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.

电影 unavailable from Elizabeth Harrower

Marjorie Morningstar

Miss Kimble (uncredited)

电影 1958

Teacher's Pet

Clara Dibney (uncredited)

电影 1958

A Brand New Life

Margaret Kalman

电影 1973

Does Christ Live in Your Home?

电影 1951

Shoot Out

Housekeeper

电影 1971

Vanishing Point

Communications Officer

电影 1971

Zebra in the Kitchen

Town Gossip

电影 1965

Cat Ballou

Townswoman (uncredited)

电影 1965

Don't Knock the Twist

Ruth Emerson

电影 1962

House of Women

Mrs. Potter

电影 1962

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

French Prisoner (uncredited)

电影 1962

Going Steady

Mrs. Armstrong

电影 1958

The FBI Story

Clerk (uncredited)

电影 1959

The Sterile Cuckoo

Landlady (uncredited)

电影 1969

Thunder Pass

Mrs. Hemp

电影 1954

The Wild Westerners

Martha Bernard

电影 1962

Batman

Picnicking Woman (uncredited)

电影 1966

The Pilgrimage Play

Woman of Samaria

电影 1949

True Grit

Mrs. Ross

电影 1969

Escape from the Planet of the Apes

Reporter at Hotel (uncredited)

电影 1971

I Love You...Good-bye

Mrs. Freeman

电影 1974

电视剧 unavailable from Elizabeth Harrower

The Andy Griffith Show

Customer

Tv 1960

77 Sunset Strip

Tv 1958

Batman

Miss Prentice

Tv 1966

That Girl

Tv 1966

Gunsmoke

Mrs. O'Roarke

Tv 1955

Surfside 6

Tv 1960

Perry Mason

Woman Artist

Tv 1957

The Twilight Zone

Woman (uncredited)

Tv 1959

The Waltons

Tv 1972

The Immortal

Tv 1970

Dennis the Menace

Tv 1959

The Virginian

Mrs. Crandall

Tv 1962

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp

Tv 1955

M Squad

Walls' Secretary

Tv 1957

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

Tv 1951

Shane

Myra Torrey

Tv 1966

Letter to Loretta

Miss Himbler

Tv 1953

The Great Gildersleeve

Tv 1955

M Squad

Mrs. Michaels

Tv 1957

The Virginian

Mrs. Grant

Tv 1962

The Andy Griffith Show

Mrs. Hutchins

Tv 1960

Letter to Loretta

Mrs. Sims

Tv 1953

Gunsmoke

Mildred O'Roarke

Tv 1955

Mayberry R.F.D.

Mrs. Meredith

Tv 1968

Mayberry R.F.D.

Mrs. Brandt

Tv 1968

Four Star Playhouse

Nurse

Tv 1952

Four Star Playhouse

Housekeeper

Tv 1952

Perry Mason

Woman Apartment Manager

Tv 1957

Perry Mason

Mrs. Mangan

Tv 1957

Perry Mason

Sadie Noymann

Tv 1957

Columbo

Board Member (uncredited)

Tv 1971

Batman

Drusilla

Tv 1966

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

Mrs. Jones

Tv 1962

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

Mrs. Masters

Tv 1962