Early Life
Elizabeth Ruth Grable was born in St. Louis, Missouri to John Conn Grable (1883–1954) and Lillian Rose Hofmann (1889–1964), the youngest of three children. Most of her immediate ancestors were American, but her distant heritage was of Dutch, Irish, German and English stock.
Grable was propelled into the acting profession by her mother, making her debut at 12 years old as a chorus girl in the film Happy Days (1929). Her mother soon gave her a make-over which included dyeing her hair platinum blonde.
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