Betty McDowall fimls acting a tough job as she collects a smack from Coral Fairweather in the Minerva play ''the Gioconda Smile.'' Richard Parry looks on. Australia actress Betty McDowall, 25, has been chosen to play Z character role of an American girl in a new American television film being made in England according to an AAP message. Betty McDowall above character study) at first could not convince the producers that she could Play the part of an American. They admitted their 2 mistake after seeing Betty as an American in an English TV play. March 9, 1949.