 Born Elizabeth Ada Bronson (November
17, 1906 Trenton, New Jersey - October 19, 1971 Pasadena,
California).
Bronson's film career began at age of sixteen with a bit part in the
film Anna Ascends. At seventeen, author J. M. Barrie personally
chose her to play the lead in a film of his work Peter Pan which
would be released in 1924. This film role had been sought by both
Gloria Swanson and Mary Pickford.
Betty Bronson became an instant success in the year following the
release of Peter Pan. She had moderate success for the rest of her
career. Bronson's first sound film was in The Singing Fool with Al
Jolson.
She continued film roles until 1933 when she married Ludwig
Lauerhass. Bronson did not appear in films again until 1937 in
Jungle Menace. She resumed acting in the 1960s and her last film
role was uncredited in the 1971 film biography Evel Knievel. She did
some television appearing in Dr. Kildare and her last television
appearance was in Marcus Welby, M.D. in 1971. |
