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Betty Grable is in "How to be Very, Very Popular,” “Three for the Show"
In 1929, as extra dancer at 20th. Mother’s ambition spurred her on. All Betty wanted was a horse!
To unambitious, easygoing Betty, movies brought fame — but no change in way of life, things she enjoyed
At Vicki’s christening. With Harry James she found perfect match, is content to let him be boss
For Betty Grable, life brought more than her dream — Harry, Vicki, Jessica. ranch full of horses!
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It was really an unbelievable coincidence that these two should both become movie stars. Because all their lives they were looking for different things
• In the hot noonday sun of a sweltering midwestern summer, Billie Cassin rested against the wooden steps of her house and let the garden hose cool her feet.
She was caught in a dream. A dream in which she was dancing in front of a red velvet curtain on a red velvet stage — the greatest dancer in the world. In the audience sat a prince. Now he stood, now he bowed, now he asked her to marry him. And as six-year-old Billie had done many times before, she re
fused. She wasn’t quite sure why. It had something to do with too much to do, too much to see and, somehow, a prince was not quite enough for her. There was a yearning in her that a prince couldn’t satisfy.
She. shook her head at the thought. Then standing up, she ran across the wet lawn. Suddenly, screaming in pain, she collapsed. She’d stepped on a broken bottle, cut a vein. Her foot was covered with blood. ( Continued on page 116)
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