Betsy Palmer Profile

Betsy Palmer

	(Patricia Betsy Hrunek)
1 November 26	is born in East Chicago, Indiana, of Czechoslovakian descent to Rudolph V. Hrunek, an industrial chemist, and his wife, Mary L. Hrunek, who operates a business school
?	works as a stenographer with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
49	graduates from DePaul University with a bachelor’s decree in dramatic arts
?	changes her name to Betsy Palmer, using her mother’s maiden name
?	is in Chicago summer stock with Imogene Coca and Mady Christians
c. 50	is crowned “Miss Liberty”
51	moves to New York and starts theater work
8 May 54	marries Dr. Vincent “Vinnie” Joseph Merendino, a New York gynecologist and obstetrician. He’s 37; she’s 26.
?	is in Broadway’s floppish Grand Prize
56	the Merendinos reside in Greenwich Village
May 56	she and her husband visit Jamaica
August 56	is a panelist on “Masquerade Party”
October 56	columnist Earl Wilson tells that Linda Darnell will replace her on “Masquerade Party”
	rejects a third Columbia script, risking suspension
57	starts as a panelist on “I’ve Got a Secret” as a substitute for Faye Emerson
June 58	the Merendinos buy a Georgian house in Englewood, New Jersey
Fall 62	her daughter Melissa, “Missy,” is born
65	is in a revival of South Pacific
March 66	Earl Wilson notes her and her husband “armed in arm to Girl Talk to spike separation rumors...”
April 66	tours the States in Peter Pan
January 68	stars in Broadway’s Cactus Flower
71	divorces Merendino after 19 years of marriage. He will die at age 90 in New Jersey in 2007.
?	moves to Rowayton, Connecticut
December 77	is on the New York stage opposite Don Murray in Same Time, Next Year
03	attends the Asheville Film Festival in Asheville, North Carolina
29 May 15	dies at age 88 in Danbury, Connecticut, of natural causes

Sources: Sunday Times Signal, The Post-Standard, The Lima News, The Daily Gleaner, Syracuse Herald-Journal, The Hammond Times, The Daily Herald, Bucks County Courier and Bucks County Times, The Cedar Rapids Gazette, www.Ancestry.com
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