
Betty Blythe
Known for Acting · 113 credits
- Born
- 1893-08-31
- Died
- 1972-04-07
- Place of birth
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- 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".
Known For

My Fair Lady
1964
as Lady at Ball (uncredited)

The Women
1939
as Mrs. South (uncredited)

The Postman Always Rings Twice
1946
as Customer (uncredited)

They Were Expendable
1945
as Officer's Wife (uncredited)

Undercurrent
1946
as Saleslady (uncredited)

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
1947
as Floor Manager (uncredited)
Movies (113)

My Fair Lady
1964
as Lady at Ball (uncredited)

The Women
1939
as Mrs. South (uncredited)

The Postman Always Rings Twice
1946
as Customer (uncredited)

They Were Expendable
1945
as Officer's Wife (uncredited)

Undercurrent
1946
as Saleslady (uncredited)

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
1947
as Floor Manager (uncredited)

Topper
1937
as Mrs. Goodrich (uncredited)

Letter from an Unknown Woman
1948
as Frau Kohner (uncredited)

Adventure
1945
as Mrs. Buckley (uncredited)

Honky Tonk
1941
as Mrs. Wilson

Western Courage
1935
as Mrs. Hanley

She
1925
as Ayesha

Only Yesterday
1933
as Mrs. Vincent (Uncredited)

Our Wife
1941
as Minor Role (uncredited)

Hollywood Story
1951
as Herself

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
1945
as Mrs. Murdock (uncredited)

Glorious Betsy
1928
as Princess Fredericka

Sarong Girl
1943
as Miss Ellsworth

Lena Rivers
1932
as Mathilda Nichols

The Gorgeous Hussy
1936
as Mrs. Wainwright

Charge It
1921
as Mille Garreth

Hold That Kiss
1938
as Wedding Guest at Piermont's

Espionage
1937
as Train Passenger

Yours for the Asking
1936
as May (uncredited)

Federal Fugitives
1941
as Marcia

Pilgrimage
1933
as Janet Prescot

The Miracle Kid
1941
as Madame Gloria

Shed No Tears
1948
as Mrs. Peet (Uncredited)

Rainbow on the River
1936
as Flower Buyer (uncredited)

Inflation
1942
as Next Door Neighbor Who Begins Hoarding (uncredited)

Puddin' Head
1941
as Mrs. Bowser

Back Street
1932
as Gossip (uncredited)

Runaway Daughters
1956
as Party Guest (uncredited)

Delinquent Parents
1938
as Mrs. Wharton

Crime Doctor
1943
as Mrs. Harrington

Freckles Comes Home
1942
as Minerva Potter

Murder at Glen Athol
1936
as Ann Randel

The Scarlet Letter
1934
as Innkeeper

Presenting Lily Mars
1943
as Dowager

Luxury Liner
1948
as Miss Fenmoor (uncredited)

Before Midnight
1933
as Mavis Fry

Bar 20
1943
as Mrs. Stevens

Night Alarm
1934
as Mrs. Elizabeth Van Dusen

Stolen Love
1928
as Modiste

Earl of Puddlestone
1940
as Millicent Potter-Potter

Girls in Chains
1943
as Mrs. Grey

Cheers of the Crowd
1935
as Lil Langdon Walton

Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat
1944
as Mrs. Manning

Dawn on the Great Divide
1942
as Mrs. Elmira Corkle

Folly of Vanity
1924
as Mrs. Ridgeway (modern sequence)

Gangster's Boy
1938
as Mrs. Davis

Romance of the Limberlost
1938
as Mrs. Parker

The Silver Horde
1920
as Mildred Wayland

Misbehaving Husbands
1940
as Effie Butler

The Spanish Cape Mystery
1935
as Mrs. Godfrey

Something in the Wind
1947
as Society Matron (uncredited)

Jiggs and Maggie in Society
1947
as Mrs. Vacuum

Fair Lady
1922
as Countess Margherita

Snowbound
1927
as Julia Barry

Madonna of the Desert
1948
as Mrs. Brown

A Girl of the Limberlost
1934
as Mrs. Parker

Tom Brown of Culver
1932
as Dolores Delight

The Business of Life
1918
as Elena Clydesdale

I've Been Around
1935

Two Heads on a Pillow
1934
as Mrs. Agnes Walker

Disraeli
1921

A Million Bid
1927
as Mrs. Gordon

Ever Since Eve
1934
as Mrs. Vandergrift

The Girl from Gay Paree
1927
as Mademoiselle Fanchon

The Perfect Clue
1935
as Ursula Chesebrough

Sis Hopkins
1941
as Mrs. Farnsworth

Life in Sometown, U.S.A.
1938
as Mrs. Himber (uncredited)

The Spitfire
1924
as Jean Bronson

The Undercover Woman
1946
as Cissy Van Horn

The Queen of Sheba
1921
as Queen of Sheba

The Third Generation
1920
as Helen Van Dusen

A Fig Leaf for Eve
1944
as Lavinia Sardham

Top Sergeant Mulligan
1941
as Mrs. Lewis

Mr. Muggs Steps Out
1943

Joe Palooka, Champ
1946
as Mrs. Stafford

Nomads of the North
1920
as Nanette

Miss Ambition
1918
as Edith Webster

Tuxedo Junction
1941
as Miss Hornblower

Slander
1916

House of Errors
1942
as Mrs. Martha Randall

Occasionally Yours
1920
as Bunny Winston

Badge of Honor
1934
as Mrs. Claire van Alstyne
Southern Love
1924
as Dolores

In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter
1924
as Rita Sismondi

A Game with Fate
1918
as Elaine Huntington

Money Means Nothing
1934
as Mrs. Ferris

Percy
1925
as Lolita

Domestic Troubles
1928
as Carrie

How Women Love
1922
as Rosa Roma

Docks of New York
1945
as Mrs. Darcy
Into No Man's Land
1928
as The Countess

Spotlight Scandals
1943
as Mrs. Baker

The King of Diamonds
1918
as Lucille Bennett
The Truth About Wives
1923
as Helen Frazer

Piano Mooner
1942
as Society Woman

His Wife's Husband
1922
as Olympia Brewster

Rebecca
1950
as Mrs. Danvers

Burnt Wings
1920
as Helen

What Do You Think? (Number Two)
1937

Chu-Chin-Chow
1924
as Zahrat
Sisters of Eve
1928
as Mrs. Wenham Gardner

The Breath of Scandal
1924
as Sybil Russell

Stars of Yesterday
1931
as Self

Over the Top
1918
as Madame Arnot

Mother o' Mine
1921
as Fan Baxter

The Undercurrent
1919
as Mariska

Beating the Odds
1919
as Hebe Norse

The Green God
1918
as Muriel Temple
About Betty Blythe
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… With 113 credits spanning from 1916 to 1964, Betty Blythe has appeared in 113 films and 0 TV shows.
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- My Fair Lady (1964) — as Lady at Ball (uncredited)
- The Women (1939) — as Mrs. South (uncredited)
- The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) — as Customer (uncredited)
- They Were Expendable (1945) — as Officer's Wife (uncredited)
- Undercurrent (1946) — as Saleslady (uncredited)
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