Betsy Palmer Autographs
Betsy Palmer (born Patricia Betsy Hrunek; November 1, 1926 – May 29, 2015) was an American actress known for her many film and Broadway roles, television guest-starring appearances, as a panelist on the game show I've Got a Secret, and later for playing the antagonist and mother of Jason Voorhees, Pamela Voorhees, in the first Friday the 13th film (1980).
Palmer was born Patricia Betsy Hrunek on November 1, 1926, in East Chicago, Indiana, the daughter of Marie (née Love), an adoptee, who launched the East Chicago Business College before she married, and Vincent Rudolph Hrunek (1894-1969), an industrial chemist who immigrated from Czechoslovakia, and became a stay-at-home father. She performed in school plays all through childhood, graduated from East Chicago's Roosevelt High School in 1944, then attended East Chicago Business College. After graduation, she worked as a stenographer and secretary for the car foreman on the RIP track of the B&O Railroad. She hated it, she said, because she was shut off from people. Some time after Palmer took an aptitude test at the Chicago YWCA, which indicated a flair for the arts, her father brought a coworker home for dinner, a former New York actor who recommended she study with David Itkin. Working days and commuting to night classes from East Chicago, she graduated from the Goodman School of Drama at the Art Institute of Chicago (now at DePaul University).
Palmer began working in summer stock in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, then in winter stock at the Woodstock Opera House in Woodstock, Illinois, with Paul Newman, and then summer stock in Chicago with Imogene Coca. Having saved $400, she told her parents she was changing her name to Betsy Palmer and moving to New York City with Sasha Igler, who had a job in advertising.
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Current items with a signature of Betsy Palmer
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Traded items with a signature of Betsy Palmer
The most expensive item with a signature of Betsy Palmer (Friday The 13th Autographed Prop Machete Betsy Palmer Hodder Dash Alice Cooper) was sold in May 2019 for $2,499.00 while the cheapest item (627291 Betsy Palmer Signed 8x10 Fan Mail Autographed AUTO Actress) found a new owner for $0.99 in January 2019. The month with the most items sold (7) was January 2019 with an average selling price of $5.50 for an autographed item of Betsy Palmer. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in May 2025 with $440.95 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $1.99 was May 2011. In average, an autographed item from Betsy Palmer is worth $24.99.
Most recently, these items with a signature of Betsy Palmer were sold on eBay - click here for more items.
| Picture | Item Title | Price | Store |
 | 1992 Press Photo Actress Betsy Palmer signs autograph for Kathy Franklin | $29.98 |  |
| 1992 Press Photo Actress Betsy Palmer signs autograph for Kathy Franklin | $29.98 | |
| BETSY PALMER - PROGRAM SIGNED | $145.99 | |
| BETSY PALMER - PROGRAM SIGNED | $145.99 | |
 | Betsy Palmer d2015 signed autograph 3x5 cut Actress I've Got a Secret C591 | $34.99 | |
| Betsy Palmer d2015 signed autograph 3x5 cut Actress I've Got a Secret C591 | $34.99 | |
 | Betsy Palmer Friday The 13th Authentic Signed 3x5 Index Card BAS Slabbed | $415.98 | |
| Betsy Palmer Friday The 13th Authentic Signed 3x5 Index Card BAS Slabbed | $415.98 | |
| Betsy Palmer signed 3x5 card Beckett Authenticated Friday the 13th | $60.00 | |
| Betsy Palmer signed 3x5 card Beckett Authenticated Friday the 13th | $60.00 | |
| Betsy Palmer signed 3x5 card Beckett Authenticated Friday the 13th | $164.45 | |
| Betsy Palmer signed 3x5 card Beckett Authenticated Friday the 13th | $164.45 | |
| Betsy Palmer signed autograph 1.5x3.5 Cut Actress: FRIDAY THE 13th BAS Slabbed | $255.00 | |
| Betsy Palmer signed autograph 1.5x3.5 Cut Actress: FRIDAY THE 13th BAS Slabbed | $255.00 | |
| RARE SIGNED Betsy Palmer Vintage Hollywood Photo RARE COLLECTIBLE | $74.68 | |
