Betty Grable: The Girl with the Million Dollar Legs

by Tom McGee

Book Overview

This is a newsy, respectful, affectionate tribute to a trouper...-- Booklist This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1879511185
• ISBN13: 9781879511187
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Vestal Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A Personal Insight into Hollywood's Box Office Champ

Betty Grable was the star whose pinup photograph was the most popular among World War Two servicemen. The vibrant blonde star also set a record that has never come close to being equaled in reigning as Hollywood's female box office champ for an incredible ten years. What made movie fans throughout the world love Betty Grable?Scottish author Tom McGee supplies the answer to that question in his entertaining biography of the popular film great. A personal friend of Grable's who had the opportunity to interview her at length on many occasions, McGee etches an enduring portrait of a wholesome, caring woman who always put warmth as a human being and loyalties to family and friends above star persona. Ego was never a problem with the popular superstar in an industry often overcome by it. When one sees such a warm and totally unaffected woman emerge in the pages of "The Girl With The Million Dollar Legs" it becomes obvious that people the world over loved Betty Grable because of the vibrance, warmth, and sweetness they saw in her.McGee's book is also rich in photographs capturing Grable and the luminous era in which she starred. There is also a warmly affecting Foreword by fellow Twentieth Century Fox blonde glamour girl, Alice Faye. Grable and Faye became great friends with no animosity or jealousy ever emerging.This book is a must for Grable fans and all those who love the exciting cinema era of the forties and fifties. It is so refreshing to read a movie biography devoid of trashy gossip and petty commentary.

Meet the real Betty Grable!!!! What a star really is!

If you are a Betty Grable fan this is the book you want. It is written by Tom McGee who knew her and used her words to write it. Not only does it have her film history and fantastic photos of her, but it shows Betty Grable as she was when the cameras weren't rolling. In this age of stars with huge egos and terrible personalities it is great to find out Betty was such a wonderful person who loved life and those around her. A true star, a great actress and a wonderful woman who many people obbviously loved for more than her legs. She, like all of us had her faults and problems. But, she overcame them as only a person with her kind and wonderful personality could. With grace and dignity, which is a novelty in this day and age. Million dollar legs, with a Billion dollar personality. Great job Tom McGee!!! Thank you for sharing the real Betty Grable with us. Sure beats the heck outta those sloppy hearsay dirt-digging books we see about her. Want the truth about Betty as a person, this is the book for you!

grable the star

this book is fabulous.betty grable is the most popular female motion picture star in the quigley official motion picture financial poll featuring stars from 1933 - 1999 she sang , danced and tom mcgee features her million dollar legs to great effect a best buy book

Agree With Everyone Else

Totally impressed with this book. Great pictures and wonderful to read. I couldn't put the book down. Author obviously loved Betty like her serious fans do!

A marvallous read! From a reader in Spain.!st November 1999.

I have just read 'Betty Grable.The Girl with the Million Dollar Legs'.The best biography of a Hollywood star that I have ever read. I never had the pleasure of meeting Betty Grable but after reading Tom McGee's wonderful book, I feel as though I know her very well. Congratulations Mr. Mcgee and thankyou for sharing your memories of a legend, the great Betty Grable.