Betty Blythe
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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
Credits
My Fair Lady (1964)
as Lady at Ball (uncredited)
The Women (1939)
as Mrs. South (uncredited)
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
as Frau Kohner (uncredited)
They Were Expendable (1945)
as Officer's Wife (uncredited)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
as Customer (uncredited)
Topper (1937)
as Mrs. Goodrich (uncredited)
Undercurrent (1946)
as Saleslady (uncredited)
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)
as Floor Manager (uncredited)
Miss Ambition (1918)
as Edith Webster
Our Wife (1941)
as Minor Role (uncredited)
Honky Tonk (1941)
as Mrs. Wilson
The Gorgeous Hussy (1936)
as Mrs. Wainwright
Presenting Lily Mars (1943)
as Dowager
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood (1945)
as Mrs. Murdock (uncredited)
Shed No Tears (1948)
as Mrs. Peet (Uncredited)
Sis Hopkins (1941)
as Mrs. Farnsworth
Only Yesterday (1933)
as Mrs. Vincent (Uncredited)
Snowbound (1927)
as Julia Barry
Fair Lady (1922)
as Countess Margherita
Crime Doctor (1943)
as Mrs. Harrington
Slander (1916)
Actor
Before Midnight (1933)
as Mavis Fry
Sarong Girl (1943)
as Miss Ellsworth
Back Street (1932)
as Gossip (uncredited)
Girls in Chains (1943)
as Mrs. Grey
The Third Generation (1920)
as Helen Van Dusen
Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat (1944)
as Mrs. Manning
Adventure (1945)
as Mrs. Buckley (uncredited)
Mother o' Mine (1921)
as Fan Baxter
Hollywood Story (1951)
as Herself
Luxury Liner (1948)
as Miss Fenmoor (uncredited)
The Breath of Scandal (1924)
as Sybil Russell
Something in the Wind (1947)
as Society Matron (uncredited)
Runaway Daughters (1956)
as Party Guest (uncredited)
His Wife's Husband (1922)
as Olympia Brewster
Pilgrimage (1933)
as Janet Prescot
Joe Palooka, Champ (1946)
as Mrs. Stafford
A Game with Fate (1918)
as Elaine Huntington
Rebecca (1950)
as Mrs. Danvers
Murder at Glen Athol (1936)
as Ann Randel
Puddin' Head (1941)
as Mrs. Bowser
Inflation (1942)
as Next Door Neighbor Who Begins Hoarding (uncredited)
Yours for the Asking (1936)
as May (uncredited)
Docks of New York (1945)
as Mrs. Darcy
In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter (1924)
as Rita Sismondi
Stars of Yesterday (1931)
as Self
Tom Brown of Culver (1932)
as Dolores Delight
Hold That Kiss (1938)
as Wedding Guest at Piermont's
The Scarlet Letter (1934)
as Innkeeper
Earl of Puddlestone (1940)
as Millicent Potter-Potter
Dawn on the Great Divide (1942)
as Mrs. Elmira Corkle
The King of Diamonds (1918)
as Lucille Bennett
Gangster's Boy (1938)
as Mrs. Davis
The Green God (1918)
as Muriel Temple
Lena Rivers (1932)
as Mathilda Nichols
The Spanish Cape Mystery (1935)
as Mrs. Godfrey
The Business of Life (1918)
as Elena Clydesdale
Espionage (1937)
as Train Passenger
Madonna of the Desert (1948)
as Mrs. Brown
Jiggs and Maggie in Society (1947)
as Mrs. Vacuum
Mr. Muggs Steps Out (1943)
Actor
The Silver Horde (1920)
as Mildred Wayland
Misbehaving Husbands (1940)
as Effie Butler
Glorious Betsy (1928)
as Princess Fredericka
Night Alarm (1934)
as Mrs. Elizabeth Van Dusen
Cheers of the Crowd (1935)
as Lil Langdon Walton
Domestic Troubles (1928)
as Carrie
Top Sergeant Mulligan (1941)
as Mrs. Lewis
I've Been Around (1935)
as Betty
The Miracle Kid (1941)
as Madame Gloria
Nomads of the North (1920)
as Nanette
Western Courage (1935)
as Mrs. Hanley
The Spitfire (1924)
as Jean Bronson
Rainbow on the River (1936)
as Flower Buyer (uncredited)
Piano Mooner (1942)
as Society Woman
Burnt Wings (1920)
as Helen
Two Heads on a Pillow (1934)
as Mrs. Agnes Walker
Spotlight Scandals (1943)
as Mrs. Baker
Tuxedo Junction (1941)
as Miss Hornblower
Delinquent Parents (1938)
as Mrs. Wharton
Romance of the Limberlost (1938)
as Mrs. Parker
Ever Since Eve (1934)
as Mrs. Vandergrift
Stolen Love (1928)
as Modiste
Bar 20 (1943)
as Mrs. Stevens
Folly of Vanity (1924)
as Mrs. Ridgeway (modern sequence)
Badge of Honor (1934)
as Mrs. Claire van Alstyne
A Million Bid (1927)
as Mrs. Gordon
The Girl from Gay Paree (1927)
as Mademoiselle Fanchon
Percy (1925)
as Lolita
Disraeli (1921)
Actor
How Women Love (1922)
as Rosa Roma
The Undercover Woman (1946)
as Cissy Van Horn
Federal Fugitives (1941)
as Marcia
The Perfect Clue (1935)
as Ursula Chesebrough
Life in Sometown, U.S.A. (1938)
as Mrs. Himber (uncredited)
House of Errors (1942)
as Mrs. Martha Randall
The Truth About Wives (1923)
as Helen Frazer
Charge It (1921)
as Mille Garreth
Sisters of Eve (1928)
as Mrs. Wenham Gardner
Freckles Comes Home (1942)
as Minerva Potter
A Girl of the Limberlost (1934)
as Mrs. Parker
The Queen of Sheba (1921)
as Queen of Sheba
Chu-Chin-Chow (1924)
as Zahrat
Into No Man's Land (1928)
as The Countess
What Do You Think? (Number Two) (1937)
Actor
Beating the Odds (1919)
as Hebe Norse
Southern Love (1924)
as Dolores
Money Means Nothing (1934)
as Mrs. Ferris
A Fig Leaf for Eve (1944)
as Lavinia Sardham
She (1925)
as Ayesha
Occasionally Yours (1920)
as Bunny Winston
The Undercurrent (1919)
as Mariska
Over the Top (1918)
as Madame Arnot