![]() ![]() ![]() This was followed by an inauspicious leading role in the B-grade Western The Dalton Gang (1949). ![]() Her first screen role was (appropriately) as a starlet in Paramount's Red, Hot and Blue (1949). The remainder of her time was spent taking speech and drama lessons (in due course losing her Southern twang) and making the rounds of the various Hollywood casting departments. For three days a week she made ends meet working as a secretary. Beautiful, talented and determined, the freshly minted 'Miss Little Rock' left home at the age of 19 to live with her aunt and uncle in California. Growing up in Arkansas, Betty expressed an early interest in acting and made her performing debut in a third grade play of "Hansel and Gretel". Betty May Adams was the daughter of a travelling Iowa cotton buyer with a penchant for alcohol.
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