MUMBAI: Betty Garrett , better known for his films like All In The Family and On The Town died last Saturday. She was 91. Garrett‘s career formed acting on stage, screen and television.

Garrett performed on Broadway in the 1930s. In the ‘40s, she starred in sparkly MGM musicals before her career was tarnished by the Red Scare of the ‘50s.

In the musical On the Town, Garrett played a spunky New York City cab driver. She flirted with a sailor on leave, played by Frank Sinatra.

Garrett stopped getting work soon after her husband, Larry Parks was accused of being a communist and blacklisted. In an interview in 1998, Garett had said in an interview that "it was a dark and foolish period."

By the ‘70s, Garrett was a regular on popular TV sitcoms, playing a neighbor in All in the Family and a landlady in Laverne and Shirley.

She also founded a non-profit theatre company called Theater West in North Hollywood.