Betty Blythe

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1893-08-31 (79 years old)

Deathday

1972-04-07

Place of Birth

Los Angeles, California, USA

Betty Blythe

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 theatric...

Acting

1941

Tuxedo Junction

as Miss Hornblower

1939

The Women

as Mrs. South (uncredited)

1940

Earl of Puddlestone

as Millicent Potter-Potter

1946

The Postman Always Rings Twice

as Customer (uncredited)

1947

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

as Floor Manager (uncredited)

1934

The Scarlet Letter

as Innkeeper

1947

Something in the Wind

as Society Matron (uncredited)

1938

Gangster's Boy

as Mrs. Davis

1951

Hollywood Story

as Herself

1925

Percy

as Lolita

1935

1943

Crime Doctor

as Mrs. Harrington

1943

Girls in Chains

as Mrs. Grey

1936

The Gorgeous Hussy

as Mrs. Wainwright

1932

Lena Rivers

as Mathilda Nichols

1925

She

as Ayesha

1936

1935

The Perfect Clue

as Ursula Chesebrough

1933

Before Midnight

as Mavis Fry

1942

Freckles Comes Home

as Minerva Potter

1923

The Truth About Wives

as Helen Frazer

1944

A Fig Leaf for Eve

as Lavinia Sardham

1934

1924

Chu-Chin-Chow

as Zahrat

1918

Over the Top

as Madame Arnot

1941

1945

Adventure

as Mrs. Buckley (uncredited)

1943

Sarong Girl

as Miss Ellsworth

1938

1938

Delinquent Parents

as Mrs. Wharton

1940

Misbehaving Husbands

as Effie Butler

1935

Western Courage

as Mrs. Hanley

1919

1921

The Queen of Sheba

as Queen of Sheba

1948

Letter from an Unknown Woman

as Frau Kohner (uncredited)

1934

Two Heads on a Pillow

as Mrs. Agnes Walker

1948

Shed No Tears

as Mrs. Peet (Uncredited)

1934

Money Means Nothing

as Mrs. Ferris

1928

1934

Night Alarm

as Mrs. Elizabeth Van Dusen

1938

Life in Sometown, U.S.A.

as Mrs. Himber (uncredited)

1938

Hold That Kiss

as Wedding Guest at Piermont's

1932

Back Street

as Gossip (uncredited)

1945

Docks of New York

as Mrs. Darcy

1935

Cheers of the Crowd

as Lil Langdon Walton

1934

Ever Since Eve

as Mrs. Vandergrift

1956

Runaway Daughters

as Party Guest (uncredited)

1928

Stolen Love

as Modiste

1941

Sis Hopkins

as Mrs. Farnsworth

1941

Puddin' Head

as Mrs. Bowser

1936

Rainbow on the River

as Flower Buyer (uncredited)

1937

Espionage

as Train Passenger

1928

Glorious Betsy

as Princess Fredericka

1936

Yours for the Asking

as May (uncredited)

1943

Spotlight Scandals

as Mrs. Baker

1948

1941

The Miracle Kid

as Madame Gloria

1941

1942

House of Errors

as Mrs. Martha Randall

1932

Tom Brown of Culver

as Dolores Delight

1942

Piano Mooner

as Society Woman

1927

A Million Bid

as Mrs. Gordon

1937

Topper

as Mrs. Goodrich (uncredited)

1941

Our Wife

as Minor Role (uncredited)

1927

The Girl from Gay Paree

as Mademoiselle Fanchon

1942

Dawn on the Great Divide

as Mrs. Elmira Corkle

1946

The Undercover Woman

as Cissy Van Horn

1943

Bar 20

as Mrs. Stevens

1941

Honky Tonk

as Mrs. Wilson

1948

Luxury Liner

as Miss Fenmoor (uncredited)

1921

Charge It

as Mille Garreth

1964

My Fair Lady

as Lady at Ball (uncredited)

1920

1927

Snowbound

as Julia Barry

1946

Undercurrent

as Saleslady (uncredited)

1943

1946

Joe Palooka, Champ

as Mrs. Stafford

1919

Beating the Odds

as Hebe Norse

1947

1942

Inflation

as Next Door Neighbor Who Begins Hoarding (uncredited)

1933

Only Yesterday

as Mrs. Vincent (Uncredited)

1934

Badge of Honor

as Mrs. Claire van Alstyne

1928

Sisters of Eve

as Mrs. Wenham Gardner

1945

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood

as Mrs. Murdock (uncredited)

1920

The Silver Horde

as Mildred Wayland

1922

How Women Love

as Rosa Roma

1925

Folly of Vanity

as Mrs. Ridgeway (modern sequence)

1922

Fair Lady

as Countess Margherita

1945

They Were Expendable

as Officer's Wife (uncredited)

1920

Burnt Wings

as Helen

1933

Pilgrimage

as Janet Prescot

1928

Into No Man's Land

as The Countess

1920

Occasionally Yours

as Bunny Winston

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