Betty Garde

Betty Garde
Born	Katharine Elizabeth Garde (1905-09-19)September 19, 1905 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died	Sherman Oaks, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1925–1971

Katharine Elizabeth "Betty" Garde (September 19, 1905 – December 25, 1989) was an American stage, radio, film and television actress.

Biography

Katherine Elizabeth Garde was born in Philadelphia and worked in New York for most of her acting career. On the stage since the early 1920s, she made her Broadway debut as Alma Borden in Easy Come, Easy Go and played character roles in productions including The Social Register and The Primrose Path. Betty Garde created the role of Aunt Eller in the original Broadway production of Oklahoma!.

In the 1930s she began to work extensively in radio, performing on some three dozen shows including Lorenzo Jones, Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, The Big Story, The Eddie Cantor Show, Front Page Farrell, Maudie's Diary, Perry Mason, Theatre Guild on the Air and The Fat Man. In 1934 Garde worked with Orson Welles on the CBS Radio series The American School of the Air, and she later performed in Welles radio series including Les Misérables, The Mercury Theatre on the Air, The Campbell Playhouse and Ceiling Unlimited.

Her most notable film role was probably in Call Northside 777 (1948), in which she played a prosecution witness whose testimony convicted an innocent man. The 5'10" Garde also had a major role in the 1950 movie Caged, as a murderous prison inmate, and in Cry of the City (1948). Her television credits include appearances on The Honeymooners (as the Kramdens' maid, Thelma) and two episodes of The Twilight Zone, including "The Midnight Sun" episode opposite Lois Nettleton.

Betty Garde died at the age of 84 in a hospital in Sherman Oaks, California. No cause was given and there were no immediate survivors.

Selected filmography

Film
Year	Film	Role	Notes
1929	The Lady Lies	Hilda Pearson
1930	Queen High	Florence Cole
1931	Damaged Love	Madge Sloan
	The Girl Habit	Hattie Henry
1948	Call Northside 777	Wanda Skutnik	Alternative title: Calling Northside 777
	Cry of the City	Miss Pruett
1950	Caged	Kitty Stark
1951	The Prince Who Was a Thief	Mirza
1955	One Desire	Mrs. O'Dell
1962	The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm	Miss Bettenhausen
Television
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1950	The Big Story	Annie	1 episode
1950–1951	Suspense		3 episodes
1954	The Mask	Mrs. Novak	1 episode
1955	The Honeymooners	Thelma	1 episode
1955–1959	The United States Steel Hour	Mom Mrs. Flynn	2 episodes
1956	General Electric Theater	Annie	1 episode
	The Edge of Night	Mattie Lane Grimsley	Unknown episodes
1957	Decoy	Landlady	1 episode
1957–1959	As the World Turns	Miss Tyler	Unknown episodes
1959	Mr. Lucky	Maybelle Towers	1 episode
1959–1960	The Real McCoys	Aggie Larkin	2 episodes
	The Untouchables	Norma Guzik Alice	2 episodes
1960	The Chevy Mystery Show	Mrs. Andrews	1 episode
	Adventures in Paradise	Queen Atea	1 episode
1961	The Islanders	Mme. Arbedutian	1 episode
	Shirley Temple's Storybook	The Flowerwoman	1 episode
	Checkmate	Sara	1 episode
	Route 66	Lydia Sullivan	1 episode
	The Twilight Zone	Passenger Mrs. Bronson	2 episodes
1962	Ben Casey	Florabelle Hanks	1 episode
	Car 54, Where Are You?	Ma Dearheart	1 episode
1971	All the Way Home	Aunt Sadie Follet	Television movie

External links

• Betty Garde at the Internet Broadway Database
• Betty Garde at the Internet Movie Database
• Betty Garde at the TCM Movie Database
• Betty Garde Digital Gallery at the University of Maryland Library