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<blockquote data-quote="ClassyCo" data-source="post: 444448" data-attributes="member: 7">According to the biographies I&#039;ve been skimming, it was Betty herself that wanted to stay sandwiched within musicals. Zanuck tried, on a few different occasions, to broaden her audience appeal (I WAKE UP SCREAMING; A YANK IN THE R.A.F.) when she was just becoming a big star, but Betty felt uncomfortable in those films. She insisted she was not an actress, but a star, a personality, and she would later refuse roles in films like THE RAZOR&#039;S EDGE and even PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET. Betty was apparently terrified at the thought of these films, feeling her public would laugh her right off the screen. Betty had a good solid decade during the 1940s. Every single one of her films was a hit -- some more than others, sure -- and she was sometimes the only female listed on the annual Top 10 box office stars. The quality of her movies is where critics and audiences eventually had their issue. Fox just eventually lost interest in Betty, partially because they had ran out of material for her. As early as 1948, there seems to have been plans to edging her out. They took to remaking her earlier films as early as 1950. WABASH AVENUE (1950) was a remake of CONEY ISLAND (1943), and CALL ME MISTER (1951) was a remake of A YANK IN THE R.A.F. (1941). But, yes, Betty was niche. She was pure escapism, but I enjoy her films. BELOW: Betty Grable, Darryl F. Zanuck, Marilyn Monroe, Lucille Ball, and Jimmy McHugh at Ciro&#039;s in 1953. [ATTACH=full]59638[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ClassyCo, post: 444448, member: 7"] According to the biographies I've been skimming, it was Betty herself that wanted to stay sandwiched within musicals. Zanuck tried, on a few different occasions, to broaden her audience appeal (I WAKE UP SCREAMING; A YANK IN THE R.A.F.) when she was just becoming a big star, but Betty felt uncomfortable in those films. She insisted she was not an actress, but a star, a personality, and she would later refuse roles in films like THE RAZOR'S EDGE and even PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET. Betty was apparently terrified at the thought of these films, feeling her public would laugh her right off the screen. Betty had a good solid decade during the 1940s. Every single one of her films was a hit -- some more than others, sure -- and she was sometimes the only female listed on the annual Top 10 box office stars. The quality of her movies is where critics and audiences eventually had their issue. Fox just eventually lost interest in Betty, partially because they had ran out of material for her. As early as 1948, there seems to have been plans to edging her out. They took to remaking her earlier films as early as 1950. WABASH AVENUE (1950) was a remake of CONEY ISLAND (1943), and CALL ME MISTER (1951) was a remake of A YANK IN THE R.A.F. (1941). But, yes, Betty was niche. She was pure escapism, but I enjoy her films. [B][I]BELOW: Betty Grable, Darryl F. Zanuck, Marilyn Monroe, Lucille Ball, and Jimmy McHugh at Ciro's in 1953. [/I][/B] [ATTACH type="full"]59638[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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