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Betty Grable was an actress from the 1930s to the 1950s, often appearing in romantic musicals. Some of her movies include: Million Dollar Legs, Tin Pan Alley, Moon Over Miami, and Down Argentine Way. She is perhaps best remembered for her famous sexy legs, and one of her pin-up images, which was one of the absolute most popular ones displayed by soldiers during World War II (at one time, her legs were insured for $1,000,000 by Lloyds of London!). She was married to actor Jackie Coogan, and then later to bandleader Harry James (with whom she had two children). She passed away in 1973 at the age of 56 from lung cancer.

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Important Added Info: Note that this personality poster is printed on a heavier photo paper-like stock, not what the studios used in the 1920s and early 1930s. Since the poster clearly dates from either the late 1930s or very early 1940s, it probably just means that they found better printing technology at this time

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Note that William Fox (later Fox Films, and beginning in 1935, as 20th Century-Fox) owned one of the leading Hollywood studios in the 1910s, and remained at the forefront of Hollywood for the next several decades (although they ran into big trouble in 1929, when they went bankrupt after trying to buy MGM, which is a very long story!). Through the decades, they had a great lineup of stars, and they created many sets of personality posters to promote them (we know of ones from the 1910s and the 1920s, and also ones from the 1940s, but we are not sure if they made more than a few in the 1930s, perhaps related to their financial troubles at that time). You can tell their different sets in two ways. One is that all of the posters from a set have the same border design and the stars and studio names are written in the same font and layout, although oddly, their personality posters from the 1940s usually have no printing on them, just stars' images and names, which is completely different from how almost every other studio created theirs. The other is that you can look at the age of the star in the image (although that might possibly be deceptive, because they might have sometimes used a slightly younger version of a star!). These posters are extremely rare as it is likely few theaters ordered them, and fewer still saved them, and in addition, they could be easily torn, and if they were not stored carefully, they would become fragile, and it is likely many were damaged and discarded for that reason! Note that some of the later Fox personality posters from the 1940s are NOT printed on high quality paper stock like that used for their earlier ones. All of these posters do not always age very well, and can become fragile (usually resulting in chips around the edges of the poster). Because of their fragile nature and their age, we intend to send all of these personality posters in large flat packages, and never roll them into tubes (unless the buyer insists)! PLEASE DO NOT BID ON THIS POSTER, UNLESS YOU ARE WILLING TO PAY THE COST OF SHIPPING IT IN A LARGE FLAT PACKAGE!

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