Agents were disguised as gravediggers and gardeners, per the FBI. One agent even acted as a decoy and posed as Grable — carrying a dummy package of money, the United Press reported. According to the ...

“When I have a song to sing,” says Betty Grable, by way of explaining her success as a movie star, “I feel good singing it. I don’t think, ‘Gee! I’m the greatest singer.’ ” Neither does Miss Grable ...

“I wanted the money only to enable me to see movie stars," he reportedly said The first extortion letter was written on Feb. 6, 1943. It was addressed to Betty Grable — then 26, a rising Hollywood ...