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Known For
Acting
Birthday
February 8, 1913
Died
September 13, 1973
Place of Birth
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Betty Field
0.4 Popularity
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Betty Field (February 8, 1913 – September 13, 1973) was an American film and stage actress. Through her father, she was a direct descendant of the Pilgrims John Alden and Priscilla Mullins. Born in Boston, Massachusetts to George Field and Katharine Lynch, Field began her acting career on the London stage in Howard Lindsay's farce, She Loves Me Not. Following its run she returned to the United States and appeared in several stage successes, before making her film debut in 1939. Her role as Mae, the sole female character, in Of Mice and Men (1939) established her as a dramatic actress. She starred opposite John Wayne in the 1941 film The Shepherd of the Hills. Field played supporting roles in films such as Kings Row (1942), in which she played a victim of incest, although that fact was not readily apparent due to the heavy censorship of the time. Field preferred performing on Broadway and appeared in Elmer Rice's Dream Girl and Jean Anouilh's The Waltz of the Toreadors, but returned to Hollywood regularly, appearing in Flesh and Fantasy (1943), The Southerner (1945), The Great Gatsby (1949), Picnic (1955), Bus Stop (1956), Peyton Place (1957), BUtterfield 8 (1960) and Birdman of Alcatraz (1962). Her final film role was in Coogan's Bluff in 1968. She also appeared on television. Description above from the Wikipedia article Betty Field, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
6.3
Ellen Ringerman
Coogan's Bluff
1968
5.2
The Outsider
1968
5.4
Thelma
How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life
1968
6.5
Mrs. Florrie Pether
7 Women
1965
6.0
Self ("Bus Stop") (archive footage) (uncredited)
Marilyn
1963
5.7
Going My Way
1962
7.8
Jenny Davies
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962
6.0
Sam Benedict
1962
7.5
Stella Johnson
Birdman of Alcatraz
1962
5.6
Ben Casey
1961
Credits
Coogan's Bluff
as Ellen Ringerman
1968
6.3
The Outsider
1968
5.2
How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life
as Thelma
1968
5.4
7 Women
as Mrs. Florrie Pether
1965
6.5
Marilyn
as Self ("Bus Stop") (archive footage) (uncredited)
1963
6.0
Going My Way
1962
5.7
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Jenny Davies
1962
7.8
Sam Benedict
1962
6.0
Birdman of Alcatraz
as Stella Johnson
1962
7.5
Ben Casey
1961
5.6
Dr. Kildare
as Mrs. Harper
1961
5.5
BUtterfield 8
as Mrs. Fanny Thurber
1960
6.3
Route 66
1960
6.3
Hound-Dog Man
as Cora McKinney
1959
4.4
Naked City
as Mrs. Brent
1958
5.5
Naked City
as Pauline Kater
1958
5.5
Peyton Place
as Nellie Cross
1957
6.7
Bus Stop
as Grace
1956
6.1
Picnic
as Flo Owens
1955
6.3
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Helen
1955
7.8
Climax!
as Callie Bellason
1954
3.3
Letter to Loretta
as Frances Palmer
1953
6.5
General Electric Theater
as Emily Marsden
1953
6.4
Actors and Sin
as Betty Field (Woman of Sin sequence) (archive footage)
1952
5.2
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Lily Miller
1951
8.6
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Lux Video Theatre
as Carol
1950
6.3
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Lux Video Theatre
as Martha Shanks / Madeline
1950
6.3
Robert Montgomery Presents
as Mrs. Howard
1950
5.6
The Great Gatsby
as Daisy Buchanan
1949
5.4
The Philco Television Playhouse
as Rose
1948
6.3
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
6.3
The Southerner
as Nona Tucker
1945
6.5
Tomorrow, the World!
as Leona Richards
1944
7.9
The Great Moment
as Elizabeth Morton
1944
5.6
Flesh and Fantasy
as Henrietta (segment 1)
1943
6.8
Are Husbands Necessary?
as Mary Elizabeth Cugat
1942
0.0
Kings Row
as Cassandra Tower
1942
7.2
Blues in the Night
as Kay Grant
1941
6.2
The Shepherd of the Hills
as Sammy Lane
1941
6.5
Victory
as Alma
1940
0.0
Seventeen
as Lola Pratt
1940
0.0
Of Mice and Men
as Mae
1939
7.3
What a Life
as Barbara Pearson
1939
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