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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.


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Born:
May 28, 1918 In Alameda, California, USA
Movie/TV Credits:
38
First Appeared:
In the movie The Pilgrimage Play 1949-12-12
Latest Project:
Movie A Brand New Life 1973-02-20
Known For
Poster of The Andy Griffith Show
Poster of The Twilight Zone
Poster of The Great Gildersleeve
Poster of The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
Filmography
Movie A Brand New Life Margaret Kalman 1973-02-20
Movie The Adventures of Nick Carter Sister Effie 1972-02-20
Series The Waltons Unknown 1972-09-14
Movie Vanishing Point Communications Officer 1971-01-15
Movie Shoot Out Housekeeper 1971-07-02
Movie Escape from the Planet of the Apes Reporter at Hotel (uncredited) 1971-05-20
Series The Immortal Unknown 1970-09-24
Movie True Grit Mrs. Ross 1969-06-11
Movie The Sterile Cuckoo Landlady (uncredited) 1969-10-22
Series That Girl Unknown 1966-09-08
Series Batman Unknown 1966-01-12
Movie Batman Picnicking Woman (uncredited) 1966-07-30
Movie Zebra in the Kitchen Town Gossip 1965-06-01
Movie Cat Ballou Townswoman (uncredited) 1965-06-24
Movie House of Women Mrs. Potter 1962-04-11
Movie Don't Knock the Twist Ruth Emerson 1962-04-13
Movie The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse French Prisoner (uncredited) 1962-02-07
Series The Virginian Unknown 1962-09-19
Movie The Wild Westerners Martha Bernard 1962-06-06
Series The Andy Griffith Show Unknown 1960-10-03
Series Surfside 6 Unknown 1960-10-06
Movie The FBI Story Clerk (uncredited) 1959-10-01
Series The Twilight Zone Unknown 1959-10-02
Series Dennis the Menace Unknown 1959-10-04
Movie Teacher's Pet Clara Dibney (uncredited) 1958-04-01
Movie Going Steady Mrs. Armstrong 1958-02-01
Movie Marjorie Morningstar Miss Kimble (uncredited) 1958-04-24
Series 77 Sunset Strip Unknown 1958-10-10
Series M Squad Unknown 1957-09-20
Series Perry Mason Unknown 1957-09-21
Series The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp Unknown 1955-09-06
Series Gunsmoke Unknown 1955-09-10
Series The Great Gildersleeve Unknown 1955-09-20
Movie Thunder Pass Mrs. Hemp 1954-09-20
Series Letter to Loretta Unknown 1953-09-20
Movie Plymouth Adventure Elizabeth Hopkins 1952-11-28
Series The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok Unknown 1951-04-15
Movie The Pilgrimage Play Woman of Samaria 1949-12-12