ACTOR

Betsy Blair

1923 - 2009

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Betsy Blair (born Elizabeth Winifred Boger; December 11, 1923 – March 13, 2009) was an American actress of film and stage, long based in London. Blair pursued a career in entertainment from the age of eight, and as a child worked as an amateur dancer, performed on radio, and worked as a model, before joining the chorus of Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe in 1940. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Betsy Blair has received more than 1,351,346 page views. Her biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Betsy Blair is the 3,138th most popular actor (up from 3,320th in 2019), the 4,759th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,149th in 2019) and the 1,416th most popular American Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.4M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.03

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.59

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.29

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Betsy Blairs by language

Over the past year Betsy Blair has had the most page views in the with 168,346 views, followed by Spanish (12,790), and Italian (6,691). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Indonesian (142.00%), Southern Azerbaijani (126.52%), and Afrikaans (69.77%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Betsy Blair ranks 3,138 out of 13,578. Before her are Tapio Rautavaara, RuPaul, Jerry Zucker, Svetlana Bojković, Carol Burnett, and Margaret Sullavan. After her are Cheryl Ladd, Georges Guétary, Christopher Atkins, Maria Ouspenskaya, Michael Moriarty, and Tim Kang.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Betsy Blair ranks 233. Before her are Ida Vitale, Ellsworth Kelly, Jesús Rafael Soto, Louise Brough, Barney Kessel, and Jacob Taubes. After her are Alice Coachman, Rafael Addiego Bruno, Og Mandino, Mrinal Sen, Mikhail Yegorov, and Brendan Behan. Among people deceased in 2009, Betsy Blair ranks 177. Before her are Gayatri Devi, Alain Bashung, Adolf Merckle, Karen Harup, Fritz Darges, and Grigore Vieru. After her are Dom DeLuise, Tomislav Crnković, Marilyn French, Venetia Burney, Hans Klenk, and Riccardo Cassin.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Betsy Blair ranks 4,759 out of 20,380. Before her are Marvin Hamlisch (1944), Margaret Sullavan (1909), Jim Courier (1970), Loretta Lynn (1932), Kay Ivey (1944), and Janet Asimov (1926). After her are Robert Barro (1944), Cheryl Ladd (1951), Stanley Cavell (1926), Alice Coachman (1923), Edward Chamberlin (1899), and Elvin Hayes (1945).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Betsy Blair ranks 1,416. Before her are Ward Bond (1903), Carrie Snodgress (1945), RuPaul (1960), Jerry Zucker (1950), Carol Burnett (1933), and Margaret Sullavan (1909). After her are Cheryl Ladd (1951), Christopher Atkins (1961), Michael Moriarty (1941), Tim Kang (1973), Thomas Jane (1969), and David Hedison (1927).

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Television and Movie Roles

Marty
Clara Snyder
Marty, a butcher who lives in the Bronx with his mother is unmarried at 34. Good-natured but socially awkward he faces constant badgering from family and friends to get married but has reluctantly resigned himself to bachelorhood. Marty meets Clara, an unattractive school teacher, realising their emotional connection, he promises to call but family and friends try to convince him not to.
Apr 11o 19557.4 / 10
Main Street
Isabel
A small town in Spain, October 1955. Isabel, a 35-year-old dreamer who feels like a failure because she is not married yet, becomes the new target of a group of soulless pranksters.
Oct 26o 19566.777 / 10
Betrayed
Gladys Simmons
An FBI agent posing as a combine driver becomes romantically involved with a Midwest farmer who lives a double life as a white supremacist.
Aug 26o 19886 / 10