Betty Grable
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Sep 24, 2026
ChrisHOST
Turner.
ChrisHOST
What movie starred Lauren Bacall, Betty Grable, and Marilyn Monroe on The Prowl for Husbands?
Mike TurnerGUEST
How to Marry a Millionaire?
ChrisHOST
How to Marry a Millionaire is a correct answer.
Brandon DavisHOST
you know, career interesting and just the different ups and downs.
Brandon DavisHOST
And yet he was able to do some good work with people like Betty Grable or Linda Darnell as well.
Howard GutnerGUEST
He did some incredible work after he left the Paramount, especially in the mid and late 40s.
Howard GutnerGUEST
You know, he didn't do a lot of research on the period for, say, Scarlet Empress, Dietrich's and von Sternberg's Fantasia, or Cleopatra.
Howard GutnerGUEST
Specifically mentioned costumes.
Howard GutnerGUEST
I think his clothes for those two films are incredible.
Howard GutnerGUEST
And Betty Grable, as you said, in musicals.
Howard GutnerGUEST
And that it's really, really kind of tragic that he made that huge comeback designing Rosalind Russell's costumes for the stage version of Anti-Main, which were just celebrated.
EB JohnsonHOST
If you were to look on Wikipedia, this is how it would be described: "The Earl Carroll Theater opened on December 26, 1938, with a lavish review, Broadway to Hollywood, which featured 60 showgirls ascending 100 treads of stairs to a feet of 135 feet.
EB JohnsonHOST
Many Hollywood celebrities were in attendance, including Marlena Dietrich, Dolores del Rio, the J.L. Warners, Richard Barthelmess, Barthelmess? Richard Barthelmess, Sally Eilers, Edgar Bergen, Claudette Colbert, Constance Bennett, Er- Errol Flynn, Lily Damita, William Gargan, Jackie Coogan, Betty Grable, Mary Livingstone, Phil Harris, Conrad Nagel, Mary Brian, Darryl Zanuck," wink, and David O.
EB JohnsonHOST
Selznick, that's the big wink, "and Norman Krasna.
EB JohnsonHOST
The $1,000 membership fee guaranteed a lifetime cover charge and a reserved seat." Notice several of those men, if you go over to my Patreon and look at my deep dive into, to Lois Andrews, I've got the paper hunted down, a list of her suitors that she dated while she was a child, and many of those names will pop up on that list.
Tim DennisHOST
Um-
Richard L. CarricoGUEST
No, no, it, it wasn't, and when we look back, we talk about Betty Grable or Rita Hayworth or Marilyn Monroe.
Tim DennisHOST
Mm-hmm.
Richard L. CarricoGUEST
And, and, and today it's, it's more like, because of Playboy magazine and, and the men's magazines today and all that, it's like, no, these were, these were, these were famous actresses at the time, and they were, they were, you know, Midwestern girls with a n- a great body, and they were.
Forrest MillerHOST
The movie is a much more condensed version of the stage musical.
Forrest MillerHOST
Before Marilyn Monroe and Jade Russell were cast as Lorelai and Dorothy Shaw, Betty Grable and Ginger Rogers were going to be cast.
Forrest MillerHOST
But Marilyn Monroe stole the show in the movie Niagara, and Fox saw it cheaper because of where she was in her career and more impressive sex symbol they could market in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
Forrest MillerHOST
Jane Russell was a much bigger star than Marilyn Monroe at the time, although it's hard to believe now, and actually got paid way more than she did, $200,000 to Marilyn Monroe's mere $18,000 to do the film.
Jeremy ScottNARRATOR
Actually, don't.
Jeremy ScottNARRATOR
Not at least taking the ammo from the enemy guy you decided to spare because he let you go earlier when you were talking about Betty Grable's gams.
speaker_2SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Those 60 rounds! We can use them without the tube! How?
Jeremy ScottNARRATOR
I didn't know we were saving Private MacGyver.
Vicki LawrenceGUEST
Yeah.
Billy CorganHOST
Uh, Dinah Shore, Cass Elliot, Rock Hudson, Cher, Don Rickles, Gloria Swanson, Ella Fitzgerald, Joan Rivers, Phyllis Diller, Betty Grable, Sid Caesar, Jonathan Winters, Robert Goulet, Bob Hope, Peggy Lee, Betty White, of course, who became more of a regular over time, Liza-
Vicki LawrenceGUEST
Yeah
Billy CorganHOST
... uh, who's just put out a book, God bless her, and turned 80, and Dick Van Dyke, who at some point became, like, a cast member for a short period of time.
Carol BurnettGUEST
And we had to sing a little bit.
Carol BurnettGUEST
I always loved Betty Grable.
Carol BurnettGUEST
And
Ben MankiewiczHOST
I
Carol BurnettGUEST
thought, okay, I'm going to be Betty Grable with a cockney accent.
Carol BurnettGUEST
So I did the singing.
Ben MankiewiczHOST
Why did you decide to do Betty Gryffindor? Because
Kayla MoriaHOST
Goldwyn girls were female chorus line dancers and actresses employed by the film producer Samuel Goldwyn.
Kayla MoriaHOST
And these women were featured in his company's musical comedies and were known for their beauty and talent, with famous actresses like Betty Grable, Virginia Bruce, and Lucille Ball getting their start as Goldwyn girls.
Brittany LindHOST
That's awesome.
Brittany LindHOST
I mean, it actually probably wasn't a super great working environment, but...
BrettHOST
But that, that's a movie about a guy sort of saving, uh, this, um, lost woman, you know, uh, from the street.
BrettHOST
And, um, and then the, the other, How to Marry a Millionaire with Lauren Bacall and Betty Grable and, uh, Marilyn Monroe, um, that's interesting, too.
BrettHOST
We have- 'cause that becomes part of the cryptography, too, right? Where you see the three dolls who are, like, the three...
BrettHOST
Now this is sort of monarch language, too, who are, like, the three alters, um-
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