Betty Field
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- February 8, 1913
- Died
- September 13, 1973 (aged 60)
- Birthplace
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Biography
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.
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Filmography
Coogan's Bluff
Movie · as Ellen Ringerman
How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life
Movie · as Thelma
The Outsider
TV · 1 ep
7 Women
Movie · as Mrs. Florrie Pether
Birdman of Alcatraz
Movie · as Stella Johnson
Sam Benedict
TV · 1 ep
Going My Way
TV · 1 ep
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
TV · as Jenny Davies · 1 ep
Ben Casey
TV · 1 ep
Dr. Kildare
TV · as Mrs. Harper · 1 ep
BUtterfield 8
Movie · as Mrs. Fanny Thurber
Route 66
TV · 3 eps
Hound-Dog Man
Movie · as Cora McKinney
Naked City
TV · as Mrs. Brent, Pauline Kater · 1 ep
Peyton Place
Movie · as Nellie Cross
Bus Stop
Movie · as Grace
Picnic
Movie · as Flo Owens
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV · as Helen · 1 ep
Climax!
TV · as Callie Bellason · 1 ep
General Electric Theater
TV · as Emily Marsden · 1 ep
Letter to Loretta
TV · as Frances Palmer · 1 ep
Actors and Sin
Movie · as Betty Field (Woman of Sin sequence) (archive footage)
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV · as Lily Miller · 1 ep
Lux Video Theatre
TV · as Carol, Martha Shanks / Madeline · 1 ep
Robert Montgomery Presents
TV · as Mrs. Howard · 1 ep
The Great Gatsby
Movie · as Daisy Buchanan
The Philco Television Playhouse
TV · as Rose · 1 ep
The Southerner
Movie · as Nona Tucker
The Great Moment
Movie · as Elizabeth Morton
Tomorrow, the World!
Movie · as Leona Richards
Flesh and Fantasy
Movie · as Henrietta (segment 1)
Kings Row
Movie · as Cassandra Tower
Are Husbands Necessary?
Movie · as Mary Elizabeth Cugat
Blues in the Night
Movie · as Kay Grant
The Shepherd of the Hills
Movie · as Sammy Lane
Seventeen
Movie · as Lola Pratt
Victory
Movie · as Alma
Of Mice and Men
Movie · as Mae
What a Life
Movie · as Barbara Pearson