Betty Graffina Leabo Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Best remembered as the second talking-era "Jane" (following Maureen O'Sullivan) of the durable Tarzan jungle film series and the only one in the sound era to play the role opposite two different Tarzan's (Johnny Weissmuller and Lex Barker, lovely Brenda was born Betty Leabo in Missouri, raised in Los Angeles, and nicknamed "Graftina" by her father...
July 4, 2009, Santa Monica, California, United States
Place Of Birth
Excelsior Springs, Missouri, USA
Height
5' 4" (1.63 m)
Profession
Actress
Nationality
American
Spouse
Owen Ward
Children
Timothy Owen Ward, Beth Victoria Ward, Pamela Ann Ward
Music Groups
The Undisputed Truth
Movies
Tarzan and the Amazons, Tarzan and the Leopard Woman, Tarzan and the Mermaids, Tarzan and the Huntress, Tarzan's Magic Fountain, The Rains Came, Pillow of Death, Strange Confession, The Spider Woman Strikes Back, Little Old New York, Little Giant, Here I Am a Stranger, Little Tokyo, U.S.A., Whisperi...
Star Sign
Pisces
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Quote
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I was never enamored of Hollywood and films. The only good friend I had at 20th Century-Fox was Gene Tierney. Also, the Publicity Department people became good friends.
2
I didn't live near the studios in the hopes of "crashing" the gates. My ambition was to always be active in "little theater" and also to be a professor of Speech and Drama at U.C.L.A.
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Fact
1
In 1948 Brenda Joyce was announced for a role in the forthcoming 20th Century-Fox Picture Down to the Sea in Ships (1949). But she decided to retire at that time and leave Hollywood, eventually not appearing in the film.
2
Her eldest child, daughter Pam, was born on November 9, 1942, and was once publicized as "Hollywood's First War Baby".
3
Brenda was married three times. Her first husband, Owen Ward, was the father of her three children. The marriage lasted 19 years. Her second (to a naval officer named Bemis) and third (to a one-time Beverly Hills business manager of Elizabeth Taylor and Ginger Rogers named Howard Mager) were much shorter and also ended in divorce.
4
According to an in-depth article by David Ragan for Classic Images (June 2010), Gene Tierney was Brenda's closest Hollywood friend and her maid of honor when she married Owen Ward in 1941.
5
Took her stage name from silent screen vamp Alice Joyce.
$1.3 Million
