1. Betsy Palmer performed in school plays all through childhood, graduated from East Chicago's Roosevelt High School in 1944, then attended East Chicago Business College.
21 Facts About Betsy Palmer
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Betsy Palmer hated it, she said, because she was shut off from people.
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Some time after Palmer took an aptitude test at the Chicago YWCA, which indicated a flair for the arts, her father brought a coworker home for dinner, a former New York actor who recommended she study with David Itkin.
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Betsy Palmer began working in summer stock in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, then in winter stock at the Woodstock Opera House in Woodstock, Illinois, with Paul Newman, and then summer stock in Chicago with Imogene Coca.
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Betsy Palmer got her first television acting job in 1951 when she joined the cast of the 15-minute weekday television soap opera Miss Susan, which was produced in Philadelphia, and all actors traveled each day from New York City by train.
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Betsy Palmer was "discovered" for this role by Norman Lessing while attending a party in the apartment of actor Frank Sutton, who was married to Toby Igler, the sister of Palmer's roommate, Sasha Igler.
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Betsy Palmer had been in Manhattan less than one week.
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Betsy Palmer became a familiar face on television as a news reporter on Today in 1958, and a long-running regular panelist on the quiz show I've Got a Secret.
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Betsy Palmer joined the show's original run, replacing Faye Emerson in 1958 and remaining until the show's finale in 1967.
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Betsy Palmer did not reprise her role in any of the various revivals of the show.
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Betsy Palmer was the last surviving member of the I've Got a Secret first version's cast.
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Betsy Palmer appeared as Kitty Carter in The Long Gray Line, starring Tyrone Power and Maureen O'Hara.
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Betsy Palmer starred alongside Anthony Perkins and Fonda again in the Paramount production of The Tin Star.
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In 1976, Betsy Palmer was the actress whom Tennessee Williams chose to embody the frustrated lead, Alma Winemiller, in his The Eccentricities of a Nightingale.
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Betsy Palmer's Mercedes-Benz stopped working on the highway to her home in Connecticut after a performance in New York City.
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In 1982, Betsy Palmer created the role of Suzanne Becker on the CBS daytime soap opera As the World Turns.
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Betsy Palmer acted in a Mayfield Dinner Theatre production of On Golden Pond in Edmonton, Alberta, in 1997.
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In 2002, Betsy Palmer provided the voice of the title character, the ghost of a witch, for the horror film Bell Witch: The Movie, released in 2007.
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Betsy Palmer dated James Dean; the two met while working on an episode of Studio One television series.
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Betsy Palmer died of natural causes on May 29,2015, at a hospice care center in Danbury, Connecticut.
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From 1953 to 2001, Betsy Palmer was a guest star on 73 television programs, including :.