Talk:Betty Luster

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The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. -- Yamara 23:52, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Dates and such
I still can't find any records of her birth date, or even of her age at any given time. No obits, either; I don't know if she's still alive or dead.

Genealogy sites list several Betty Lusters, many over 70 years old, spread across the country, so that's no help. Likely it was just a stage name, but I've no proof of that.

Anyway, the point is, any help or information on Ms. Luster would be appreciated. Cheers. -- Yamara 12:37, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Breakthrough
Pictues of Luster have shown up on jamd.com, and one has a caption:

In The Bag

22nd October 1938: 16 year old American dancer Betty Luster, a showgirl with the Dorchester Hale dance troupe, shopping at a market in London. Original Publication: Picture Post - 138 - A Glamour Girl's Day - pub. 1938 (Photo by Kurt Hutton/Picture Post/Getty Images)

So searching can renew for Betty Luster with a birth date of 1921/1922, and the name "Luster" now a more likely maiden name. -- Yamara ✉  20:47, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Yearbook
Could this be a mention of her? It's from the campus yearbook of Pasadena Junior College circa 1938, at which point Luster would have been 16, assuming she was born in 1922. The entry is about the college's drama productions, and ends with mention of "LORD'S PRAYER: Francois Coppee's gripping one-act play, "The Lord's Prayer," was Pasadena's entry in the one-act play Tournament. Rachel Reid, assisted by Betty Luster, Frederick Smith, Charles Ross, Mabel Prouty, Murray Stone, and Harold Wolfe were leads". Presumably she popped off to London later in the year. There can't have been many Betty Lusters of that particular age based in California in the entertainment business. Unfortunately you have to subscribe to see the full page, which has photographs. -Ashley Pomeroy (talk) 18:14, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Good catch. E-yearbook.com also lists a Betty Luster for the University of Southern California in 1947, though that one seems to have no picture waiting behind the paywall, and has no theatre connections. I wonder if anyone has an account and take a peek at your link? - Yamara ✉  00:28, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

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