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 fathers 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 Bells 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.
Miss Kimble (uncredited)
Film 1958
Clara Dibney (uncredited)
Film 1958
Margaret Kalman
Film 1973
Film 1951
Housekeeper
Film 1971
Communications Officer
Film 1971
Town Gossip
Film 1965
Townswoman (uncredited)
Film 1965
Ruth Emerson
Film 1962
Mrs. Potter
Film 1962
French Prisoner (uncredited)
Film 1962
Mrs. Armstrong
Film 1958
Clerk (uncredited)
Film 1959
Landlady (uncredited)
Film 1969
Mrs. Hemp
Film 1954
Martha Bernard
Film 1962
Picnicking Woman (uncredited)
Film 1966
Woman of Samaria
Film 1949
Mrs. Ross
Film 1969
Reporter at Hotel (uncredited)
Film 1971
Mrs. Freeman
Film 1974
Customer
Tv 1960
Tv 1958
Miss Prentice
Tv 1966
Tv 1966
Mrs. O'Roarke
Tv 1955
Tv 1960
Woman Artist
Tv 1957
Woman (uncredited)
Tv 1959
Tv 1972
Tv 1970
Tv 1959
Mrs. Crandall
Tv 1962
Tv 1955
Walls' Secretary
Tv 1957
Tv 1951
Myra Torrey
Tv 1966
Miss Himbler
Tv 1953
Tv 1955
Mrs. Michaels
Tv 1957
Mrs. Grant
Tv 1962
Mrs. Hutchins
Tv 1960
Mrs. Sims
Tv 1953
Mildred O'Roarke
Tv 1955
Mrs. Meredith
Tv 1968
Mrs. Brandt
Tv 1968
Nurse
Tv 1952
Housekeeper
Tv 1952
Woman Apartment Manager
Tv 1957
Mrs. Mangan
Tv 1957
Sadie Noymann
Tv 1957
Board Member (uncredited)
Tv 1971
Drusilla
Tv 1966
Mrs. Jones
Tv 1962
Mrs. Masters
Tv 1962