Betty Blythe
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- August 31, 1893
- Died
- April 7, 1972 (aged 78)
- Birthplace
- Los Angeles, California, USA
Biography
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.
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Filmography
My Fair Lady
Movie · as Lady at Ball (uncredited)
Runaway Daughters
Movie · as Party Guest (uncredited)
Hollywood Story
Movie · as Herself
Rebecca
Movie · as Mrs. Danvers
Letter from an Unknown Woman
Movie · as Frau Kohner (uncredited)
Shed No Tears
Movie · as Mrs. Peet (Uncredited)
Madonna of the Desert
Movie · as Mrs. Brown
Luxury Liner
Movie · as Miss Fenmoor (uncredited)
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Movie · as Floor Manager (uncredited)
Something in the Wind
Movie · as Society Matron (uncredited)
Jiggs and Maggie in Society
Movie · as Mrs. Vacuum
The Postman Always Rings Twice
Movie · as Customer (uncredited)
The Undercover Woman
Movie · as Cissy Van Horn
Undercurrent
Movie · as Saleslady (uncredited)
Joe Palooka, Champ
Movie · as Mrs. Stafford
Adventure
Movie · as Mrs. Buckley (uncredited)
Docks of New York
Movie · as Mrs. Darcy
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
Movie · as Mrs. Murdock (uncredited)
They Were Expendable
Movie · as Officer's Wife (uncredited)
Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat
Movie · as Mrs. Manning
A Fig Leaf for Eve
Movie · as Lavinia Sardham
Crime Doctor
Movie · as Mrs. Harrington
Girls in Chains
Movie · as Mrs. Grey
Sarong Girl
Movie · as Miss Ellsworth
Mr. Muggs Steps Out
Movie
Spotlight Scandals
Movie · as Mrs. Baker
Bar 20
Movie · as Mrs. Stevens
Presenting Lily Mars
Movie · as Dowager
Freckles Comes Home
Movie · as Minerva Potter
House of Errors
Movie · as Mrs. Martha Randall
Piano Mooner
Movie · as Society Woman
Dawn on the Great Divide
Movie · as Mrs. Elmira Corkle
Inflation
Movie · as Next Door Neighbor Who Begins Hoarding (uncredited)
Tuxedo Junction
Movie · as Miss Hornblower
Federal Fugitives
Movie · as Marcia
Puddin' Head
Movie · as Mrs. Bowser
Sis Hopkins
Movie · as Mrs. Farnsworth
The Miracle Kid
Movie · as Madame Gloria
Top Sergeant Mulligan
Movie · as Mrs. Lewis
Our Wife
Movie · as Minor Role (uncredited)
Honky Tonk
Movie · as Mrs. Wilson
Earl of Puddlestone
Movie · as Millicent Potter-Potter
Misbehaving Husbands
Movie · as Effie Butler
The Women
Movie · as Mrs. South (uncredited)
Gangster's Boy
Movie · as Mrs. Davis
Romance of the Limberlost
Movie · as Mrs. Parker
Delinquent Parents
Movie · as Mrs. Wharton
Life in Sometown, U.S.A.
Movie · as Mrs. Himber (uncredited)
Hold That Kiss
Movie · as Wedding Guest at Piermont's
Espionage
Movie · as Train Passenger
Topper
Movie · as Mrs. Goodrich (uncredited)
What Do You Think? (Number Two)
Movie
The Gorgeous Hussy
Movie · as Mrs. Wainwright
Murder at Glen Athol
Movie · as Ann Randel
Rainbow on the River
Movie · as Flower Buyer (uncredited)
Yours for the Asking
Movie · as May (uncredited)
I've Been Around
Movie · as Betty
The Spanish Cape Mystery
Movie · as Mrs. Godfrey
The Perfect Clue
Movie · as Ursula Chesebrough
Western Courage
Movie · as Mrs. Hanley
Cheers of the Crowd
Movie · as Lil Langdon Walton
The Scarlet Letter
Movie · as Innkeeper
A Girl of the Limberlost
Movie · as Mrs. Parker
Two Heads on a Pillow
Movie · as Mrs. Agnes Walker
Money Means Nothing
Movie · as Mrs. Ferris
Night Alarm
Movie · as Mrs. Elizabeth Van Dusen
Ever Since Eve
Movie · as Mrs. Vandergrift
Badge of Honor
Movie · as Mrs. Claire van Alstyne
Before Midnight
Movie · as Mavis Fry
Only Yesterday
Movie · as Mrs. Vincent (Uncredited)
Pilgrimage
Movie · as Janet Prescot
Lena Rivers
Movie · as Mathilda Nichols
Back Street
Movie · as Gossip (uncredited)
Tom Brown of Culver
Movie · as Dolores Delight
Stars of Yesterday
Movie · as Self
Domestic Troubles
Movie · as Carrie
Stolen Love
Movie · as Modiste
Glorious Betsy
Movie · as Princess Fredericka
Sisters of Eve
Movie · as Mrs. Wenham Gardner
Into No Man's Land
Movie · as The Countess
A Million Bid
Movie · as Mrs. Gordon
The Girl from Gay Paree
Movie · as Mademoiselle Fanchon
Snowbound
Movie · as Julia Barry
Percy
Movie · as Lolita
She
Movie · as Ayesha
Southern Love
Movie · as Dolores
Chu-Chin-Chow
Movie · as Zahrat
In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter
Movie · as Rita Sismondi
Folly of Vanity
Movie · as Mrs. Ridgeway (modern sequence)
The Spitfire
Movie · as Jean Bronson
The Breath of Scandal
Movie · as Sybil Russell
The Truth About Wives
Movie · as Helen Frazer
How Women Love
Movie · as Rosa Roma
Fair Lady
Movie · as Countess Margherita
His Wife's Husband
Movie · as Olympia Brewster
The Queen of Sheba
Movie · as Queen of Sheba
Disraeli
Movie
Charge It
Movie · as Mille Garreth
Mother o' Mine
Movie · as Fan Baxter
Nomads of the North
Movie · as Nanette
The Silver Horde
Movie · as Mildred Wayland
Burnt Wings
Movie · as Helen
Occasionally Yours
Movie · as Bunny Winston
The Third Generation
Movie · as Helen Van Dusen
The Undercurrent
Movie · as Mariska
Beating the Odds
Movie · as Hebe Norse
Over the Top
Movie · as Madame Arnot
Miss Ambition
Movie · as Edith Webster
The Business of Life
Movie · as Elena Clydesdale
The Green God
Movie · as Muriel Temple
A Game with Fate
Movie · as Elaine Huntington
The King of Diamonds
Movie · as Lucille Bennett
Slander
Movie