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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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Filmography (Movies)
My Fair Lady
Character:Lady at Ball (uncredited)
Release Date:01/12/1964
Runaway Daughters
Character:Party Guest (uncredited)
Release Date:20/01/1956
Hollywood Story
Character:Herself
Release Date:01/06/1951
Luxury Liner
Character:Miss Fenmoor (uncredited)
Release Date:09/11/1948
Shed No Tears
Character:Mrs. Peet (Uncredited)
Release Date:09/06/1948
Letter from an Unknown Woman
Character:Frau Kohner (uncredited)
Release Date:28/04/1948
Madonna of the Desert
Character:Mrs. Brown
Release Date:23/02/1948
Jiggs and Maggie in Society
Character:Mrs. Vacuum
Release Date:12/12/1947
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Character:Floor Manager (uncredited)
Release Date:01/09/1947
Something in the Wind
Character:Society Matron (uncredited)
Release Date:21/07/1947
Undercurrent
Character:Saleslady (uncredited)
Release Date:11/11/1946
Joe Palooka, Champ
Character:Mrs. Stafford
Release Date:26/05/1946
The Postman Always Rings Twice
Character:Customer (uncredited)
Release Date:02/05/1946
The Undercover Woman
Character:Cissy Van Horn
Release Date:01/01/1946
Adventure
Character:Mrs. Buckley (uncredited)
Release Date:28/12/1945
They Were Expendable
Character:Officer's Wife (uncredited)
Release Date:07/12/1945
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
Character:Mrs. Murdock (uncredited)
Release Date:05/10/1945
Docks of New York
Character:Mrs. Darcy
Release Date:24/02/1945
A Fig Leaf for Eve
Character:Lavinia Sardham
Release Date:04/07/1944
Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat
Character:Mrs. Manning
Release Date:20/05/1944
Mr. Muggs Steps Out
Character:
Release Date:29/10/1943
Bar 20
Character:Mrs. Stevens
Release Date:01/10/1943
Spotlight Scandals
Character:Mrs. Baker
Release Date:24/09/1943
Crime Doctor
Character:Mrs. Harrington
Release Date:22/06/1943
Sarong Girl
Character:Miss Ellsworth
Release Date:11/06/1943
Girls in Chains
Character:Mrs. Grey
Release Date:17/05/1943
Presenting Lily Mars
Character:Dowager
Release Date:29/04/1943
Dawn on the Great Divide
Character:Mrs. Elmira Corkle
Release Date:18/12/1942
Piano Mooner
Character:Society Woman
Release Date:11/12/1942
House of Errors
Character:Mrs. Martha Randall
Release Date:10/04/1942
Freckles Comes Home
Character:Minerva Potter
Release Date:02/01/1942
Inflation
Character:Next Door Neighbor Who Begins Hoarding (uncredited)
Release Date:01/01/1942
Tuxedo Junction
Character:Miss Hornblower
Release Date:25/11/1941
The Miracle Kid
Character:Madame Gloria
Release Date:14/11/1941
Top Sergeant Mulligan
Character:Mrs. Lewis
Release Date:16/10/1941
Honky Tonk
Character:Mrs. Wilson
Release Date:01/10/1941
Our Wife
Character:Minor Role (uncredited)
Release Date:20/08/1941
Puddin' Head
Character:Mrs. Bowser
Release Date:25/06/1941
Sis Hopkins
Character:Mrs. Farnsworth
Release Date:12/04/1941
Federal Fugitives
Character:Marcia
Release Date:29/03/1941
Misbehaving Husbands
Character:Effie Butler
Release Date:20/12/1940
Earl of Puddlestone
Character:Millicent Potter-Potter
Release Date:31/08/1940
The Women
Character:Mrs. South (uncredited)
Release Date:01/09/1939
Gangster's Boy
Character:Mrs. Davis
Release Date:16/11/1938
Delinquent Parents
Character:Mrs. Wharton
Release Date:15/07/1938
Romance of the Limberlost
Character:Mrs. Parker
Release Date:16/06/1938
Hold That Kiss
Character:Wedding Guest at Piermont's
Release Date:13/05/1938
Life in Sometown, U.S.A.
Character:Mrs. Himber (uncredited)
Release Date:26/02/1938
What Do You Think? (Number Two)
Character:
Release Date:25/12/1937
Topper
Character:Mrs. Goodrich (uncredited)
Release Date:16/07/1937
Espionage
Character:Train Passenger
Release Date:26/02/1937
Rainbow on the River
Character:Flower Buyer (uncredited)
Release Date:18/12/1936
The Gorgeous Hussy
Character:Mrs. Wainwright
Release Date:28/08/1936
Yours for the Asking
Character:May (uncredited)
Release Date:23/07/1936
Murder at Glen Athol
Character:Ann Randel
Release Date:27/02/1936
Western Courage
Character:Mrs. Hanley
Release Date:29/10/1935
The Spanish Cape Mystery
Character:Mrs. Godfrey
Release Date:09/10/1935
Cheers of the Crowd
Character:Lil Langdon Walton
Release Date:05/08/1935
The Perfect Clue
Character:Ursula Chesebrough
Release Date:13/03/1935
I've Been Around
Character:
Release Date:05/03/1935
Night Alarm
Character:Mrs. Elizabeth Van Dusen
Release Date:10/12/1934
A Girl of the Limberlost
Character:Mrs. Parker
Release Date:14/10/1934
Two Heads on a Pillow
Character:Mrs. Agnes Walker
Release Date:02/10/1934
The Scarlet Letter
Character:Innkeeper
Release Date:18/09/1934
Money Means Nothing
Character:Mrs. Ferris
Release Date:14/06/1934
Badge of Honor
Character:Mrs. Claire van Alstyne
Release Date:01/04/1934
Ever Since Eve
Character:Mrs. Vandergrift
Release Date:25/03/1934
Before Midnight
Character:Mavis Fry
Release Date:18/11/1933
Only Yesterday
Character:Mrs. Vincent (Uncredited)
Release Date:01/11/1933
Pilgrimage
Character:Janet Prescot
Release Date:12/07/1933
Back Street
Character:Gossip (uncredited)
Release Date:04/08/1932
Tom Brown of Culver
Character:Dolores Delight
Release Date:30/06/1932
Lena Rivers
Character:Mathilda Nichols
Release Date:27/03/1932
Stars of Yesterday
Character:Self
Release Date:31/12/1931
Stolen Love
Character:Modiste
Release Date:02/12/1928
Sisters of Eve
Character:Mrs. Wenham Gardner
Release Date:01/09/1928
Into No Man's Land
Character:The Countess
Release Date:15/06/1928
Glorious Betsy
Character:Princess Fredericka
Release Date:25/04/1928
Domestic Troubles
Character:Carrie
Release Date:28/03/1928
The Girl from Gay Paree
Character:Mademoiselle Fanchon
Release Date:01/10/1927
A Million Bid
Character:Mrs. Gordon
Release Date:27/05/1927
Snowbound
Character:Julia Barry
Release Date:01/05/1927
She
Character:Ayesha
Release Date:20/06/1925
Percy
Character:Lolita
Release Date:05/04/1925
Folly of Vanity
Character:Mrs. Ridgeway (modern sequence)
Release Date:21/12/1924
In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter
Character:Rita Sismondi
Release Date:28/09/1924
The Breath of Scandal
Character:Sybil Russell
Release Date:01/09/1924
Chu-Chin-Chow
Character:Zahrat
Release Date:15/05/1924
The Spitfire
Character:Jean Bronson
Release Date:04/05/1924
Southern Love
Character:
Release Date:01/01/1924
The Truth About Wives
Character:Helen Frazer
Release Date:03/02/1923
How Women Love
Character:Rosa Roma
Release Date:15/10/1922
His Wife's Husband
Character:Olympia Brewster
Release Date:14/05/1922
Fair Lady
Character:Countess Margherita
Release Date:19/03/1922
Disraeli
Character:
Release Date:21/08/1921
Charge It
Character:Mille Garreth
Release Date:11/06/1921
The Queen of Sheba
Character:Queen of Sheba
Release Date:10/04/1921
Nomads of the North
Character:Nanette
Release Date:25/09/1920
Occasionally Yours
Character:Bunny Winston
Release Date:19/09/1920
The Silver Horde
Character:Mildred Wayland
Release Date:09/05/1920
Burnt Wings
Character:Helen
Release Date:29/03/1920
The Undercurrent
Character:Mariska
Release Date:16/11/1919
Beating the Odds
Character:Hebe Norse
Release Date:12/05/1919
Miss Ambition
Character:Edith Webster
Release Date:25/11/1918
Over the Top
Character:Madame Arnot
Release Date:31/03/1918
Slander
Character:
Release Date:09/04/1916
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