Betty Burgess

Betty Burgess was born on Feb 15, 1917 in USA. Betty Burgess's big-screen debut came with Pirate Party on Catalina Isle directed by Gene Burdette in 1935.

Betty Burgess was born Elizabeth Burgess on February 15, 1917, in Los Angeles, California. Her father worked for the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra. She began taking voice lessons and sang on the radio when she was just seven years old. Betty also studied tap dancing and learned how to play the guitar. She dreamed of being on the stage so she enrolled in a dramatic school. At the age of eighteen she was discovered by a talent agent and started appearing in local plays. The pretty blonde was just over five feet tall and weighed 100 pounds. In 1935 she beat out forty other actresses to land the lead role in the musical Coronado. Her performance in the film got rave reviews. Then she got supporting roles in the drama Tough To Handle and I Demand Payment.