Betty Bartley Nannariello (November 12, 1922 – September 10, 2013), known professionally as Betty Bartley, was an American television and film actress. She began her career as a child actor and continued in film, television, and stage performances including appearances in early talkies,[1] including The Laughing Lady.[2] Illustrator McClelland Barclay chose her in 1941 as the Ideal Streamlined Ziegfeld Girl.[3]
Early life
Betty Bartley was born on November 12, 1922.[4] Her mother, Elenor Marie McGraw (1892–1956), was the daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth McGraw of Seneca, New York.[5][6] Her mother first married Hugh Bartley and lived in Belle Harbor, Queens,[7] and then married Charles Devaney in 1933.[5][6][8] She lived her married life in Belle Harbor and the Rockaways, New York until her death in October 1956.[5][6] Bartley began acting as a child,[1] appearing in the talkie film The Laughing Lady in 1929.[2]
Career
In 1939 and 1940, she appeared in the Broadway musical revue The Streets of Paris.[9] Bartley was then a dancer in an Ed Wynn Broadway production in 1941.[3] She starred in a production of Three Men on a Horse at the Westchester Playhouse in 1946.[10] Her television performances before 1951 were on the shows Studio One, Man Against Crime, and Sure As Fate. In 1951, she was in the Broadway play Twentieth Century.[11] She was among the cast of the traveling production of Twin Beds in 1954.[12] In 1959, she starred in Bert Lahr's stage production of DuBarry Was a Lady.[13]
In 1946, Bartley married MGM stage and story editor Howard Hoyt,[15] with whom she had a son, William B. Hoyt.[1] Her second husband was director Walter Futter in 1955. The following year, Bartley gave birth to a baby who lived only eight hours. Their marriage ended in 1956,[16] and they began divorce proceedings in 1957.[17] Walter Futter died in 1958, while the couple was still separated.[18] In 1959 Bartley was said to lead a firm that made cinemascope lenses. She married advertising executive Edgar Krass in September 1959,[5] and they had a son in June 1960.[19][20] Their sons are Edgar B. Krass and Richard B. Krass.[1] By 1985,[20] she married John Nannariello, who died in 1993.[21]
^ ab"Broadway". The Pittsburgh Press at Newspapers.com. January 30, 1941. p. 15. Retrieved May 23, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.
^"Betty B. Nannariello", Voter Registration Lists, Public Record Filings, Historical Residential Records, and Other Household Database Listings, St. Petersburg, Florida, 1993
^ abcd"Comedienne Weds Adman". Daily News. September 18, 1959. p. 536. Retrieved May 23, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.
^Nielsen Business Media, Inc. (August 10, 1946). "On the Silo Circuit". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. p. 47. {{cite magazine}}: |author= has generic name (help)
^"Radio and Television". The Pittsburgh Press. January 23, 1951. p. 35. Retrieved May 23, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.
