Education
She attended the University of Pennsylvania.
She attended the University of Pennsylvania.
Born in Philadelphia, Katherine Elizabeth Garde was starring in productions of South Philadelphia"s Broadway Players by age 15. On the stage since the early 1920s, Garde made her Broadway debut as Alma Borden in Easy Come, Easy Go (1925-1926) and played character roles in productions including The Social Register (1931-1932) and The Primrose Path (1939). Betty Garde created the role of Aunt Eller in the original Broadway production of Oklahoma!.
She also portrayed Mistress
Gordon in Agatha Sue, I Love You (1966). After joining Columbia Broadcasting System in 1933, Garde began to work extensively in radio, performing on some three dozen shows including Lorenzo Jones, Mistress
Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, The Big Story, The Eddie Cantor Show (on which she played "all the women roles"), Front Page Farrell, Maudie"s Diary, Perry Mason, Theatre Guild on the Air and The Fat Manitoba In 1934 Garde worked with Orson Welles on the Columbia Broadcasting System series The American School of the Air, and she later performed in Welles radio series including Les Misérables, The Mercury Theatre on the Air, The Campbell Playhouse and Ceiling Unlimited.
Garde died December 25, 1989, at the age of 84 in a hospital in Sherman Oaks, California.
Number cause was given and there were no immediate survivors.