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Betty Luster as Mr B. Natural

Betty Luster (19222011) was a prominent American television actress, singer and dancer in the 1940s and 50s.

Born in 1922, Betty Luster grew up in New Jersey. After winning a beauty contest in 1937, she traveled to London where she spent several years as a showgirl with the Dorchester Hale dance troupe, later appearing as a dancer on British TV. She returned to the United States in 1940 in an Irving Berlin production on Broadway and later became a showgirl in Miami Beach in the 1940s, also appearing in an opera.

Luster was also a co-hostess in an early version of Name That Tune called Sing It Again. She also had a short-lived variety show Seven at Eleven and eventually returned to Broadway.

In 1957, she appeared in her final and most famous role, that of Mr. B Natural, the mysterious pixie for a promotional film sponsored by the musical instrument manufacturer C. G. Conn. The short became one the most famous shorts on MST3K due to Mr. B's mysterious nature, confusing gender-identity, and endless exuberance (among other things).

Betty Luster retired after she married Edmund “Ned” Prentis III. The two were fond of big game hunting, fishing and “world class croquet” according to one report. Prentis passed away in 1997.

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