American actress Betta St. John, best known for her role in two Tarzan movies, has died aged 93.
The actress was also a singer and dancer who worked on Broadway, the West End, and in Hollywood films.
She played lovely island girl Liat in the original Broadway production of South Pacific and starred as a princess alongside Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr in the MGM romantic comedy Dream Wife. The California native played one of the survivors of an airline crash, who was chased by a crocodile in Tarzan and the Lost Safari — the first Tarzan film in 15 years and the first one in colour — and then returned for Tarzan the Magnificent .St. John died on June 23 of natural causes at an assisted living facility in Brighton.Her death was confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter by her son, TV producer Roger Grant.
Born Betty Jean Striegler in Hawthorne, California in 1929, St. John was part of the Meglin Kiddies troupe of actors, singers and dancers as a child, working alongside Shirley Temple. She made her film debut at 10-years-old with an uncredited part in 1939’s Destry Rides Again, which starred James Stewart and Marlene Dietrich.Going on to play an orphan in 1943’s Jane Eyre, that part was also uncredited, however she then switched her focus to the stage, playing a small role in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Broadway musical Carousel, from 1945 until 1947.
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