(Dec. 18, 1916 - July 02, 1973) Betty Grable was an American actress, singer, dancer, and pin-up girl, whose sensational bathing-suit photo became the number-one pinup of the World War II era. Grable was best-known for her shapely legs, which were showcased in all of her Technicolor musicals and were famously insured by her studio, 20th Century Fox, for $1,000,000 per leg.