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Betsy Palmer (November 1, 1926 – May 29, 2015) was an American actress, known as a regular panelist on the game show ''I've Got a Secret'', and later for playing Pamela Voorhees in the slasher film ''Friday the 13th.'' ==Life and career== Palmer was born Patricia Betsy Hrunek in East Chicago, Indiana, the daughter of Marie (née Love), who launched the Chicago Business College, and Rudolph Vincent Hrunek,〔()〕 an industrial chemist who was an immigrant from Czechoslovakia.〔(Betsy Palmer Biography )〕〔http://www.nwitimes.com/entertainment/arts-and-theatre/theatre/wall-to-wall-smile-actress-betsy-palmer-inducted-this-week/article_c96ea8eb-34bb-5a80-aac1-ce655fd7cd45.html〕 She graduated from DePaul University, where she studied theater.〔''Friday the 13th'' Reunion Panel, from the ''Friday the 13th'' Deluxe Edition DVD (Paramount Home Video)〕 Palmer got her first acting job in 1951 when she joined the cast of the 15-minute weekday television soap opera ''Miss Susan'', which was produced in Philadelphia. She was "discovered" for this role while attending a party in the apartment of actor Frank Sutton (Gunnery Sergeant Vince Carter of ''Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.''). She had been in Manhattan less than one week. A life member of The Actors Studio, Palmer's stage work included a tour of ''South Pacific'' (as Nellie Forbush) and the title role in ''Maggie'', a 1953 musicalization of ''What Every Woman Knows''. In 1953, she created the role of Virginia in the original teleplay version of Paddy Chayefsky's ''Marty''. She would later become a familiar face on television as a long-running regular panelist on the quiz show ''I've Got a Secret''. She joined the show's original run, replacing Faye Emerson in 1958 and remaining until the show's finale in 1967. She did not reprise her role in any of the various revivals of the show. Palmer was the last surviving member of the ''I've Got a Secret'' first version's cast. Palmer appeared as Kitty Carter in ''The Long Gray Line'' (1955), starring Tyrone Power and Maureen O'Hara. She also played nurse Lt. Ann Girard (the main female character) in the all-star cast of the classic film ''Mister Roberts'' (1955), starring Henry Fonda, Jack Lemmon, James Cagney and William Powell. In the same year she also played Carol Lee Phillips in the film ''Queen Bee'', which starred Joan Crawford. Palmer starred alongside Fonda again as well as Anthony Perkins in the Paramount production of ''The Tin Star'' (1957). In 1958, she played undercover agent Phyllis Carter/Lynn Stuart in the film ''The True Story of Lynn Stuart'', co-starring Jack Lord and featuring Kim Spalding as her husband, Ralph Carter. Palmer's need to purchase a new car was her reason for taking her most famous role in ''Friday the 13th''. She recounted, in an interview, that her initial reaction to the experience was: "What a piece of shit! Nobody is ever going to see this thing." Despite her distaste for the film, she reluctantly consented to a cameo appearance in ''Friday the 13th Part 2''. She ultimately came to embrace her participation in the films since it made her more famous rather than infamous, appearing in the 2006 documentary ''Betsy Palmer: A Scream Queen Legend''. Palmer was asked to reprise her role as Mrs. Voorhees in ''Freddy vs. Jason'' in 2003 but turned it down, reportedly due to the low remuneration she was offered. In 1982 Palmer created the role of "Suzanne Becker" on the CBS daytime soap opera ''As the World Turns.'' From 1989 to 1990, the actress appeared on ''Knots Landing'' as Virginia "Ginny" Bullock, the aunt of Valene Ewing (played by series star Joan Van Ark). Palmer acted in a Mayfield Dinner Theatre production of ''On Golden Pond'' in Edmonton, Alberta in 1997. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Betsy Palmer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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