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Better Watch Out

Better Watch Out (2016), formerly Safe Neighborhood, is an Australian Christmas horror-comedy directed by Chris Peckover, in which a staged home invasion by 12-year-old Luke (Levi Miller) traps babysitter Ashley (Olivia DeJonge); 89% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Better When I'm Dancin'

Better When I'm Dancin' (Meghan Trainor, 2015): dance-pop theme song for The Peanuts Movie, written with Thaddeus Dixon, Epic Records, soca-influenced, Radio Disney Music Award winner.

Betti Alver

Betti Alver, born Elisabet Alver (1906–1989), was an Estonian poet and translator of the Arbujad circle who returned to poetry in 1966 after two decades of Soviet-era silence.

Bettie Page

Bettie Mae Page (1923–2008), American pin-up model known as the Queen of Pinups, active 1950–1957; Playboy January 1955 centerfold, Irving Klaw bondage films, Kefauver hearings, 1980s revival.

Bettina Rheims

Bettina Rheims is a French photographer, born in 1952, known for staged portraits of femininity and gender identity and for fashion work for Chanel and magazines like Elle.

Bettina von Arnim

Bettina von Arnim, née Brentano (1785–1859), German Romantic writer of Frankfurt and Berlin; wife of Achim von Arnim, sister of Clemens Brentano; author of Goethes Briefwechsel mit einem Kinde (1835) and Die Günderode (1840).

Betty (Taylor Swift song)

"Betty" is a song by Taylor Swift from her 2020 album Folklore, sung by 17-year-old James as he tries to win back Betty after cheating.

Betty Aberlin

Betty Aberlin (born 1942, born Betty Kay Ageloff) is the American actress who played Lady Aberlin on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, and also Betty of Betty's Little Theater; she appeared on Broadway in Sandhog and Stop the World and in Kevin Smith films.

Betty Blue

Betty Blue (37°2 le matin) is Jean-Jacques Beineix's 1986 French drama adapted from Philippe Djian's novel, starring Béatrice Dalle and Jean-Hugues Anglade; an Oscar-nominated cinéma du look landmark released 9 April 1986.

Betty Boo

Betty Boo, also known as Alison Moira Clarkson, is a British pop-rapper whose 1990 platinum debut Boomania produced "Doin' the Do" and "Where Are You Baby?"; she later wrote "Pure and Simple" and returned with Boomerang (2022).

Betty Boop

Betty Boop, created by Max and Dave Fleischer in 1930 (debuting in Dizzy Dishes), is a Jazz Age flapper cartoon character, the first fully human female animated star, shaped by the Helen Kane lawsuit and Hays Code censorship, and public domain in her 1930 form since 2026.

Betty Botter

Betty Botter is a classic English tongue twister written by Carolyn Wells, first published 1899 in The Jingle Book as "The Butter Betty Bought"; it trains the vowels in butter, bitter, batter, and better.

Betty Brant

Betty Brant (Elizabeth Brant-Leeds), Stan Lee and Steve Ditko's Daily Bugle secretary from Amazing Spider-Man #4 (September 1963); Peter Parker's first serious girlfriend, later Ned Leeds's widow and an investigative reporter, portrayed by Elizabeth Banks (Raimi films) and Angourie Rice (MCU), absent from Spider-Man: Brand New Day.

Betty Brosmer

Betty Brosmer (Betty Weider, born Betty Chloe Brosemer) was the highest-paid American pin-up model of the 1950s, famed for her 'impossible waist' (39-19-36), 200+ magazine covers, and later career as a Weider fitness author and icon after marrying Joe Weider in 1961.

Betty Buckley

Betty Buckley (born 1947, Big Spring, Texas) is a Tony Award-winning American actress and singer, the original Broadway Grizabella in Cats singing Memory, also known for Eight Is Enough, Carrie, Sunset Boulevard, and 20 albums including Enough.

Betty Clooney

Betty Clooney (1931–1976), American singer and TV performer, younger sister and duo partner of Rosemary Clooney; member of the Clooney Sisters with Tony Pastor's band, later solo radio/TV and singles work; died of a brain aneurysm in 1976.

Betty Cooper

Betty Cooper (Elizabeth "Betty" Cooper), Archie Comics' blonde girl-next-door, debuted in Pep Comics #22 (December 1941), vies with Veronica Lodge for Archie Andrews, fronts the Betty (1992-2012) series and the Superteen alter ego, and is played by Lili Reinhart in Riverdale.

Betty Crocker

Betty Crocker is a fictional brand persona and baking brand of General Mills, created in 1921 by Washburn Crosby to answer consumer baking letters; known for cake mixes, the 1950 Picture Cook Book, radio and TV personas, and BettyCrocker.com.

Betty Davis

Betty Davis, born Betty Mabry, was an American funk singer, songwriter, and producer whose openly sexual 1970s albums made her a cult figure, later rediscovered after their 2007 reissue.

Betty Draper

Betty Draper (Betty Francis, née Elizabeth Hofstadt) is January Jones's fictional housewife character in AMC's Mad Men (2007–2015), Don Draper's wife, later Henry Francis's, embodying Friedan's Feminine Mystique and dying of cancer in the final season.

Betty Driver

Betty Driver (Elizabeth Mary Driver, 1920–2011), English singer and comic actor, was Betty Turpin/Williams, the hotpot-serving barmaid of Coronation Street's Rovers Return from 1969, after a variety career with Henry Hall and ENSA.

Betty en NY

Betty en NY (Betty in New York) is Telemundo's 2019 Spanish-language telenovela adaptation of Yo soy Betty, la fea, set in New York, starring Elyfer Torres and Erick Elías, 123 episodes, aired February to August 2019.

Betty Field

Betty Field was an American film and stage actress active from the late 1930s to 1971, starring on Broadway in Dream Girl and appearing in Picnic and Bus Stop.

Betty Gabriel

Betty Gabriel (born 1981, Washington, D.C.) is an American actress and Juilliard graduate known as Georgina in Get Out, a Blumhouse scream queen, and as Elizabeth Wright in Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan.

Betty Garrett

Betty Garrett (1919-2011), American actress, singer, and dancer; MGM musical star opposite Frank Sinatra in On the Town; wife of blacklisted actor Larry Parks; later Irene Lorenzo on All in the Family and Edna Babish on Laverne & Shirley.

Betty Gilpin

Betty Gilpin (Elizabeth Folan Gilpin) is an American actress and writer born 1986 in New York, known for Debbie Eagan in GLOW, Mrs. Davis, The Hunt, and her 2026 Emmy-winning Widow's Bay guest role.

Betty Grable

Betty Grable (Ruth Elizabeth Grable, 1916-1973), American actress, dancer, and singer, Twentieth Century-Fox's leading 1940s Technicolor musical star and WWII's most popular pin-up, famous for her million-dollar insured legs and the 1943 Frank Powolny bathing-suit photo.

Betty Grable filmography

Betty Grable filmography: screen record of the American star (1916–1973), AFI-listed 79 titles, 1930–1955. Key films: Down Argentine Way, Mother Wore Tights, Pin Up Girl, The Dolly Sisters, How to Marry a Millionaire, last film How to Be Very, Very Popular (1955).

Betty Hutton

Betty Hutton, born Elizabeth June Thornburg (1921–2007), American actress, singer, and dancer nicknamed the Blonde Bombshell; Paramount musical star of Annie Get Your Gun and The Greatest Show on Earth.

Betty Lou Gerson

Betty Lou Gerson (1914-1999), American radio, film, and voice actress, original voice of Cruella De Vil in One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961), narrator of Cinderella, Disney Legend 1996.