Betty Blythe
Age: 78 | From: Los Angeles, California, USA
Person Details
Birthday: 1893-09-01 03:34:39
Death: 1972-04-07 03:34:39
Aliases: Elizabeth Blythe Slaughter
Gender: Female
Place of birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
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Movie Involvements: 58
TV Involvements: 0
Most Famous Work
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.
Most Famous Work
My Fair Lady
(1964) Lady at Ball (uncredited)
The Postman Always Rings Twice
(1946) Customer (uncredited)
Letter from an Unknown Woman
(1948) Frau Kohner (uncredited)
Undercurrent
(1946) Saleslady (uncredited)
Presenting Lily Mars
(1943) Dowager
Hollywood Story
(1951) Herself
The Scarlet Letter
(1934) Innkeeper
Shed No Tears
(1948) Mrs. Peet (Uncredited)Acting
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1964 | Lady at Ball (uncredited) | |
| 1956 | Party Guest (uncredited) | |
| 1951 | Herself | |
| 1948 | Miss Fenmoor (uncredited) | |
| Mrs. Peet (Uncredited) | ||
| Frau Kohner (uncredited) | ||
| Mrs. Brown | ||
| 1947 | Mrs. Vacuum | |
| Floor Manager (uncredited) | ||
| Society Matron (uncredited) | ||
| 1946 | Saleslady (uncredited) | |
| Mrs. Stafford | ||
| Customer (uncredited) | ||
| Cissy Van Horn | ||
| 1945 | Mrs. Buckley (uncredited) | |
| Officer's Wife (uncredited) | ||
| Mrs. Murdock (uncredited) | ||
| Mrs. Darcy | ||
| 1944 | Lavinia Sardham | |
| Mrs. Manning | ||
| 1943 | N/A | |
| Mrs. Stevens | ||
| Mrs. Baker | ||
| Mrs. Harrington | ||
| Miss Ellsworth | ||
| Mrs. Grey | ||
| Dowager | ||
| 1942 | Mrs. Elmira Corkle | |
| Society Woman | ||
| Mrs. Martha Randall | ||
| Minerva Potter | ||
| Next Door Neighbor Who Begins Hoarding (uncredited) | ||
| 1941 | Miss Hornblower | |
| Madame Gloria | ||
| Mrs. Lewis | ||
| Mrs. Wilson | ||
| Minor Role (uncredited) | ||
| Mrs. Bowser | ||
| Mrs. Farnsworth | ||
| Marcia | ||
| 1940 | Effie Butler | |
| Millicent Potter-Potter | ||
| 1939 | Mrs. South (uncredited) | |
| 1938 | Mrs. Davis | |
| Mrs. Wharton | ||
| Mrs. Parker | ||
| Wedding Guest at Piermont's | ||
| Mrs. Himber (uncredited) | ||
| 1937 | N/A | |
| Mrs. Goodrich (uncredited) | ||
| Train Passenger | ||
| 1936 | Flower Buyer (uncredited) | |
| Mrs. Wainwright | ||
| May | ||
| Ann Randel | ||
| 1935 | Mrs. Hanley | |
| Mrs. Godfrey | ||
| Lil Langdon Walton | ||
| Ursula Chesebrough | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1934 | Mrs. Elizabeth Van Dusen | |
| Mrs. Parker | ||
| Mrs. Agnes Walker | ||
| Innkeeper | ||
| Mrs. Ferris | ||
| Mrs. Claire van Alstyne | ||
| Mrs. Vandergrift | ||
| 1933 | Mavis Fry | |
| Mrs. Vincent (Uncredited) | ||
| Janet Prescot | ||
| 1932 | Dolores Delight | |
| Mathilda Nichols | ||
| 1931 | Self | |
| 1928 | Modiste | |
| N/A | ||
| Princess Fredericka | ||
| Carrie | ||
| 1927 | Mrs. Gordon | |
| Julia Barry | ||
| 1925 | Ayesha | |
| Lolita | ||
| 1924 | Mrs. Ridgeway (modern sequence) | |
| Rita Sismondi | ||
| Zahrat | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1923 | Helen Frazer | |
| 1922 | Rosa Roma | |
| Countess Margherita | ||
| 1921 | N/A | |
| Mille Garreth | ||
| Queen of Sheba | ||
| 1920 | Nanette | |
| Mildred Wayland | ||
| Helen | ||
| 1919 | Mariska | |
| Hebe Norse | ||
| 1918 | Madame Arnot | |
| 1916 | N/A | |
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
