Celebrity Story Shtupping Betty Grable
- Posted on 21st February 2017
- in celebrity books, celebrity stories online, celebrity story, Entertainment, entertainment books, funny celebrity stories, Hollywood books, Hollywood memoirs
- by Ben
A celebrity story is nothing strange in Las Vegas. I was there for nine months beginning in November of 1962 doing South Pacific at the Thunderturd Hotel. That’s what we actors called it. Real name: Thunderbird. The town was teeming with celebrities of all stripes from the Rat Pack at the Desert Inn to Jerry Vale (Remember him?) in some lounge.
Somehow this particular celebrity story got left out of my showbiz book, Three Stages.
Down the road at the Dunes there was a production of Guys & Dolls starring Betty Grable. Since we two were the only Broadway Shows playing in Las Vegas we tended to hang out, have parties and play together. A sort of expatriate Broadway community, as it were.
(I just realized I also left out the tale of the great Broadway-Desert Show League softball game. That’ll be another blog.)
Anyhow, during one of the many social events between the two isolated bands of musical theatre troupes one of our guys, Bobby Carle, met the pin-up girl of WWII the aforementioned Miss Grable who was, at forty-six or seven, still a knockout sexy babe and sufficiently senior as to have been Bobby’s mom.
Betty Grable
This minor fact was no deterrent to hormones and a passionate, run-of-the-show romance ensued. All of us (straight but for one exception) guys – in our twenties and early thirties – had grown up fantasizing about Betty Grable so we were both seriously jealous of Bobby and eager to hear tales of his sexual conquest.
To Mr. Carle’s credit all he’d say on the topic became a sort of nightly mantra. Whenever the subject came up, which was almost every night, he’d mutter, “I can’t believe I’m shtupping Betty Grable.”
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