From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Betty Lawford February 1 1912 November 20 1960 was a United Statesbased English film and stage actress Her parents Ernest Lawford and Janet Slater Lawford were also actors and she was a cousin of the actor and socialite Peter Lawford Lawfords stage debut came in a Players Club production of Henry IV She followed that with appearances in Julius Caesar and The Lady Lies Her Broadway credits include Glamour Preferred 1940 Walk With Music 1940 The Women 1936 Theres Wisdom in Women 1935 Heat Wave 1931 The Lady Lies 1928 and King Henry IV Part I 1926 She was briefly married to the American actordirector Monta Bell She died at Roosevelt Hospital Manhattan following an illness of three weeks