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