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Betty Blythe
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…
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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.
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1964
My Fair Lady
Movie Lady at Ball (uncredited)
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1956
Runaway Daughters
Movie Party Guest (uncredited)
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1951
Hollywood Story
Movie Herself
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1950
Rebecca
Movie Mrs. Danvers
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1948
Luxury Liner
Movie Miss Fenmoor (uncredited)
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1948
Shed No Tears
Movie Mrs. Peet (Uncredited)
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1948
Letter from an Unknown Woman
Movie Frau Kohner (uncredited)
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1948
Madonna of the Desert
Movie Mrs. Brown
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1947
Jiggs and Maggie in Society
Movie Mrs. Vacuum
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1947
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Movie Floor Manager (uncredited)
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1947
Something in the Wind
Movie Society Matron (uncredited)
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1946
Undercurrent
Movie Saleslady (uncredited)
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1946
Joe Palooka, Champ
Movie Mrs. Stafford
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1946
The Postman Always Rings Twice
Movie Customer (uncredited)
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1946
The Undercover Woman
Movie Cissy Van Horn
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1945
Adventure
Movie Mrs. Buckley (uncredited)
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1945
They Were Expendable
Movie Officer's Wife (uncredited)
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1945
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
Movie Mrs. Murdock (uncredited)
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1945
Docks of New York
Movie Mrs. Darcy
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1944
A Fig Leaf for Eve
Movie Lavinia Sardham
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1944
Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat
Movie Mrs. Manning
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1943
Mr. Muggs Steps Out
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1943
Bar 20
Movie Mrs. Stevens
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1943
Spotlight Scandals
Movie Mrs. Baker
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1943
Crime Doctor
Movie Mrs. Harrington
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1943
Sarong Girl
Movie Miss Ellsworth
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1943
Girls in Chains
Movie Mrs. Grey
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1943
Presenting Lily Mars
Movie Dowager
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1942
Dawn on the Great Divide
Movie Mrs. Elmira Corkle
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1942
Piano Mooner
Movie Society Woman
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1942
House of Errors
Movie Mrs. Martha Randall
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1942
Freckles Comes Home
Movie Minerva Potter
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1942
Inflation
Movie Next Door Neighbor Who Begins Hoarding (uncredited)
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1941
Tuxedo Junction
Movie Miss Hornblower
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1941
The Miracle Kid
Movie Madame Gloria
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1941
Top Sergeant Mulligan
Movie Mrs. Lewis
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1941
Honky Tonk
Movie Mrs. Wilson
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1941
Our Wife
Movie Minor Role (uncredited)
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1941
Puddin' Head
Movie Mrs. Bowser
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1941
Sis Hopkins
Movie Mrs. Farnsworth
