Betty Blythe

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Betty Blythe (born Elizabeth Blythe Slaughter, September 1, 1893 – April 7, 1972) was an American actress best known for her dramatic roles in exotic silent films such as The Queen of Sheba (1921). She appeared in 63 silent films and 56 talking pictures (known as talkies) over the course of her career. She is famous for being one of the first actresses to appear on film in the nude, or nearly so, during the Roaring Twenties. She is reported to have said, "A director is the only man besides your husband who can tell you how much of your clothes to take off." Blythe began her stage work in such theatrical pieces as So Long Letty and The Peacock Princess. She worked in vaudeville as the "California Nightingale" singing songs such as "Love Tales from Hoffman". After touring Europe and the States, she entered films in 1918 at the Vitagraph Studios in Brooklyn, then she was brought to Hollywood's Fox studio as a replacement for actress Theda Bara. As famous for her revealing costumes as for her dramatic skills, she became a star in such exotic films as The Queen of Sheba (1921) (in which she wore nothing above the waist except a string of beads), Chu-Chin-Chow (made in 1923; released by MGM in the US 1925) and She (1925). She was also seen to good advantage in less revealing films like Nomads of the North (1920) with Lon Chaney and In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter (1924), produced by Samuel Goldwyn. Other roles were as an opera star, unbilled in Garbo's The Mysterious Lady. She continued to work as a character actress. One of her last roles was a small uncredited role in a crowd scene in 1964's My Fair Lady. Betty Blythe's name lives on through the Betty Blythe Vintage TeaRoom in West Kensington.

Known For: Acting

Born: Los Angeles, California, USA, 1893-08-31

Died: 1972-04-07

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1916	Slander		30
2	1918	Over the Top	Madame Arnot	0
3	1919	Beating the Odds	Hebe Norse	0
4	1919	The Undercurrent	Mariska	0
5	1920	Burnt Wings	Helen	0
6	1920	The Silver Horde	Mildred Wayland	0
7	1920	Occasionally Yours	Bunny Winston	0
8	1920	Nomads of the North	Nanette	55
9	1921	The Queen of Sheba	Queen of Sheba	0
10	1921	Charge It	Mille Garreth	0
11	1921	Disraeli		0
12	1922	Fair Lady	Countess Margherita	0
13	1922	How Women Love	Rosa Roma	0
14	1923	The Truth About Wives	Helen Frazer	0
15	1924	Southern Love		0
16	1924	Chu-Chin-Chow	Zahrat	0
17	1924	In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter	Rita Sismondi	0
18	1925	Folly of Vanity	Mrs. Ridgeway (modern sequence)	0
19	1925	Percy	Lolita	0
20	1925	She	Ayesha	57
21	1927	Snowbound	Julia Barry	0
22	1927	A Million Bid	Mrs. Gordon	0
23	1927	The Girl from Gay Paree	Mademoiselle Fanchon	0
24	1928	Domestic Troubles	Carrie	0
25	1928	Glorious Betsy	Princess Fredericka	64
26	1928	Into No Man's Land	The Countess	0
27	1928	Sisters of Eve	Mrs. Wenham Gardner	0
28	1928	Stolen Love	Modiste	0
29	1931	Stars of Yesterday	Self	0
30	1932	Lena Rivers	Mathilda Nichols	55
31	1932	Tom Brown of Culver	Dolores Delight	52
32	1932	Back Street	Gossip (uncredited)	61
33	1933	Pilgrimage	Janet Prescot	69
34	1933	Only Yesterday	Mrs. Vincent (Uncredited)	68
35	1933	Before Midnight	Mavis Fry	46
36	1934	Ever Since Eve	Mrs. Vandergrift	0
37	1934	Badge of Honor	Mrs. Claire van Alstyne	44
38	1934	Money Means Nothing	Mrs. Ferris	40
39	1934	The Scarlet Letter	Innkeeper	49
40	1934	Two Heads on a Pillow	Mrs. Agnes Walker	0
41	1934	A Girl of the Limberlost	Mrs. Parker	10
42	1934	Night Alarm	Mrs. Elizabeth Van Dusen	37
43	1935	I've Been Around		25
44	1935	The Perfect Clue	Ursula Chesebrough	55
45	1935	Cheers of the Crowd	Lil Langdon Walton	55
46	1935	The Spanish Cape Mystery	Mrs. Godfrey	54
47	1935	Western Courage	Mrs. Hanley	60
48	1936	Murder at Glen Athol	Ann Randel	65
49	1936	Yours for the Asking	May (uncredited)	10
50	1936	The Gorgeous Hussy	Mrs. Wainwright	53
51	1936	Rainbow on the River	Flower Buyer (uncredited)	90
52	1937	Espionage	Train Passenger	65
53	1937	Topper	Mrs. Goodrich (uncredited)	67
54	1937	What Do You Think? (Number Two)		0
55	1938	Life in Sometown, U.S.A.	Mrs. Himber (uncredited)	70
56	1938	Hold That Kiss	Wedding Guest at Piermont's	65
57	1938	Romance of the Limberlost	Mrs. Parker	0
58	1938	Delinquent Parents	Mrs. Wharton	80
59	1938	Gangster's Boy	Mrs. Davis	0
60	1939	The Women	Mrs. South (uncredited)	71
61	1940	Earl of Puddlestone	Millicent Potter-Potter	0
62	1940	Misbehaving Husbands	Effie Butler	50
63	1941	Federal Fugitives	Marcia	54
64	1941	Sis Hopkins	Mrs. Farnsworth	60
65	1941	Puddin' Head	Mrs. Bowser	50
66	1941	Our Wife	Minor Role (uncredited)	57
67	1941	Honky Tonk	Mrs. Wilson	64
68	1941	Top Sergeant Mulligan	Mrs. Lewis	50
69	1941	The Miracle Kid	Madame Gloria	50
70	1941	Tuxedo Junction	Miss Hornblower	0
71	1942	Inflation	Next Door Neighbor Who Begins Hoarding (uncredited)	50
72	1942	Freckles Comes Home	Minerva Potter	50
73	1942	House of Errors	Mrs. Martha Randall	0
74	1942	Piano Mooner	Society Woman	0
75	1942	Dawn on the Great Divide	Mrs. Elmira Corkle	44
76	1943	Presenting Lily Mars	Dowager	63
77	1943	Girls in Chains	Mrs. Grey	47
78	1943	Sarong Girl	Miss Ellsworth	0
79	1943	Crime Doctor	Mrs. Harrington	62
80	1943	Spotlight Scandals	Mrs. Baker	30
81	1943	Bar 20	Mrs. Stevens	38
82	1943	Mr. Muggs Steps Out		0
83	1944	Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat	Mrs. Manning	64
84	1944	A Fig Leaf for Eve	Lavinia Sardham	45
85	1945	Docks of New York	Mrs. Darcy	60
86	1945	Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood	Mrs. Murdock (uncredited)	57
87	1945	They Were Expendable	Officer's Wife (uncredited)	66
88	1945	Adventure	Mrs. Buckley (uncredited)	62
89	1946	The Undercover Woman	Cissy Van Horn	20
90	1946	The Postman Always Rings Twice	Customer (uncredited)	70
91	1946	Joe Palooka, Champ	Mrs. Stafford	0
92	1946	Undercurrent	Saleslady (uncredited)	58
93	1947	Something in the Wind	Society Matron (uncredited)	63
94	1947	The Secret Life of Walter Mitty	Floor Manager (uncredited)	67
95	1947	Jiggs and Maggie in Society	Mrs. Vacuum	0
96	1948	Madonna of the Desert	Mrs. Brown	60
97	1948	Letter from an Unknown Woman	Frau Kohner (uncredited)	78
98	1948	Shed No Tears	Mrs. Peet (Uncredited)	50
99	1948	Luxury Liner	Miss Fenmoor (uncredited)	52
100	1951	Hollywood Story	Herself	66
101	1956	Runaway Daughters	Party Guest (uncredited)	39
102	1964	My Fair Lady	Lady at Ball (uncredited)	75

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