A 12-year-old Grable and her mother traveled to Hollywood in 1929, shortly after the stock market crash, hoping to achieve stardom. In Hollywood, Betty Grable studied at the Hollywood Professional High School and the Ernest Blecher Academy of Dance. To get her daughter jobs, Lillian Grable lied about her daughter's age, claiming she was 15 to movie producers and casting agents. The same year, she made her uncredited film debut as a chorus girl in the Fox Studios all-star revue "Happy Days" (1929). This eventually led to her having chorus girl jobs in "Let's Go Places" (1930) and "New Movietone Follies of 1930" (1930).