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together in summer stock and in Las
Vegas and London, Parks' movie
career was finished. On April 13,
1975, he died of heart failure. He was
etty Garrett had it all. She
60 years old.
sang with Frank Sinatra and
Now, at 78, after years of silence,
Ethel Merman. She danced
Garrett tells their story in her book,
with Martha Graham and
Betty Garrett. and Other Songs: A Lift
Gene Kelly. She acted with Orson
on Stage and Screen (Madison Books;
Welles and Jack Lemmon. She per-
$23.95), which she co-wrote with Ron
formed on Broadway. She was in on
Rapoport.
MGM's golden era of musicals. She
Garrett is one of Hollywood's trea-
married the love of her life, actor
sures. She can play it straight, But
Larry Parks. And, best of all, together
she's_also a song-and-dance woman
they had two sons.
and a terrific comedian, as evidenced
But one day in 1947, a man came
on TV's "All in the Family" and
to their door and presented Parks with
"Laverne and Shirley."
a subpoena from the House Un-
And she's still going strong.
After 42 years, she recently
reunited with her My Sister
Eileen co-star Jack Lemmon in
CBS's "The Long Way Home."
Garrett didn't come up the
easy way. Her parents were
divorced when she was very
young, and she was raised by her
mother. After high school, she
and her mother moved to New
York and lived in a series of
rooming houses.
Garrett made her Broadway
dramatic debut with Welles'
Mercury Theater. She also
appeared in New Faces, did a
nightclub act at the Village
Vanguard and was in some
overtly political shows in the
early 1940s put on by the
American Youth Theatre.
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It was a time when she
thought the Communists, the
Socialists and other radical
groups were the only ones doing
anything about social issues like
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discrimination, housing and
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Spanish Civil War orphans.
But she writes that the real
reason
she
joined the Communist
American Activities Committee,
Party was to perform at fund-raisers
which was investigating subversive
for progressive causes. That's what got
activities in Hollywood. It would
her into trouble years later.
prove to be a defining moment. One
Her big break came in Cole Porter's
that would forever change their lives.
Something
for the Boys in 1942 when
Parks was ultimately blacklisted, as
Ethel
Merman
was out for a week
was Garrett. She eventually went back
with
laryngitis.
Eventually, Garrett
to work. And although they appeared
moved to Hollywood, where she met
Sandra Kreiswirth writes for Copley
Parks and married him four months
News Service.
SANDRA KREISWIRTH
Special to The Jewish News
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