Betty Grable

She became a prolific actress and acted in over 40 films because of her demanding mother who wanted that her daughter would learn singing and dancing.

This girl whose perfect legs were insured by The Twentieth Century Fox for $1.000.000 per leg, was also a good model and a beautiful pin-up.

She made her debut in cinema when she was only 13 in the musical films "Happy Days" (1930) directed by Benjamin Stoloff, "Let's Go Places" (1930) by Frank Strayer, and "Whoopee" by Eddie Cantor.

But the first important films in which she acted were "Cavalcade" (1933) directed by Frank Lloyd, "The Gay Divorcee" (1934) by Mark Sandrich, "The Nitwits" (1935) by George Stevens, "Follow The Fleet" (1936) by Mark Sandrich, "Pigskin Parade" (1936) by David Butler, and "College Swing" (1938) by Raoul Walsh.

In 1937 she married the actor Jackie Coogan who was well known as the child of Charles Chaplin's film "The Kid" (1921). A few years later she divorced him but before that they played together in Edward Dmytryk's film "Million Dollar Legs" (1939) in which she was the main actress. Over 40's decade she played in more films such as "Down Argentine Way" (1940) by Irving Cummings, "Tin, Pan, Alley" (1940) by Walter Lang, "A Yank in The RAF" (1941) by Henry King, "I Wake Up Screaming" (1941) by H. Bruce Humberstone, "Moon Over Miami" (1941) by Walter Lang, "Spring Time in The Rockies" (1942) by Irving Cummings, "That Lady in Ermine" (1948) by Ernst Lubitsch and Otto Preminger an "The Beautiful Blonde From Bashful Bend" (1949) by Preston Sturges.

In 1947 she married the musician Harry James and she divorced him twenty two years later in 1965.

In 1953 she played in Jean Negulesco's famous comedy "How To Marry a Millionare" by the side of Lauren Bacall and Marilyn Monroe.

Over years she was the best paid actress from Hollywood and thanks to her famous swimsuit photography she became the most desired girl between american soldiers during the Second World War.

She died because of a lung cancer when she was 56.