Betty ann de noon biography of williams
After Kiss Me, Kateclosed, it was back to the small screen for Betty Ann. She starred in The Big Payoff(51), The Red Buttons Show(52 – 54), Summer Holiday(with co-star Merv Griffin in 54), and the Jane Froman Show(she shared guest host honors with John Raitt while Jane was on vacation). For a while, she and Merv Griffin co-starred again in the Merv Griffin / Betty Ann Grove Show (see photo above to the left).
In 1953 she made the cover of TV Digest. Shortly thereafter, she was on the cover of Look Magazineas one of “America’s Most Televised Women.” Her recording of Waltzing Down the Aislewas a chart-topping hit.
In the late 50s, she co-starred on radio with Jim Backus in The Jim Backus Show. In the early 60s she moved on to regional theatres and the straw hat circuit, starring in stock productions of The Sound of Music, Hit the Deckand many others.
In the late 60s, it was back to Broadway, where she created the role of George M. Cohan’s mother in the hit Broadway musical George M!, starring with Joel Grey and Bernadette Peters. Shortly after George M!closed, Betty Ann married the love of her life, Roger Hunting, a successful trial lawyer and, eventually, New York City Civil Court Judge.
Betty Ann returned to Broadway in 1979 with I Remember Mama, opposite Liv Ullman, and again in a revival of Rodgers and Hart's On Your Toesin 83 and 84, appearing with Natalia Makarova and Dina Merrill.
In the early 90s, Betty Ann and Roger moved to Richmond, and we fell in love with the both of them.
Betty Ann, please know how much we’
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By Michael D. Hull
Several Hollywood stars served proudly in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II, including Tyrone Power, Louis Hayward, Lee Marvin, Macdonald Carey, Hugh O’Brian, Bill Lundigan, John Russell, Robert Ryan, Brian Keith, and Peter Ortiz. Power flew C-46 Curtiss Commando transport planes in the Pacific Theater, Hayward was a combat cameraman who filmed the bloody battle of Tarawa, Marvin was wounded on Saipan, Carey was an ordnance officer at Bougainville, Lundigan survived the bitter fighting on Peleliu, and Keith was a rear gunner on Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers flying missions against Rabaul and other Japanese bases in the Southwest Pacific. And then there was Sterling Hayden, a restless adventurer who served in the Marines before being seconded to the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), with which he served with distinction in the Balkans, France, Belgium, and Germany. One of the unsung heroes of the undercover war, he was awarded the Silver Star for displaying “great courage” in the Mediterranean Theater. Hayden had a lifelong love affair with the sea, and his boat was fittingly christened Wanderer.
Hayden’s Early Years
Born on Sunday, March 26, 1916, in a quiet neighborhood of Upper Montclair, New Jersey, Sterling Walter Hayden was a mischievous lad. After taking aim at a neighbor’s wife with a slingshot one day, he was beaten with a wet stick by his angry father. When the boy screamed his father collapsed from an apparent stroke, and died three months later. Sterling mourned for a long time.
His mother Frances landed a job with Good Housekeeping magazine, cared for her son, and then married divorcee James W. Hayden. The family trekked around during the Great Depression, stealing away from boarding houses and resort cottages under cover of darkness with bills unpaid. The disillusioned boy was sent to the Friends School in Washington, D.C. He hated it and quit after the 10th grade.
Sterling Hayden
American actor (1916–1986)
Sterling Walter Hayden (born Sterling Relyea Walter; March 26, 1916 – May 23, 1986) was an American actor, author, sailor, and Marine. A leading man for most of his career, he specialized in Westerns and film noir throughout the 1950s, in films such as John Huston's The Asphalt Jungle (1950), Nicholas Ray's Johnny Guitar (1954), and Stanley Kubrick's The Killing (1956). In the 1960s, he became noted for supporting roles, perhaps most memorably as General Jack D. Ripper in Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964).
Hayden's success continued into the New Hollywood era, with roles such as Irish-American policeman Captain McCluskey in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather (1972), alcoholic novelist Roger Wade in Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye (1973), elderly peasant Leo Dalcò in Bernardo Bertolucci's 1900 (1976), and chairman of the board Russell Tinsworthy in 9 to 5 (1980). With a distinctive "rapid-fire baritone" voice and an imposing stature at 6 ft 5 in (196 cm), he had a commanding screen presence in both leading and supporting roles.
Hayden often professed a distaste for acting and used his earnings to finance his numerous voyages as a sailor. He was also a decorated Marine Corps officer and an Office of Strategic Services' agent during World War II.
Biography
Youth and education
Hayden was born March 26, 1916, in Upper Montclair, New Jersey, to George and Frances (Simonson) Walter, who named him Sterling Relyea Walter. After his father died, Sterling was adopted at age nine by James Hayden and renamed Sterling Walter Hayden. As a child, he lived in coastal towns of New England.
Hayden dropped out of high school at the age of 16 and took a job as mate on a schooner. His first voyage was to Newport Beach, California, from New London,