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Elizabeth Harrower

Elizabeth Harrower

Betty Louise Foss was born during the final days of World War I in Alameda, California as the country plagued by a flu epidemic. Within six weeks, her mother died, her father had a nervous breakdown, and relatives passed her care around. As babies were thought to draw the deadly flu, Betty was eventually placed in a San Francisco orphanage where she was later adopted by Scottish immigrants William and Jessie Harrower and raised in Berkeley and Los Angeles. During the Great Depression her adoptive father's salary was cut in half and her adoptive mother decided to take Betty out of school and off to Hollywood to begin an acting career. After trying out several alter egos in the hopes of making an impression on someone in the industry, Betty Foss eventually settled on the identity of Elizabeth Harrower. Elizabeth Harrower appeared in "Becky Sharp (1935)", the first feature-length color film in 1935. She would continue to appear in hundreds of radio, television, film and stage productions over the next decades, most notably "True Grit (1969)". In 1942, Harrower married Harry Seabold, an Air Force cadet she had met in fifth grade. Their daughter, actress Susan Seaforth Hayes, was born in 1943. Her husband was called into war even before that and the marriage subsequently did not last. By the 1970s Elizabeth Harrower had met soap opera scribe William J. Bell and she would eventually start her writing career and became head writer of "Days of Our Lives (1965)" from 1979-1980. She went on to write for Bell's "The Young and the Restless (1973)" in the 1980s. Her last writing stint was on the short-lived soap opera "Generations (1989)" in 1991. In 2003, already while taking chemotherapy she had a prominent limited run as Charlotte Ramsey on "The Young and the Restless (1973)". She died shortly thereafter at age 85.

Personal information

Birthday

1918-05-28

Birth Place

Alameda, California, USA

Movies and TV shows :

poster

77 Sunset Strip

1958

6.7

TV
A Brand New Life

A Brand New Life

1973

0.0

Movie
Batman

Batman

1966

6.4

Movie
poster

Batman

1966

7.3

TV
Cat Ballou

Cat Ballou

1965

6.3

Movie
poster

Columbo

1971

8.1

TV
poster

Dennis the Menace

1959

6.7

TV
Does Christ Live in Your Home?

Does Christ Live in Your Home?

1951

0.0

Movie
Don't Knock the Twist

Don't Knock the Twist

1962

4.7

Movie
Escape from the Planet of the Apes

Escape from the Planet of the Apes

1971

6.4

Movie
poster

Four Star Playhouse

1952

6.1

TV
Going Steady

Going Steady

1958

7.0

Movie
poster

Gunsmoke

1955

6.5

TV
House of Women

House of Women

1962

5.4

Movie
I Love You...Good-bye

I Love You...Good-bye

1974

0.0

Movie
poster

Letter to Loretta

1953

6.2

TV
poster

M Squad

1957

5.2

TV
Marjorie Morningstar

Marjorie Morningstar

1958

6.2

Movie
poster

Mayberry R.F.D.

1968

5.7

TV
poster

Perry Mason

1957

7.7

TV
Plymouth Adventure

Plymouth Adventure

1952

5.5

Movie
poster

Shane

1966

6.0

TV
Shoot Out

Shoot Out

1971

6.3

Movie
poster

Surfside 6

1960

5.0

TV
Teacher's Pet

Teacher's Pet

1958

6.8

Movie
poster

That Girl

1966

6.1

TV
The Adventures of Nick Carter

The Adventures of Nick Carter

1972

1.0

Movie
poster

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

1951

4.5

TV
poster

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

1962

7.8

TV
poster

The Andy Griffith Show

1960

7.6

TV
The FBI Story

The FBI Story

1959

6.1

Movie
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

1962

5.9

Movie
poster

The Great Gildersleeve

1955

0.0

TV
poster

The Immortal

1970

7.4

TV
poster

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp

1955

6.7

TV
The Pilgrimage Play

The Pilgrimage Play

1949

3.5

Movie
The Sterile Cuckoo

The Sterile Cuckoo

1969

5.4

Movie
poster

The Twilight Zone

1959

8.4

TV
poster

The Virginian

1962

6.4

TV
poster

The Waltons

1972

7.1

TV
The Wild Westerners

The Wild Westerners

1962

7.0

Movie
Thunder Pass

Thunder Pass

1954

6.0

Movie
True Grit

True Grit

1969

7.4

Movie
Vanishing Point

Vanishing Point

1971

7.1

Movie
Zebra in the Kitchen

Zebra in the Kitchen

1965

5.0

Movie