Betsy Drake Biography

Fast Facts

• Was the third wife of famed actor Cary Grant, whom she met aboard the Queen Mary on a trip back to the U․S․ from England after her stage appearance in Elia Kazan's "Deep Are the Roots․"
• Made her screen acting debut opposite Cary Grant in the 1948 film "Every Girl Should Be Married․"
• Best known for playing Jenny Wells in "Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?" and Anna Perrott Rose in "Room for One More․"
• Was one of the founding members of Elia Kazan's Actors Studio in New York
• She and fellow actress Ruth Roman were passengers on the Italian ocean liner Andrea Doria when it sank in 1956