, including Sergeant Preston of the Yukon and Perry Mason. She died in San Diego three-and-a-half months before her 91st birthday.
Most Popular Betty Farrington Trailers
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22 December 1939
In this sequel to Four Daughters, Ann struggles to move on after the death of her husband as she falls in love with Felix, but on the day of her engagement discovers that she carries Mickey's child.
11 December 1937
A detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in '30s New York City.
17 April 1940
The Weavers are share-croppers who confront their landlord with their tale of woe only to find he is in money trouble too.
16 August 1940
Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has sentenced the wrong man to death.
12 August 1932
Clark & McCullough are arrested for disturbing the peace. They steal the police car and return it to the station.
01 December 1939
Joe and Ethel Turp are up in arms when their faithful old mailman is fired. Unable to get satisfaction on a municipal level, Joe and Ethel plead their mailman's case to the President himself.
25 May 1942
A singing cowboy (Gene Autry) and his partner (Bill Henry) thwart a foreman who wants their mine.
01 October 1942
In the shanty town called the Cabbage Patch, Mrs. Wiggs scrabbles for survival with her brood of children and hopes for the return of her husband, who left many years before.
09 July 1930
A dog catcher is rejected by the army, but sneaks in with his dog.
22 November 1951
Eric Wainwright, a busy impresario, is besieged by hordes of wannabe concert stars, eager for their big break.
18 May 1950
Proud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she announces her engagement through to the wedding itself, we learn of all the surprises and disasters along the way.
29 March 1939
When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is sentenced to death for a murder that he wasn't involved in.
29 October 1946
In 1940s Los Angeles, when womanizing composer Keith Vincent is found dead, the inquest concludes it was a suicide but police detective Joe Warne isn't so sure.
06 July 1944
An insurance representative is seduced by a dissatisfied housewife into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, a claims investigator.
24 April 1942
Sadistic killer-for-hire Philip Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills.
05 May 1946
Arriving at Medicine Bow, eastern schoolteacher Molly Woods meets two cowboys, irresponsible Steve and the "Virginian," who gets off on the wrong foot with her.
24 January 1941
A medicine show man tries to con people into believing he's a legitimate stage actor.
24 December 1943
A writer for a radio program needs some fresh ideas to juice up his show. For inspiration, he rents a room with a typical American family and begins to secretly write about their true life antics.
01 September 1938
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match.
01 July 1942
A policeman's family helps to exonerate him of murder charges in the death of a man he had under interrogation.
19 March 1947
Ronnie Jackson is a lowly baby photographer who secretly fantasizes about being a private detective. When a lovely baroness actually mistakes him for one and asks him to help locate her missing husband, Baron Montay, Ronnie finds himself agreeing.
31 August 1934
Left only with their yacht after going broke in the Great Depression, a high-society family sets sail for the South Seas.
25 February 1941
It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Charles' fortune.
28 July 1934
Asaph (Charles Ruggles) is a meek, mild-mannered homebody who occasionally shows some backbone to his prudish, overbearing boss, only to be beaten down again.
25 September 1943
An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort.
01 August 1940
Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud.
12 July 1956
Whenever it becomes known how good he is with guns, ex-gunman George and his wife Dora have to flee the town, in fear of all the gunmen who might want to challenge him.
10 February 1939
A couple struggle to find happiness after a whirlwind courtship.
15 April 1940
When transplanted Texan Bob Seton arrives in Lawrence, Kansas he finds much to like about the place, especially Mary McCloud, daughter of the local banker.
15 January 1932
A drunken husband tries to sneak in but his wife catches him... and that means trouble!
25 October 1935
An unemployed loafer who spends his time playing pool decides he's ready to look for a job so he can secure his girlfriend's parents' approval for their marriage.
31 December 1941
Falsely convicted of murder, young Robert Draper escapes custody during a practice blackout drill. Under cover of darkness, Draper hopes to find the real killer, who turns out to be a member of a Nazi sabotage ring.
12 November 1936
The small-town prudes of Lynnfield are up in arms over 'The Sinner,' a sexy best-seller. They little suspect that author 'Caroline Adams' is really Theodora Lynn, scion of the town's leading family.
01 May 1936
A Florida-bound train is filled with romance and intrigue when one of the passengers disappears while carrying $11-million in unset jewels.
04 March 1946
A student nurse falls in love with a young intern in 1910 Baltimore, but tragedy ensues when he contracts a fatal disease.
23 April 1932
A female editor of a magazine falls in love with her male secretary.
02 November 1944
In 1923, two young ladies depart, unescorted, for a tour of Europe. Their great naïvité and efforts to seem grown-up lead them into many comic misadventures.
12 January 1935
Director William C. McGann's 1935 film stars Gloria Stuart and Ross Alexander as a young couple in love who face economic woes once they're wed.
22 September 1941
Dr. Ralph Snyder and Dr. Frank Blake open an office together but soon split over a rivalry for nightclub singer Diana Wayne and a difference over ethics.
25 September 1936
A hardened criminal is transformed into a responsible member of society after he undergoes plastic surgery.
17 August 1940
An embezzler's wife begs his boss for forgiveness, only to fall in love with him.
30 March 1935
A playwright descended from the Borgia family becomes a murder suspect.
