My Fair Lady
1964 · Movie
as Lady at Ball (uncredited)
Betty Blythe
1893-08-31
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Los Angeles, California, USA
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.
Filmography
Runaway Daughters
1956 · Movie
as Party Guest (uncredited)
Hollywood Story
1951 · Movie
as Herself
Rebecca
1950 · Movie
as Mrs. Danvers
Letter from an Unknown Woman
1948 · Movie
as Frau Kohner (uncredited)
Shed No Tears
1948 · Movie
as Mrs. Peet (Uncredited)
Madonna of the Desert
1948 · Movie
as Mrs. Brown
Luxury Liner
1948 · Movie
as Miss Fenmoor (uncredited)
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
1947 · Movie
as Floor Manager (uncredited)
Something in the Wind
1947 · Movie
as Society Matron (uncredited)
Jiggs and Maggie in Society
1947 · Movie
as Mrs. Vacuum
The Postman Always Rings Twice
1946 · Movie
as Customer (uncredited)
The Undercover Woman
1946 · Movie
as Cissy Van Horn
Undercurrent
1946 · Movie
as Saleslady (uncredited)
Joe Palooka, Champ
1946 · Movie
as Mrs. Stafford
Adventure
1945 · Movie
as Mrs. Buckley (uncredited)
Docks of New York
1945 · Movie
as Mrs. Darcy
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
1945 · Movie
as Mrs. Murdock (uncredited)
They Were Expendable
1945 · Movie
as Officer's Wife (uncredited)
Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat
1944 · Movie
as Mrs. Manning
A Fig Leaf for Eve
1944 · Movie
as Lavinia Sardham
Crime Doctor
1943 · Movie
as Mrs. Harrington
Girls in Chains
1943 · Movie
as Mrs. Grey
Sarong Girl
1943 · Movie
as Miss Ellsworth
Mr. Muggs Steps Out
1943 · Movie
Spotlight Scandals
1943 · Movie
as Mrs. Baker
Bar 20
1943 · Movie
as Mrs. Stevens
Presenting Lily Mars
1943 · Movie
as Dowager
Freckles Comes Home
1942 · Movie
as Minerva Potter
House of Errors
1942 · Movie
as Mrs. Martha Randall
Piano Mooner
1942 · Movie
as Society Woman
Dawn on the Great Divide
1942 · Movie
as Mrs. Elmira Corkle
Inflation
1942 · Movie
as Next Door Neighbor Who Begins Hoarding (uncredited)
Tuxedo Junction
1941 · Movie
as Miss Hornblower
Federal Fugitives
1941 · Movie
as Marcia
Sis Hopkins
1941 · Movie
as Mrs. Farnsworth
Puddin' Head
1941 · Movie
as Mrs. Bowser
Top Sergeant Mulligan
1941 · Movie
as Mrs. Lewis
The Miracle Kid
1941 · Movie
as Madame Gloria
Our Wife
1941 · Movie
as Minor Role (uncredited)
Honky Tonk
1941 · Movie
as Mrs. Wilson
Earl of Puddlestone
1940 · Movie
as Millicent Potter-Potter
Misbehaving Husbands
1940 · Movie
as Effie Butler
The Women
1939 · Movie
as Mrs. South (uncredited)
Gangster's Boy
1938 · Movie
as Mrs. Davis
Romance of the Limberlost
1938 · Movie
as Mrs. Parker
Delinquent Parents
1938 · Movie
as Mrs. Wharton
Life in Sometown, U.S.A.
1938 · Movie
as Mrs. Himber (uncredited)
Hold That Kiss
1938 · Movie
as Wedding Guest at Piermont's
Espionage
1937 · Movie
as Train Passenger
Topper
1937 · Movie
as Mrs. Goodrich (uncredited)
What Do You Think? (Number Two)
1937 · Movie
The Gorgeous Hussy
1936 · Movie
as Mrs. Wainwright
Murder at Glen Athol
1936 · Movie
as Ann Randel
Rainbow on the River
1936 · Movie
as Flower Buyer (uncredited)
Yours for the Asking
1936 · Movie
as May (uncredited)
I've Been Around
1935 · Movie
as Betty
The Spanish Cape Mystery
1935 · Movie
as Mrs. Godfrey
The Perfect Clue
1935 · Movie
as Ursula Chesebrough
Western Courage
1935 · Movie
as Mrs. Hanley
Cheers of the Crowd
1935 · Movie
as Lil Langdon Walton
The Scarlet Letter
1934 · Movie
as Innkeeper
A Girl of the Limberlost
1934 · Movie
as Mrs. Parker
Two Heads on a Pillow
1934 · Movie
as Mrs. Agnes Walker
Money Means Nothing
1934 · Movie
as Mrs. Ferris
Night Alarm
1934 · Movie
as Mrs. Elizabeth Van Dusen
Ever Since Eve
1934 · Movie
as Mrs. Vandergrift
Badge of Honor
1934 · Movie
as Mrs. Claire van Alstyne
Before Midnight
1933 · Movie
as Mavis Fry
Only Yesterday
1933 · Movie
as Mrs. Vincent (Uncredited)
Pilgrimage
1933 · Movie
as Janet Prescot
Lena Rivers
1932 · Movie
as Mathilda Nichols
Back Street
1932 · Movie
as Gossip (uncredited)
Tom Brown of Culver
1932 · Movie
as Dolores Delight
Stars of Yesterday
1931 · Movie
as Self
Domestic Troubles
1928 · Movie
as Carrie
Stolen Love
1928 · Movie
as Modiste
Glorious Betsy
1928 · Movie
as Princess Fredericka
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Sisters of Eve
1928 · Movie
as Mrs. Wenham Gardner
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Into No Man's Land
1928 · Movie
as The Countess
A Million Bid
1927 · Movie
as Mrs. Gordon
The Girl from Gay Paree
1927 · Movie
as Mademoiselle Fanchon
Snowbound
1927 · Movie
as Julia Barry
Percy
1925 · Movie
as Lolita
She
1925 · Movie
as Ayesha
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Southern Love
1924 · Movie
as Dolores
Chu-Chin-Chow
1924 · Movie
as Zahrat
In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter
1924 · Movie
as Rita Sismondi
Folly of Vanity
1924 · Movie
as Mrs. Ridgeway (modern sequence)
The Spitfire
1924 · Movie
as Jean Bronson
The Breath of Scandal
1924 · Movie
as Sybil Russell
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The Truth About Wives
1923 · Movie
as Helen Frazer
How Women Love
1922 · Movie
as Rosa Roma
Fair Lady
1922 · Movie
as Countess Margherita
His Wife's Husband
1922 · Movie
as Olympia Brewster
The Queen of Sheba
1921 · Movie
as Queen of Sheba
Disraeli
1921 · Movie
Charge It
1921 · Movie
as Mille Garreth
Mother o' Mine
1921 · Movie
as Fan Baxter
Nomads of the North
1920 · Movie
as Nanette
The Silver Horde
1920 · Movie
as Mildred Wayland
Burnt Wings
1920 · Movie
as Helen
Occasionally Yours
1920 · Movie
as Bunny Winston
The Third Generation
1920 · Movie
as Helen Van Dusen
The Undercurrent
1919 · Movie
as Mariska
Beating the Odds
1919 · Movie
as Hebe Norse
Over the Top
1918 · Movie
as Madame Arnot
Miss Ambition
1918 · Movie
as Edith Webster
The Business of Life
1918 · Movie
as Elena Clydesdale
The Green God
1918 · Movie
as Muriel Temple
A Game with Fate
1918 · Movie
as Elaine Huntington
The King of Diamonds
1918 · Movie
as Lucille Bennett
Slander
1916 · Movie
