A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Born:
December 6, 1910
Died:
March 26, 2005
Betty Arthur was born on December 6, 1910 in Indianapolis, Indiana USA as Elizabeth Kathryn Leopold. She was an actress, dancer and performer and appeared in The Phantom of the Opera (1925) and The Broadway Melody (1929) When Betty was seven-years-old the renowned ballerina Anna Pavlova visited Indiana and watched Betty dance. Pavlova was so impressed that she wanted to take Betty to New York to continue her career, but could not because of Betty's age. Later Betty came to Los Angeles in 1923, and continued her dancing with Ernest Belcher. She died on March 26, 2005 in Los Angeles, California.
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.