Betta St. John
Betta St. John (* 26. November 1929 in Hawthorne , California , as Betty Jean Striegler ) is an American actress , singer and dancer . She was best known for her roles in movies like You and No Others , The Robe , The Black Pearl , Don't Look Back or City of the Dead .
Life
Betta St. John was born Betty Jean Striegler in Hawthorne, California in 1929. She made her film debut at the age of ten in George Marshall's western comedy The Great Bluff . She then played an orphan in Robert Stevenson's film adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's classic The Orphan of Lowood (1943). After the war they were seen in a multitude of different genres: in adventure films, westerns, crime films, comedies, dramas, horror films and also in musicals.
In Sidney Sheldon's romantic comedy You and No Other , she played alongside world stars like Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr in 1953 . She embodied Miriam in Henry Koster's bible drama Das Gewand . In Richard Thorpe's adventure film The Black Pearl , she stood in front of the camera alongside Robert Taylor and Stewart Granger .
She played female lead roles in 1954 in William Castle's historical film The Outrage alongside Ricardo Montalbán , in 1955 in Edgar G. Ulmer's drama Santiago - The Damned , which Maria Lopez played alongside Arthur Kennedy . In 1957 she hired director Philip Leacock for the female lead role of Joanna in the romantic drama Show Not Back . In Guy Green's mystery thriller she was seen in the part of Jean Edwards - Peter van Eyck had the male lead . With John Llewellyn Moxey's horror film City of the Dead with Dennis Lotis and Christopher Lee , she ended her cinema career in 1960.
Her television appearances from 1955 to 1965 include: The Vise , The Count of Monte Cristo , Guest at Errol Flynn , Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Presents , ITV Play of the Week , BBC Sunday-Night Theater , The Invisible , Armchair Theater , The Just Four , International Detective , Rendezvous and The Third Man .
Betta St. John's film career spans more than 30 international feature films and television series. From 1952 until his death in 1992 she was married to the English actor Peter Grant. The couple had three children.
Filmography (selection)
- 1939: The Great Bluff (Destry Rides Again)
- 1941: A woman's heart (Lydia)
- 1943: The Orphan of Lowood (Jane Eyre)
- 1953: You and no other (Dream Wife)
- 1953: The Robe (The Robe)
- 1953: The Black Pearl (All the Brothers Were Valiant)
- 1954: Blood in the Snow (Dangerous Mission)
- 1954: The rebels (The Saracen Blade)
- 1954: Alt-Heidelberg (The Student Prince)
- 1954: Damn Without Mercy (The Law vs. Billy the Kid)
- 1955: Santiago - The Naked Dawn
- 1957: Tarzan and the Lost Safari
- 1957: Don't Look Back (High Tide at Noon)
- 1958: The snorkel ( The Snorkel )
- 1958: Corridors of Blood
- 1960: Tarzan the Mighty (Tarzan the Magnificent)
- 1960: City of the Dead (The City of the Dead)
literature
- Betta St. John . In: Allan Bryce: Amicus: The Studio That Dripped Blood . Stray Cat, 2000.
Web links
- Betta St. John in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Portrait of Betta St. John in: The New York Times
- Films by Betta St. John with German distribution titles
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biographical data of Betta St. John in: John Willis: Screen World 1967 , Vol. 18, 1983, p. 230.
- ↑ Betta St. John . In: Adele Reinhartz: Bible and Cinema: Fifty Key Films . Routledge, 2012, p. 230.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | St. John, Betta |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Striegler, Betty Jean (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American actress, singer and dancer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 26, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hawthorne , California |