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Betty Field
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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…
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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.
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Movies and shows, newest first
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1968
Coogan's Bluff
Movie Ellen Ringerman
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1968
The Outsider
TV show
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1968
How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life
Movie Thelma
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1965
7 Women
Movie Mrs. Florrie Pether
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1962
Going My Way
TV show
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1962
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
TV show Jenny Davies
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1962
Sam Benedict
TV show
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1962
Birdman of Alcatraz
Movie Stella Johnson
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1961
Ben Casey
TV show
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1961
Dr. Kildare
TV show Mrs. Harper
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1960
BUtterfield 8
Movie Mrs. Fanny Thurber
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1960
Route 66
TV show
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1959
Hound-Dog Man
Movie Cora McKinney
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1958
Naked City
TV show Mrs. Brent
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1957
Peyton Place
Movie Nellie Cross
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1956
Bus Stop
Movie Grace
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1955
Picnic
Movie Flo Owens
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1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV show Helen
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1954
Climax!
TV show Callie Bellason
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1953
Letter to Loretta
TV show Frances Palmer
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1953
General Electric Theater
TV show Emily Marsden
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1952
Actors and Sin
Movie Betty Field (Woman of Sin sequence) (archive footage)
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1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV show Lily Miller
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1950
Lux Video Theatre
TV show Carol
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1950
Robert Montgomery Presents
TV show Mrs. Howard
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1949
The Great Gatsby
Movie Daisy Buchanan
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1948
The Philco Television Playhouse
TV show Rose
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1945
The Southerner
Movie Nona Tucker
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1944
Tomorrow, the World!
Movie Leona Richards
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1944
The Great Moment
Movie Elizabeth Morton
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1943
Flesh and Fantasy
Movie Henrietta (segment 1)
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1942
Are Husbands Necessary?
Movie Mary Elizabeth Cugat
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1942
Kings Row
Movie Cassandra Tower
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1941
Blues in the Night
Movie Kay Grant
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1941
The Shepherd of the Hills
Movie Sammy Lane
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1940
Victory
Movie Alma
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1940
Seventeen
Movie Lola Pratt
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1939
Of Mice and Men
Movie Mae
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1939
What a Life
Movie Barbara Pearson
