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Known For
Acting
Birthday
August 31, 1893
Died
April 7, 1972
Place of Birth
Los Angeles, California, USA
Also Known As
- Elizabeth Blythe Slaughter
Betty Blythe
0.4 Popularity
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.
Known For
7.5
Lady at Ball (uncredited)
My Fair Lady
1964
3.3
Party Guest (uncredited)
Runaway Daughters
1956
6.6
Herself
Hollywood Story
1951
5.2
Miss Fenmoor (uncredited)
Luxury Liner
1948
4.8
Mrs. Peet (Uncredited)
Shed No Tears
1948
7.8
Frau Kohner (uncredited)
Letter from an Unknown Woman
1948
6.0
Mrs. Brown
Madonna of the Desert
1948
0.0
Mrs. Vacuum
Jiggs and Maggie in Society
1947
6.8
Floor Manager (uncredited)
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
1947
6.3
Society Matron (uncredited)
Something in the Wind
1947
Credits
My Fair Lady
as Lady at Ball (uncredited)
1964
7.5
Runaway Daughters
as Party Guest (uncredited)
1956
3.3
Hollywood Story
as Herself
1951
6.6
Luxury Liner
as Miss Fenmoor (uncredited)
1948
5.2
Shed No Tears
as Mrs. Peet (Uncredited)
1948
4.8
Letter from an Unknown Woman
as Frau Kohner (uncredited)
1948
7.8
Madonna of the Desert
as Mrs. Brown
1948
6.0
Jiggs and Maggie in Society
as Mrs. Vacuum
1947
0.0
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
as Floor Manager (uncredited)
1947
6.8
Something in the Wind
as Society Matron (uncredited)
1947
6.3
Undercurrent
as Saleslady (uncredited)
1946
5.9
Joe Palooka, Champ
as Mrs. Stafford
1946
0.0
The Postman Always Rings Twice
as Customer (uncredited)
1946
7.0
The Undercover Woman
as Cissy Van Horn
1946
1.7
Adventure
as Mrs. Buckley (uncredited)
1945
6.2
They Were Expendable
as Officer's Wife (uncredited)
1945
6.5
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
as Mrs. Murdock (uncredited)
1945
5.6
Docks of New York
as Mrs. Darcy
1945
6.0
A Fig Leaf for Eve
as Lavinia Sardham
1944
4.6
Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat
as Mrs. Manning
1944
6.4
Mr. Muggs Steps Out
1943
0.0
Bar 20
as Mrs. Stevens
1943
3.9
Spotlight Scandals
as Mrs. Baker
1943
3.0
Crime Doctor
as Mrs. Harrington
1943
6.2
Sarong Girl
as Miss Ellsworth
1943
0.0
Girls in Chains
as Mrs. Grey
1943
4.7
Presenting Lily Mars
as Dowager
1943
6.3
Dawn on the Great Divide
as Mrs. Elmira Corkle
1942
4.8
Piano Mooner
as Society Woman
1942
0.0
House of Errors
as Mrs. Martha Randall
1942
0.0
Freckles Comes Home
as Minerva Potter
1942
5.0
Inflation
as Next Door Neighbor Who Begins Hoarding (uncredited)
1942
5.0
Tuxedo Junction
as Miss Hornblower
1941
0.0
The Miracle Kid
as Madame Gloria
1941
5.0
Top Sergeant Mulligan
as Mrs. Lewis
1941
5.0
Honky Tonk
as Mrs. Wilson
1941
6.4
Our Wife
as Minor Role (uncredited)
1941
5.7
Puddin' Head
as Mrs. Bowser
1941
5.0
Sis Hopkins
as Mrs. Farnsworth
1941
6.0
Federal Fugitives
as Marcia
1941
5.4
Misbehaving Husbands
as Effie Butler
1940
4.8
Earl of Puddlestone
as Millicent Potter-Potter
1940
0.0
The Women
as Mrs. South (uncredited)
1939
7.1
Gangster's Boy
as Mrs. Davis
1938
0.0
Delinquent Parents
as Mrs. Wharton
1938
8.0
Romance of the Limberlost
as Mrs. Parker
1938
6.0
Hold That Kiss
as Wedding Guest at Piermont's
1938
6.5
Life in Sometown, U.S.A.
as Mrs. Himber (uncredited)
1938
7.0
What Do You Think? (Number Two)
1937
0.0
Topper
as Mrs. Goodrich (uncredited)
1937
6.7
Espionage
as Train Passenger
1937
6.8
Rainbow on the River
as Flower Buyer (uncredited)
1936
9.0
The Gorgeous Hussy
as Mrs. Wainwright
1936
5.3
Yours for the Asking
as May (uncredited)
1936
3.5
Murder at Glen Athol
as Ann Randel
1936
6.5
Western Courage
as Mrs. Hanley
1935
6.0
The Spanish Cape Mystery
as Mrs. Godfrey
1935
5.4
Cheers of the Crowd
as Lil Langdon Walton
1935
5.5
The Perfect Clue
as Ursula Chesebrough
1935
5.5
I've Been Around
1935
2.7
Night Alarm
as Mrs. Elizabeth Van Dusen
1934
3.7
A Girl of the Limberlost
as Mrs. Parker
1934
1.0
Two Heads on a Pillow
as Mrs. Agnes Walker
1934
0.0
The Scarlet Letter
as Innkeeper
1934
4.6
Money Means Nothing
as Mrs. Ferris
1934
4.0
Badge of Honor
as Mrs. Claire van Alstyne
1934
4.4
Ever Since Eve
as Mrs. Vandergrift
1934
0.0
Before Midnight
as Mavis Fry
1933
4.2
Only Yesterday
as Mrs. Vincent (Uncredited)
1933
6.8
Pilgrimage
as Janet Prescot
1933
6.9
Back Street
as Gossip (uncredited)
1932
6.2
Tom Brown of Culver
as Dolores Delight
1932
5.2
Lena Rivers
as Mathilda Nichols
1932
5.5
Stars of Yesterday
as Self
1931
0.0
Stolen Love
as Modiste
1928
0.0
🎬
Sisters of Eve
as Mrs. Wenham Gardner
1928
0.0
🎬
Into No Man's Land
as The Countess
1928
0.0
Glorious Betsy
as Princess Fredericka
1928
5.8
Domestic Troubles
as Carrie
1928
0.0
The Girl from Gay Paree
as Mademoiselle Fanchon
1927
0.0
A Million Bid
as Mrs. Gordon
1927
0.0
Snowbound
as Julia Barry
1927
0.0
She
as Ayesha
1925
5.7
Percy
as Lolita
1925
0.0
Folly of Vanity
as Mrs. Ridgeway (modern sequence)
1924
0.0
In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter
as Rita Sismondi
1924
0.0
The Breath of Scandal
as Sybil Russell
1924
0.0
Chu-Chin-Chow
as Zahrat
1924
0.0
The Spitfire
as Jean Bronson
1924
0.0
🎬
Southern Love
1924
0.0
🎬
The Truth About Wives
as Helen Frazer
1923
0.0
How Women Love
as Rosa Roma
1922
0.0
Fair Lady
as Countess Margherita
1922
0.0
Disraeli
1921
0.0
Charge It
as Mille Garreth
1921
0.0
The Queen of Sheba
as Queen of Sheba
1921
0.0
Nomads of the North
as Nanette
1920
5.5
Occasionally Yours
as Bunny Winston
1920
0.0
The Silver Horde
as Mildred Wayland
1920
0.0
Burnt Wings
as Helen
1920
0.0
The Undercurrent
as Mariska
1919
0.0
Beating the Odds
as Hebe Norse
1919
0.0
Over the Top
as Madame Arnot
1918
0.0
Slander
1916
2.3