How tall was Betsy Blair?

Betsy Blair was born as a child model in Cliffside, New Jersey, before starting employment as a chorus dancer at the early age of 15. She got her first mini-break on Broadway in 1940 in "Panama Hattie" delivering a single line, but by the next year she had copped the ingénue lead in "The Lovely Ones" by William Saroyan. She met extraordinaire dancer Gene Kelly at around the same time and married him in 1940. Betsy was clearly not in the same class as a Vera-Ellen, Cyd Charisse, or Ann Miller, with her experience in music, and she was never given the chance to float with Gene in film. In fact, she has never even acted in a musical video.

5 feet 6 inches

1 m 68 cm