Betty Blythe
Acting
Born August 31, 1893 · Los Angeles, California, USA
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.
Films (112)
My Fair Lady
1964
Runaway Daughters
1956
Hollywood Story
1951
Luxury Liner
1948
Shed No Tears
1948
Letter from an Unknown Woman
1948
Madonna of the Desert
1948
Jiggs and Maggie in Society
1947
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
1947
Something in the Wind
1947
Undercurrent
1946
Joe Palooka, Champ
1946
The Postman Always Rings Twice
1946
The Undercover Woman
1946
Adventure
1945
They Were Expendable
1945
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
1945
Docks of New York
1945
A Fig Leaf for Eve
1944
Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat
1944
Mr. Muggs Steps Out
1943
Bar 20
1943
Spotlight Scandals
1943
Crime Doctor
1943
Sarong Girl
1943
Girls in Chains
1943
Presenting Lily Mars
1943
Dawn on the Great Divide
1942
Piano Mooner
1942
House of Errors
1942
Freckles Comes Home
1942
Inflation
1942
Tuxedo Junction
1941
The Miracle Kid
1941
Top Sergeant Mulligan
1941
Honky Tonk
1941
Our Wife
1941
Puddin' Head
1941
Sis Hopkins
1941
Federal Fugitives
1941
Misbehaving Husbands
1940
Earl of Puddlestone
1940
The Women
1939
Gangster's Boy
1938
Delinquent Parents
1938
Romance of the Limberlost
1938
Hold That Kiss
1938
Life in Sometown, U.S.A.
1938
What Do You Think? (Number Two)
1937
Topper
1937
Espionage
1937
Rainbow on the River
1936
The Gorgeous Hussy
1936
Yours for the Asking
1936
Murder at Glen Athol
1936
Western Courage
1935
The Spanish Cape Mystery
1935
Cheers of the Crowd
1935
The Perfect Clue
1935
I've Been Around
1935
Night Alarm
1934
A Girl of the Limberlost
1934
Two Heads on a Pillow
1934
The Scarlet Letter
1934
Money Means Nothing
1934
Badge of Honor
1934
Ever Since Eve
1934
Before Midnight
1933
Only Yesterday
1933
Pilgrimage
1933
Back Street
1932
Tom Brown of Culver
1932
Lena Rivers
1932
Stars of Yesterday
1931
Stolen Love
1928
Sisters of Eve
1928
Into No Man's Land
1928
Glorious Betsy
1928
Domestic Troubles
1928
The Girl from Gay Paree
1927
A Million Bid
1927
Snowbound
1927
She
1925
Percy
1925
Folly of Vanity
1924
In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter
1924
The Breath of Scandal
1924
Chu-Chin-Chow
1924
The Spitfire
1924
Southern Love
1924
The Truth About Wives
1923
How Women Love
1922
His Wife's Husband
1922
Fair Lady
1922
Disraeli
1921
Charge It
1921
Mother o' Mine
1921
The Queen of Sheba
1921
Nomads of the North
1920
Occasionally Yours
1920
The Silver Horde
1920
Burnt Wings
1920
The Third Generation
1920
The Undercurrent
1919
Beating the Odds
1919
Miss Ambition
1918
The King of Diamonds
1918
The Green God
1918
A Game with Fate
1918
The Business of Life
1918
Over the Top
1918
Slander
1916