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.
★7.5
MOVIE1964
My Fair Lady
as Lady at Ball (uncredited)
★10.0
MOVIE1927
Snowbound
as Julia Barry
★8.0
MOVIE1922
Fair Lady
as Countess Margherita
MOVIE1918
Miss Ambition
as Edith Webster
★5.5
MOVIE1936
The Gorgeous Hussy
as Mrs. Wainwright
★6.8
MOVIE1941
Our Wife
as Minor Role (uncredited)
★5.1
MOVIE1948
Shed No Tears
as Mrs. Peet (Uncredited)
★7.2
MOVIE1939
The Women
as Mrs. South (uncredited)
★6.5
MOVIE1945
They Were Expendable
as Officer's Wife (uncredited)
★6.3
MOVIE1941
Sis Hopkins
as Mrs. Farnsworth
★8.0
MOVIE1921
Mother o' Mine
as Fan Baxter
★7.8
MOVIE1948
Letter from an Unknown Woman
as Frau Kohner (uncredited)
★7.1
MOVIE1946
The Postman Always Rings Twice
as Customer (uncredited)
★5.9
MOVIE1946
Undercurrent
as Saleslady (uncredited)
★6.4
MOVIE1941
Honky Tonk
as Mrs. Wilson
★6.4
MOVIE1943
Presenting Lily Mars
as Dowager
★6.5
MOVIE1944
Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat
as Mrs. Manning
★6.7
MOVIE1951
Hollywood Story
as Herself
★7.1
MOVIE1933
Only Yesterday
as Mrs. Vincent (Uncredited)
★4.7
MOVIE1943
Girls in Chains
as Mrs. Grey
★2.3
MOVIE1916
Slander
★4.9
MOVIE1943
Bar 20
as Mrs. Stevens
★7.0
MOVIE1943
Sarong Girl
as Miss Ellsworth
MOVIE1950
Rebecca
as Mrs. Danvers
★7.0
MOVIE1920
The Third Generation
as Helen Van Dusen
★6.8
MOVIE1937
Topper
as Mrs. Goodrich (uncredited)
★6.4
MOVIE1943
Crime Doctor
as Mrs. Harrington
★7.1
MOVIE1933
Pilgrimage
as Janet Prescot
★7.0
MOVIE1927
A Million Bid
as Mrs. Gordon
★6.8
MOVIE1932
Tom Brown of Culver
as Dolores Delight
★7.0
MOVIE1922
His Wife's Husband
as Olympia Brewster
★9.0
MOVIE1924
The Breath of Scandal
as Sybil Russell
★7.0
MOVIE1934
Two Heads on a Pillow
as Mrs. Agnes Walker
MOVIE1918
A Game with Fate
as Elaine Huntington
MOVIE1918
The Business of Life
as Elena Clydesdale
★6.8
MOVIE1947
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
as Floor Manager (uncredited)
★6.0
MOVIE1928
Glorious Betsy
as Princess Fredericka
★5.2
MOVIE1940
Misbehaving Husbands
as Effie Butler
★6.4
MOVIE1932
Back Street
as Gossip (uncredited)
★7.3
MOVIE1938
Life in Sometown, U.S.A.
as Mrs. Himber (uncredited)
★5.8
MOVIE1935
Cheers of the Crowd
as Lil Langdon Walton
★6.4
MOVIE1945
Adventure
as Mrs. Buckley (uncredited)
★5.8
MOVIE1945
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
as Mrs. Murdock (uncredited)
★10.0
MOVIE1918
The Green God
as Muriel Temple
★8.0
MOVIE1946
Joe Palooka, Champ
as Mrs. Stafford
★7.0
MOVIE1947
Something in the Wind
as Society Matron (uncredited)
★8.0
MOVIE1945
Docks of New York
as Mrs. Darcy
★4.3
MOVIE1956
Runaway Daughters
as Party Guest (uncredited)
★5.1
MOVIE1934
The Scarlet Letter
as Innkeeper
★5.4
MOVIE1934
Night Alarm
as Mrs. Elizabeth Van Dusen
★7.0
MOVIE1918
The King of Diamonds
as Lucille Bennett
★4.6
MOVIE1933
Before Midnight
as Mavis Fry
★5.8
MOVIE1934
Money Means Nothing
as Mrs. Ferris
★5.6
MOVIE1935
The Spanish Cape Mystery
as Mrs. Godfrey
★5.8
MOVIE1948
Luxury Liner
as Miss Fenmoor (uncredited)
★10.0
MOVIE1941
Tuxedo Junction
as Miss Hornblower
★3.3
MOVIE1946
The Undercover Woman
as Cissy Van Horn
★7.0
MOVIE1938
Hold That Kiss
as Wedding Guest at Piermont's
★8.0
MOVIE1948
Madonna of the Desert
as Mrs. Brown
★4.8
MOVIE1944
A Fig Leaf for Eve
as Lavinia Sardham
★7.0
MOVIE1932
Lena Rivers
as Mathilda Nichols
★10.0
MOVIE1942
House of Errors
as Mrs. Martha Randall
★7.0
MOVIE1927
The Girl from Gay Paree
as Mademoiselle Fanchon
★7.0
MOVIE1937
Espionage
as Train Passenger
★9.0
MOVIE1921
The Queen of Sheba
as Queen of Sheba
★5.8
MOVIE1942
Freckles Comes Home
as Minerva Potter
★10.0
MOVIE1920
The Silver Horde
as Mildred Wayland
★5.0
MOVIE1943
Spotlight Scandals
as Mrs. Baker
★7.0
MOVIE1936
Murder at Glen Athol
as Ann Randel
★8.0
MOVIE1922
How Women Love
as Rosa Roma
★5.5
MOVIE1941
The Miracle Kid
as Madame Gloria
★8.0
MOVIE1943
Mr. Muggs Steps Out
★8.0
MOVIE1935
Western Courage
as Mrs. Hanley
★5.3
MOVIE1936
Yours for the Asking
as May (uncredited)
★6.5
MOVIE1941
Top Sergeant Mulligan
as Mrs. Lewis
★6.2
MOVIE1925
She
as Ayesha
★6.0
MOVIE1935
The Perfect Clue
as Ursula Chesebrough
★5.3
MOVIE1942
Dawn on the Great Divide
as Mrs. Elmira Corkle
★6.5
MOVIE1941
Puddin' Head
as Mrs. Bowser
★8.7
MOVIE1936
Rainbow on the River
as Flower Buyer (uncredited)
★7.3
MOVIE1938
Delinquent Parents
as Mrs. Wharton
★6.3
MOVIE1941
Federal Fugitives
as Marcia
MOVIE1918
Over the Top
as Madame Arnot
★6.0
MOVIE1938
Gangster's Boy
as Mrs. Davis
★8.0
MOVIE1947
Jiggs and Maggie in Society
as Mrs. Vacuum
★10.0
MOVIE1925
Percy
as Lolita
★5.7
MOVIE1920
Nomads of the North
as Nanette
★6.5
MOVIE1938
Romance of the Limberlost
as Mrs. Parker
★7.0
MOVIE1921
Disraeli
★9.0
MOVIE1928
Domestic Troubles
as Carrie
★7.0
MOVIE1928
Into No Man's Land
as The Countess
★9.0
MOVIE1924
Southern Love
as Dolores
★8.0
MOVIE1920
Occasionally Yours
as Bunny Winston
★7.0
MOVIE1942
Piano Mooner
as Society Woman
★10.0
MOVIE1940
Earl of Puddlestone
as Millicent Potter-Potter
★4.0
MOVIE1935
I've Been Around
★8.0
MOVIE1923
The Truth About Wives
as Helen Frazer
★6.3
MOVIE1942
Inflation
as Next Door Neighbor Who Begins Hoarding (uncredited)
★3.0
MOVIE1934
A Girl of the Limberlost
as Mrs. Parker
★9.0
MOVIE1924
Chu-Chin-Chow
as Zahrat
★9.0
MOVIE1924
In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter
as Rita Sismondi
★9.0
MOVIE1924
The Spitfire
as Jean Bronson
★9.0
MOVIE1934
Ever Since Eve
as Mrs. Vandergrift
★10.0
MOVIE1919
The Undercurrent
as Mariska
★8.0
MOVIE1920
Burnt Wings
as Helen
★9.0
MOVIE1937
What Do You Think? (Number Two)
★9.0
MOVIE1931
Stars of Yesterday
as Self
★8.0
MOVIE1921
Charge It
as Mille Garreth
★8.0
MOVIE1924
Folly of Vanity
as Mrs. Ridgeway (modern sequence)
★8.0
MOVIE1928
Sisters of Eve
as Mrs. Wenham Gardner
★5.3
MOVIE1934
Badge of Honor
as Mrs. Claire van Alstyne
★7.0
MOVIE1919
Beating the Odds
as Hebe Norse
★7.0
MOVIE1928
Stolen Love
as Modiste