
Betty Furness
Highest Rated: 93% Swing Time (1936)
Lowest Rated: 56% Thirteen Women (1932)
Birthday: Jan 3, 1916
Birthplace: New York, New York, USA
Attractive blonde minor film actress of the 1930s (notably as the lead in "Midshipman Jack" 1933 and as featured player in "The Magnificent Obsession" 1935) who became a household name in the 1950s as a model opening refrigerator doors for Westinghouse television commercials and uttering the familiar catch phrase "You can be sure...if it's Westinghouse."




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Filmography
Movies
Credit | |||||
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89% | 94% | A Face in the Crowd | Self | - | 1957 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mama Steps Out | Leila Cuppy (Character) | - | 1937 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fair Warning | Kay Farnham (Character) | - | 1937 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | They Wanted to Marry | Sheila (Character) | - | 1937 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | It Can't Last Forever | Carol Wilson (Character) | - | 1937 |
80% | No Score Yet | The President's Mystery | Charlotte Brown (Character) | - | 1936 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mister Cinderella | Patricia "Pat" Randolph (Character) | - | 1936 |
93% | 86% | Swing Time | Margaret Watson (Character) | - | 1936 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Three Wise Guys | Clarabelle Brooks (Character) | - | 1936 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | All-American Chump | Kitty Crane (Character) | - | 1936 |
No Score Yet | 40% | Here Comes Cookie | Phyllis Allen (Character) | - | 1935 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Keeper of the Bees | Molly (Character) | - | 1935 |
67% | 53% | Magnificent Obsession | Joyce Hudson (Character) | - | 1935 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Shadow of Doubt | Lisa (Character) | - | 1935 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | McFadden's Flats | Molly McFadden (Character) | - | 1935 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gridiron Flash | Jane Thurston (Character) | - | 1935 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Calm Yourself | Mary Elizabeth Allenby (Character) | - | 1935 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Beggars in Ermine | Joyce Dawson (Character) | - | 1934 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Wicked Woman | Yancey Stroud, aka Yancey Trice (Character) | - | 1934 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Life of Vergie Winters | Joan Shadwell (Character) | - | 1934 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dangerous Corner | Betty (Character) | - | 1934 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Band Plays On | Kitty (Character) | - | 1934 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Let's Fall in Love | Linda (Character) | - | 1934 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lucky Devils | Ginger (Character) | - | 1933 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Scarlet River | Babe Jewel (Character) | - | 1933 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Crossfire | Pat "Mike" Plummer (Character) | - | 1933 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men | Evangeline (Character) | - | 1933 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Emergency Call | Alice (Character) | - | 1933 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Midshipman Jack | Ruth Rogers (Character) | - | 1933 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Great Jasper | Sylvia Bradfield (Character) | - | 1933 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Headline Shooter | Miss Saunders (Character) | - | 1933 |
56% | 35% | Thirteen Women | Thirteenth Woman (scenes deleted) (Character) | - | 1932 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Renegades of the West | Mary Fawcett (Character) | - | 1932 |
TV
Credit | ||||
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | What's My Line? | Guest | 1970 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Studio One | Betty Furness (Character) | 1954 1958 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Climax! | Unknown (Character) | 1955 1958 |