14 Facts About Betty Bronson

Elizabeth Ada Bronson was an American film and television actress who began her career during the silent film era.

Betty Bronson was born in Trenton, New Jersey, to Frank and Nellie Smith Betty Bronson.

Betty Bronson began her film career at the age of 16 with a bit part in Anna Ascends.

Betty Bronson appeared alongside actresses Mary Brian and Esther Ralston, both of whom remained lifelong friends.

Betty Bronson played Mary, mother of Jesus, in the 1925 silent film adaptation of Ben-Hur, although she was only onscreen for a few seconds she made an appearance in the experimentally colored segment.

Betty Bronson made a successful transition into sound films with The Singing Fool, co-starring Al Jolson.

Betty Bronson appeared in the sequel, Sonny Boy, with Davey Lee in 1929.

Betty Bronson was the leading lady opposite Jack Benny in the romantic drama The Medicine Man.

Betty Bronson continued acting until 1933 when she married Ludwig Lauerhass, "a well-to-do North Carolinian", with whom she had one child, Ludwig Lauerhass, Jr.

Betty Bronson did not appear in films again until Yodelin' Kid from Pine Ridge starring Gene Autry.

Betty Bronson's last role was an uncredited part in the television biopic Evel Knievel.

Betty Bronson was reclusive with the press, but received attention after being seen with Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

Betty Bronson had his first boyhood crush on her, as he remembered in his autobiography The Salad Days:.

On October 19,1971, Betty Bronson died after a protracted illness in Pasadena, California, and was interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.