More Than a PINUP!

THE ACTRESS WITH THE MILLION-DOLLAR LEGS WAS PROUD TO HELP AMERICAN MORALE DURING WWII

In the difficult and uncertain days of World War II, a pinup poster of Betty Grable brought a slice of home to American servicemen stationed around the world. Wearing a white one-piece bathing suit, the actress smiled playfully over her shoulder as she showed off legs that her movie studio once insured for $1 million. Betty never took her image too seriously, but she felt honored that her photo came to mean so much to GIs. “She would just say that she was a dancer who could act,” her daughter Victoria Colucci tells Closer. “But she felt that one of her greatest accomplishments in life was bringing a little happiness to our soldiers.” Born in St. Louis, Elizabeth Grable was pushed into the spotlight by her mother. “My grandfather was a stockbroker,”…

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Closer Weekly (Digital) - 1 Issue, November 15, 2021

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