Celebrity Biographies
Betsy palmer
“Who was the killer on Friday the 13th?” asked the Scream psychopath. Be careful not to give him the correct answer, as anyone who has seen the film knows that it was not Jason Voorhees, but his mother. The actress who gave life to him, Betsy Palmer, passed away another disastrous Friday, May 29, 2015, at the age of 88, in a hospital care center near her residence in Danbury, Connecticut.
Born in East Chicago, Indiana, on November 1, 1926, Pamela Betsy Hrunek was the daughter of a Czech-born industrial chemist and a housewife. At the age of 25, she moved to New York in search of work. A week after her arrival, she went to see a football game with an actor friend, television showman Vince Carter, who had also invited a producer. As soon as he saw her, one of them offered her a role in the television series Miss Susan .
After some other work for the small screen, she shot by the hand of the teacher John Ford Cradle of Heroes , where she played a friend of Tyrone Power ‘s character , a military man. The filmmaker recruited her again to continue in the military at Escala in Hawaii , where she played an Army lieutenant alongside Henry Fonda and James Cagney .
Although both titles heralded an interesting film career, Palmer preferred to return to television. As the host of the game show I’ve Got a Secret , which she stayed on for seven years, she became so popular that in the sitcom Wild One and the Millionaire she played herself, in a brief appearance, alongside Jack Lemmon and Doris Day . . She also appeared in various series.
Betsy Palmer married Vincent J. Merendino, a physician, on May 8, 1954. They had a daughter, Missy, in 1962, but divorced in 1971.
When she was offered a role on Friday the 13th , a horror spinoff, she immediately said no. But later his car broke down, so he thought if he took the job he would have money to buy a new one. She finally played Mrs. Voorhees, a mother who had lost her son, neglected by camp monitors, despite the fact that she “thought no one would go to see that garbage”, according to her own statements. The film had two Razzie Award nominations, for Worst Picture and Worst Supporting Actress, Palmer herself. Although she did not like the terrifying tape at all, she agreed to play the character again, in Friday the 13th, part two .
Over time, he grew fond of Ms. Voorhess, following the 2006 documentary Betsy Palmer: A Scream Queen Legend , and numerous invitations to horror film conventions and festivals. She was offered to reprise Freddy vs. Jason , but she turned down the job because she was paid too little money. She said goodbye to the cinema in 2007, when she starred in another by-product of the same genre, Bell Witch: The Movie , where she played a witch.