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