Betty Field

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Betty Field (February 8, 1913 – September 13, 1973) was an American film and stage actress. Through her father, she was a direct descendant of the Pilgrims John Alden and Priscilla Mullins. Born in Boston, Massachusetts to George Field and Katharine Lynch, Field began her acting career on the London stage in Howard Lindsay's farce, She Loves Me Not. Following its run she returned to the United States and appeared in several stage successes, before making her film debut in 1939. Her role as Mae, the sole female character, in Of Mice and Men (1939) established her as a dramatic actress. She starred opposite John Wayne in the 1941 film The Shepherd of the Hills. Field played supporting roles in films such as Kings Row (1942), in which she played a victim of incest, although that fact was not readily apparent due to the heavy censorship of the time. Field preferred performing on Broadway and appeared in Elmer Rice's Dream Girl and Jean Anouilh's The Waltz of the Toreadors, but returned to Hollywood regularly, appearing in Flesh and Fantasy (1943), The Southerner (1945), The Great Gatsby (1949), Picnic (1955), Bus Stop (1956), Peyton Place (1957), BUtterfield 8 (1960) and Birdman of Alcatraz (1962). Her final film role was in Coogan's Bluff in 1968. She also appeared on television. Description above from the Wikipedia article Betty Field, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Acting

Born: Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 1913-02-08

Died: 1973-09-13

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1939	What a Life	Barbara Pearson	0
2	1939	Of Mice and Men	Mae	73
3	1940	Seventeen	Lola Pratt	0
4	1940	Victory	Alma	0
5	1941	The Shepherd of the Hills	Sammy Lane	66
6	1941	Blues in the Night	Kay Grant	63
7	1942	Kings Row	Cassandra Tower	72
8	1942	Are Husbands Necessary?	Mary Elizabeth Cugat	0
9	1943	Flesh and Fantasy	Henrietta (segment 1)	68
10	1944	The Great Moment	Elizabeth Morton	58
11	1944	Tomorrow, the World!	Leona Richards	79
12	1945	The Southerner	Nona Tucker	65
13	1949	The Great Gatsby	Daisy Buchanan	55
14	1952	Actors and Sin	Betty Field (Woman of Sin sequence) (archive footage)	52
15	1955	Picnic	Flo Owens	63
16	1956	Bus Stop	Grace	61
17	1957	Peyton Place	Nellie Cross	67
18	1959	Hound-Dog Man	Cora McKinney	44
19	1960	BUtterfield 8	Mrs. Fanny Thurber	63
20	1962	Birdman of Alcatraz	Stella Johnson	75
21	1963	Marilyn	Self ("Bus Stop") (archive footage) (uncredited)	60
22	1965	7 Women	Mrs. Florrie Pether	65
23	1968	How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life	Thelma	58
24	1968	Coogan's Bluff	Ellen Ringerman	64

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	The Philco Television Playhouse	Rose	63
2	1948	The Philco Television Playhouse		63
3	1950	Robert Montgomery Presents	Mrs. Howard	56
4	1950	Lux Video Theatre	Carol	63
5	1950	Lux Video Theatre	Martha Shanks / Madeline	63
6	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Lily Miller	86
7	1953	General Electric Theater	Emily Marsden	63
8	1953	Letter to Loretta	Frances Palmer	65
9	1954	Climax!	Callie Bellason	33
10	1955	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Helen	77
11	1958	Naked City	Mrs. Brent	55
12	1958	Naked City	Pauline Kater	55
13	1960	Route 66		63
14	1961	Dr. Kildare	Mrs. Harper	55
15	1961	Ben Casey		56
16	1962	Sam Benedict		60
17	1962	The Alfred Hitchcock Hour	Jenny Davies	78
18	1962	Going My Way		57
19	1968	The Outsider		52

No.

Year

Title

Role

Vote Average

1948