Cast
Betty Blythe
Acting
Cast
Betty Blythe
Known for
Acting
Born
1893-08-31
From
Los Angeles, California, USA
Died
1972-04-07
Also known as Elizabeth Blythe Slaughter
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.
My Fair Lady
as Lady at Ball (uncredited)
Undercurrent
as Saleslady (uncredited)
The Women
as Mrs. South (uncredited)
Our Wife
as Minor Role (uncredited)
The Postman Always Rings Twice
as Customer (uncredited)
Topper
as Mrs. Goodrich (uncredited)
They Were Expendable
as Officer's Wife (uncredited)
Delinquent Parents
as Mrs. Wharton
Letter from an Unknown Woman
as Frau Kohner (uncredited)
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
as Floor Manager (uncredited)
Adventure
as Mrs. Buckley (uncredited)
Charge It
as Mille Garreth
Pilgrimage
as Janet Prescot
Western Courage
as Mrs. Hanley
Crime Doctor
as Mrs. Harrington
Shed No Tears
as Mrs. Peet (Uncredited)
Honky Tonk
as Mrs. Wilson
Runaway Daughters
as Party Guest (uncredited)
She
as Ayesha
Only Yesterday
as Mrs. Vincent (Uncredited)
Sarong Girl
as Miss Ellsworth
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
as Mrs. Murdock (uncredited)
Hollywood Story
as Herself
Back Street
as Gossip (uncredited)
The Scarlet Letter
as Innkeeper
Murder at Glen Athol
as Ann Randel
Puddin' Head
as Mrs. Bowser
Glorious Betsy
as Princess Fredericka
The Gorgeous Hussy
as Mrs. Wainwright
Luxury Liner
as Miss Fenmoor (uncredited)
Espionage
as Train Passenger
Lena Rivers
as Mathilda Nichols
Freckles Comes Home
as Minerva Potter
The Truth About Wives
as Helen Frazer
Before Midnight
as Mavis Fry
Dawn on the Great Divide
as Mrs. Elmira Corkle
Rainbow on the River
as Flower Buyer (uncredited)
Hold That Kiss
as Wedding Guest at Piermont's
Inflation
as Next Door Neighbor Who Begins Hoarding (uncredited)
The Miracle Kid
as Madame Gloria
Federal Fugitives
as Marcia
Joe Palooka, Champ
as Mrs. Stafford
Romance of the Limberlost
as Mrs. Parker
Sis Hopkins
as Mrs. Farnsworth
Docks of New York
as Mrs. Darcy
Money Means Nothing
as Mrs. Ferris
Night Alarm
as Mrs. Elizabeth Van Dusen
Presenting Lily Mars
as Dowager
Bar 20
as Mrs. Stevens
Girls in Chains
as Mrs. Grey
Yours for the Asking
as May (uncredited)
Disraeli
Jiggs and Maggie in Society
as Mrs. Vacuum
Earl of Puddlestone
as Millicent Potter-Potter
Ever Since Eve
as Mrs. Vandergrift
How Women Love
as Rosa Roma
Madonna of the Desert
as Mrs. Brown
His Wife's Husband
as Olympia Brewster
Stolen Love
as Modiste
Cheers of the Crowd
as Lil Langdon Walton
Something in the Wind
as Society Matron (uncredited)
Gangster's Boy
as Mrs. Davis
The Undercover Woman
as Cissy Van Horn
Fair Lady
as Countess Margherita
Tom Brown of Culver
as Dolores Delight
Snowbound
as Julia Barry
Folly of Vanity
as Mrs. Ridgeway (modern sequence)
Top Sergeant Mulligan
as Mrs. Lewis
A Girl of the Limberlost
as Mrs. Parker
Nomads of the North
as Nanette
The Silver Horde
as Mildred Wayland
The Spitfire
as Jean Bronson
Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat
as Mrs. Manning
House of Errors
as Mrs. Martha Randall
Two Heads on a Pillow
as Mrs. Agnes Walker
A Game with Fate
as Elaine Huntington
The Green God
as Muriel Temple
Into No Man's Land
as The Countess
Southern Love
as Dolores
Misbehaving Husbands
as Effie Butler
Slander
In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter
as Rita Sismondi
The Girl from Gay Paree
as Mademoiselle Fanchon
The Third Generation
as Helen Van Dusen
The Spanish Cape Mystery
as Mrs. Godfrey
Mr. Muggs Steps Out
Badge of Honor
as Mrs. Claire van Alstyne
What Do You Think? (Number Two)
The Business of Life
as Elena Clydesdale
The Perfect Clue
as Ursula Chesebrough
Percy
as Lolita
A Fig Leaf for Eve
as Lavinia Sardham
A Million Bid
as Mrs. Gordon
Occasionally Yours
as Bunny Winston
Life in Sometown, U.S.A.
as Mrs. Himber (uncredited)
I've Been Around
Spotlight Scandals
as Mrs. Baker
Miss Ambition
as Edith Webster
Over the Top
as Madame Arnot
Piano Mooner
as Society Woman
The Undercurrent
as Mariska
The King of Diamonds
as Lucille Bennett
Rebecca
as Mrs. Danvers
Burnt Wings
as Helen
Stars of Yesterday
as Self
Domestic Troubles
as Carrie
Chu-Chin-Chow
as Zahrat
The Queen of Sheba
as Queen of Sheba
Tuxedo Junction
as Miss Hornblower
Mother o' Mine
as Fan Baxter
Beating the Odds
as Hebe Norse
The Breath of Scandal
as Sybil Russell
Sisters of Eve
as Mrs. Wenham Gardner