Name
Betty Blythe
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1893-08-31
Deathday
1972-04-07 (79 years old)
Place of Birth
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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- 1941 Tuxedo Junction as Miss Hornblower
- 1939 The Women as Mrs. South (uncredited)
- 1940 Earl of Puddlestone as Millicent Potter-Potter
- 1935 I've Been Around as Betty
- 1946 The Postman Always Rings Twice as Customer (uncredited)
- 1916 Slander
- 1947 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty as Floor Manager (uncredited)
- 1934 The Scarlet Letter as Innkeeper
- 1947 Something in the Wind as Society Matron (uncredited)
- 1944 Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat as Mrs. Manning
- 1938 Gangster's Boy as Mrs. Davis
- 1951 Hollywood Story as Herself
- 1925 Percy as Lolita
- 1935 The Spanish Cape Mystery as Mrs. Godfrey
- 1931 Stars of Yesterday as Self
- 1943 Crime Doctor as Mrs. Harrington
- 1924 Southern Love as Dolores
- 1943 Girls in Chains as Mrs. Grey
- 1936 The Gorgeous Hussy as Mrs. Wainwright
- 1932 Lena Rivers as Mathilda Nichols
- 1925 She as Ayesha
- 1935 The Perfect Clue as Ursula Chesebrough
- 1936 Murder at Glen Athol as Ann Randel
- 1933 Before Midnight as Mavis Fry
- 1942 Freckles Comes Home as Minerva Potter
- 1923 The Truth About Wives as Helen Frazer
- 1944 A Fig Leaf for Eve as Lavinia Sardham
- 1934 A Girl of the Limberlost as Mrs. Parker
- 1924 Chu-Chin-Chow as Zahrat
- 1918 Over the Top as Madame Arnot
- 1941 Federal Fugitives as Marcia
- 1945 Adventure as Mrs. Buckley (uncredited)
- 1943 Sarong Girl as Miss Ellsworth
- 1938 Romance of the Limberlost as Mrs. Parker
- 1938 Delinquent Parents as Mrs. Wharton
- 1940 Misbehaving Husbands as Effie Butler
- 1935 Western Courage as Mrs. Hanley
- 1943 Mr. Muggs Steps Out
- 1919 The Undercurrent as Mariska
- 1921 The Queen of Sheba as Queen of Sheba
- 1924 In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter as Rita Sismondi
- 1948 Letter from an Unknown Woman as Frau Kohner (uncredited)
- 1934 Two Heads on a Pillow as Mrs. Agnes Walker
- 1948 Shed No Tears as Mrs. Peet (Uncredited)
- 1934 Money Means Nothing as Mrs. Ferris
- 1928 Domestic Troubles as Carrie
- 1934 Night Alarm as Mrs. Elizabeth Van Dusen
- 1938 Life in Sometown, U.S.A. as Mrs. Himber (uncredited)
- 1938 Hold That Kiss as Wedding Guest at Piermont's
- 1932 Back Street as Gossip (uncredited)
- 1945 Docks of New York as Mrs. Darcy
- 1935 Cheers of the Crowd as Lil Langdon Walton
- 1934 Ever Since Eve as Mrs. Vandergrift
- 1956 Runaway Daughters as Party Guest (uncredited)
- 1928 Stolen Love as Modiste
- 1941 Puddin' Head as Mrs. Bowser
- 1941 Sis Hopkins as Mrs. Farnsworth
- 1937 Espionage as Train Passenger
- 1936 Rainbow on the River as Flower Buyer (uncredited)
- 1928 Glorious Betsy as Princess Fredericka
- 1936 Yours for the Asking as May (uncredited)
- 1943 Spotlight Scandals as Mrs. Baker
- 1948 Madonna of the Desert as Mrs. Brown
- 1941 The Miracle Kid as Madame Gloria
- 1941 Top Sergeant Mulligan as Mrs. Lewis
- 1942 House of Errors as Mrs. Martha Randall
- 1932 Tom Brown of Culver as Dolores Delight
- 1942 Piano Mooner as Society Woman
- 1927 A Million Bid as Mrs. Gordon
- 1937 Topper as Mrs. Goodrich (uncredited)
- 1941 Our Wife as Minor Role (uncredited)
- 1927 The Girl from Gay Paree as Mademoiselle Fanchon
- 1942 Dawn on the Great Divide as Mrs. Elmira Corkle
- 1946 The Undercover Woman as Cissy Van Horn
- 1943 Bar 20 as Mrs. Stevens
- 1941 Honky Tonk as Mrs. Wilson
- 1948 Luxury Liner as Miss Fenmoor (uncredited)
- 1921 Disraeli
- 1921 Charge It as Mille Garreth
- 1964 My Fair Lady as Lady at Ball (uncredited)
- 1920 Nomads of the North as Nanette
- 1937 What Do You Think? (Number Two)
- 1927 Snowbound as Julia Barry
- 1946 Undercurrent as Saleslady (uncredited)
- 1943 Presenting Lily Mars as Dowager
- 1946 Joe Palooka, Champ as Mrs. Stafford
- 1919 Beating the Odds as Hebe Norse
- 1947 Jiggs and Maggie in Society as Mrs. Vacuum
- 1942 Inflation as Next Door Neighbor Who Begins Hoarding (uncredited)
- 1933 Only Yesterday as Mrs. Vincent (Uncredited)
- 1934 Badge of Honor as Mrs. Claire van Alstyne
- 1928 Sisters of Eve as Mrs. Wenham Gardner
- 1945 Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood as Mrs. Murdock (uncredited)
- 1920 The Silver Horde as Mildred Wayland
- 1922 How Women Love as Rosa Roma
- 1924 Folly of Vanity as Mrs. Ridgeway (modern sequence)
- 1922 Fair Lady as Countess Margherita
- 1945 They Were Expendable as Officer's Wife (uncredited)
- 1920 Burnt Wings as Helen
- 1933 Pilgrimage as Janet Prescot
- 1928 Into No Man's Land as The Countess
- 1920 Occasionally Yours as Bunny Winston
- 1924 The Spitfire as Jean Bronson
- 1924 The Breath of Scandal as Sybil Russell
- 1918 Miss Ambition as Edith Webster
- 1922 His Wife's Husband as Olympia Brewster
- 1918 The Business of Life as Elena Clydesdale
- 1920 The Third Generation as Helen Van Dusen
- 1918 The Green God as Muriel Temple
- 1918 A Game with Fate as Elaine Huntington
- 1918 The King of Diamonds as Lucille Bennett
- 1921 Mother o' Mine as Fan Baxter
- 1950 Rebecca as Mrs. Danvers
