Betty Garrett was a singer, dancer, and comic actress. She is best known as Edna Babish on ABC's Laverne & Shirley and Irene Lorenzo on CBS' All in the Family.

Film credits include Carol Channing: Larger Than Life, Troupers and On the Town.

Broadway credits include her debut in Of V We Sing (Concert Theatre); Hattie Walker in Follies (Belasco Theatre); Katie in Meet Me in St. Louis (Gershwin Theatre); Mae in The Supporting Cast (Biltmore Theatre); Penny Moore in A Girl Could Get Lucky (Cort Theatre); Reader in Spoon River Anthology (Booth/Belasco Theatres); Clara in Beg, Borrow or Steal (Martin Beck Theatre); Ella Peterson in Bells are Ringing (Shubert/Alvin Theatres); Mrs. Josephine Wilson/Grandmother/Mrs. Winthrop/Others in Call Me Mister (National/Majestic/Plymouth Theatres); Laffing Room Only (Winter Garden Theatre); Sergeant Maguire in Jackpot and Mary-Frances/Blossom Hart in Something for the Boys (Alvin Theatre); and Let Freedom Sing (Longacre Theatre).