The Library of Congress > LCCN Permalink

View this record in:  MARCXML | LC Authorities & Vocabularies | VIAF (Virtual International Authority File)External Link

Drake, Betsy, 1923-2015

LC control no.no2002069951
Descriptive conventionsrda
Personal name headingDrake, Betsy, 1923-2015
    Browse this term in  LC Authorities  or the  LC Catalog
Variant(s)Grant, Betsy Drake, 1923-2015
Associated countryUnited States
Birth date1923-09-11
Death date2015-10-27
Place of birthNeuilly-sur-Seine (France)
Place of deathLondon (England)
Profession or occupationActors Novelists
Found inWill success spoil Rock Hunter?, c1996: opening credits (Betsy Drake)
Halliwell's WW in the movies, 2001 (Drake, Betsy; b. 1923; American leading lady, formerly on stage, married for a time to Cary Grant)
Internet movie database, Aug. 5, 2002 (Betsy Drake; b. Sept. 11, 1923, Paris; actress)
New York times WWW site, viewed Nov. 12, 2015 (in obituary published Nov. 11: Betsy Drake; b. Betsy Gordon Drake, Sept. 11, 1923, Neuilly-sur-Seine; her family returned to Chicago when she was 7; she was raised in New York, Virginia, North Carolina, Washington, D.C., and Westport, Conn.; d. Oct. 27, London, aged 92; film actress who starred alongside Cary Grant after bumping into him on the Queen Mary, eloping with him and remaining married to him longer than any of his other wives; appeared also on stage and radio; later wrote a novel titled Children, you are very little)
LCCN 70165207: Children, you are very little, 1971 (heading: Grant, Betsy Drake, 1923- )
Associated languageeng