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 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.
113 acting credits
Acting · 113
My Fair Lady
1964
They Were Expendable
1945
The Women
1939
The Postman Always Rings Twice
1946
Letter from an Unknown Woman
1948
Topper
1937
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
1947
Undercurrent
1946
Honky Tonk
1941
The Spanish Cape Mystery
1935
She
1925
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
1945
Glorious Betsy
1928
Back Street
1932
Hollywood Story
1951
Our Wife
1941
Crime Doctor
1943
The Scarlet Letter
1934
The Gorgeous Hussy
1936
Rainbow on the River
1936
Luxury Liner
1948
Pilgrimage
1933
Only Yesterday
1933
Two Heads on a Pillow
1934
Adventure
1945
Lena Rivers
1932
Shed No Tears
1948
Earl of Puddlestone
1940
Presenting Lily Mars
1943
Espionage
1937
Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat
1944
Sarong Girl
1943
A Girl of the Limberlost
1934
Puddin' Head
1941
Gangster's Boy
1938
Inflation
1942
Joe Palooka, Champ
1946
Runaway Daughters
1956
Hold That Kiss
1938
Tuxedo Junction
1941
Federal Fugitives
1941
Nomads of the North
1920
Percy
1925
Yours for the Asking
1936
Mr. Muggs Steps Out
1943
The Silver Horde
1920
I've Been Around
1935
Girls in Chains
1943
The Miracle Kid
1941
Misbehaving Husbands
1940
Romance of the Limberlost
1938
Bar 20
1943
Madonna of the Desert
1948
Stolen Love
1928
Before Midnight
1933
Delinquent Parents
1938
The Third Generation
1920
Spotlight Scandals
1943
The Undercover Woman
1946
Freckles Comes Home
1942
Miss Ambition
1918
The Girl from Gay Paree
1927
Snowbound
1927
Jiggs and Maggie in Society
1947
Night Alarm
1934
The Spitfire
1924
Disraeli
1921
Sis Hopkins
1941
Dawn on the Great Divide
1942
A Million Bid
1927
Something in the Wind
1947
Money Means Nothing
1934
Into No Man's Land
1928
Fair Lady
1922
Rebecca
1950
Cheers of the Crowd
1935
A Fig Leaf for Eve
1944
How Women Love
1922
Life in Sometown, U.S.A.
1938
Folly of Vanity
1924
Ever Since Eve
1934
Top Sergeant Mulligan
1941
Tom Brown of Culver
1932
The Perfect Clue
1935
What Do You Think? (Number Two)
1937
Western Courage
1935
Murder at Glen Athol
1936
Badge of Honor
1934
Southern Love
1924
Charge It
1921
House of Errors
1942
Burnt Wings
1920
Docks of New York
1945
Piano Mooner
1942
Chu-Chin-Chow
1924
Slander
1916
Stars of Yesterday
1931
Occasionally Yours
1920
The Queen of Sheba
1921
His Wife's Husband
1922
In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter
1924
Domestic Troubles
1928
Beating the Odds
1919
The Truth About Wives
1923
The Breath of Scandal
1924
Sisters of Eve
1928
The Green God
1918
A Game with Fate
1918
The Undercurrent
1919
The Business of Life
1918
Over the Top
1918
The King of Diamonds
1918
Mother o' Mine
1921