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