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name: "Betty Lou Keim"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/betty-lou-keim"
fi1m_id: "betty-lou-keim"
imdb_id: "nm0445100"
tmdb_id: 178789
wikidata_id: "Q4898901"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "27 September 1938"
died: "27 January 2010"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T08:36:53.606302+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Betty Lou Keim

## Identity

Betty Lou Keim

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/betty-lou-keim
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** betty-lou-keim
- **IMDb ID:** nm0445100
- **TMDB ID:** 178789
- **Wikidata ID:** Q4898901
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Lou_Keim, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4898901, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0445100/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/178789

Actor. Born 27 September 1938 in Malden, Massachusetts, USA. Died 27 January 2010.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 27 September 1938, Malden, Massachusetts, USA
- **Died:** 27 January 2010
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Lou_Keim, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4898901, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0445100/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/178789

## Biography

Betty Lou Keim (27 September 1938 – 27 January 2010) was an American stage, film and television actress. Born in Malden, Massachusetts, she began performing on stage as a child and appeared in several Broadway productions, including *Crime and Punishment* (1947), *Texas, Li'l Darlin'* (1949) and *A Roomful of Roses* (1955).

She made her film debut in *These Wilder Years* (1956) and repeated her stage role as Ginger Rogers' daughter in the film adaptation *Teenage Rebel* (1956). Other screen credits include *The Wayward Bus* (1957) and a supporting part as Dawn Hirsh in *Some Came Running* (1958). On television she appeared in series such as *My Son Jeep* and starred as Fran McCord in *The Deputy* (1959–1960).

Keim married actor Warren Berlinger in 1960 and retired from acting shortly afterwards.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, hollywoodreporter.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Some Came Running* (1958), Fi1m 76, as Dawn Hirsh — [page](https://film.one/film/some-came-running.md)

## Complete filmography (14)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Riverboat* (1959), series, as Holly Andrews
- *The Deputy* (1959), series, as Fran McCord
- *Some Came Running* (1958), as Dawn Hirsh — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/some-came-running.md)
- *Yancy Derringer* (1958), series, as Julie Randall
- *The Wayward Bus* (1957), as Norma
- *Teenage Rebel* (1956), as Dodie McGowan
- *These Wilder Years* (1956), as Suzie
- *Tragedy in a Temporary Town* (1956), as Dotty Fisher
- *Matinee Theater* (1955), series, Actor
- *Middle of the Night* (1954), as Phyllis
- *General Electric Theater* (1953), series, as Judy Matthews, Prospective Bride
- *Hallmark Hall of Fame* (1951), series, as Neferet, The London Girl
- *Robert Montgomery Presents* (1950), series, Actor
- *The Philco Television Playhouse* (1948), series, as Phyllis

## Gallery

- ![American actress Betty Lou Keim - publicity still (1956)](https://film.one/media/person/3876283/gallery-685c4af33aaf.jpg) American actress Betty Lou Keim - publicity still (1956) — unknown (MGM), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2c/Betty_Lou_Keim_%281956_still%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Betty Lou Keim](https://film.one/media/person/3876283/gallery-535e0a59daa9.jpg) Betty Lou Keim — Bureau of Industrial Service.  This was a division of ad agency Young & Rubicam which was widely used by those in the television industry to distribute publicity material., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/16/Betty_Lou_Keim_The_Deputy_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Betty Lou Keim](https://film.one/media/person/3876283/gallery-220a467c5523.jpg) Betty Lou Keim — Image via TMDB

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