Betty Blythe

Acting · 0.7 popularity

Age

132

Movies

113

Born: August 31, 1893 – April 7, 1972
From: Los Angeles, California, USA

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.

Works

113 films

My Fair Lady

19647.5

The Women

19397.2

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

19476.8

The Postman Always Rings Twice

19467.1

Letter from an Unknown Woman

19487.8

Undercurrent

19465.9

Snowbound

192710.0

They Were Expendable

19456.5

Honky Tonk

19416.4

Shed No Tears

19485.1

Topper

19376.8

Our Wife

19416.8

Fair Lady

19228.0

Sis Hopkins

19416.3

Hollywood Story

19516.7

Girls in Chains

19434.7

Presenting Lily Mars

19436.4

Back Street

19326.4

The Gorgeous Hussy

19365.5

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood

19455.8

Only Yesterday

19337.1

Adventure

19456.4

Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat

19446.5

Miss Ambition

1918

Rebecca

1950

Hold That Kiss

19387.0

Before Midnight

19334.6

Crime Doctor

19436.4

Murder at Glen Athol

19367.0

Pilgrimage

19337.1

Luxury Liner

19485.8

Slander

19162.3

Bar 20

19434.9

Yours for the Asking

19365.3

The Third Generation

19207.0

Jiggs and Maggie in Society

19478.0

The Miracle Kid

19415.5

Something in the Wind

19477.0

His Wife's Husband

19227.0

Misbehaving Husbands

19405.2

The Breath of Scandal

19249.0

Dawn on the Great Divide

19425.3

Rainbow on the River

19368.7

Glorious Betsy

19286.0

Runaway Daughters

19564.3

Inflation

19426.3

Mother o' Mine

19218.0

Tom Brown of Culver

19326.8

Freckles Comes Home

19425.8

Top Sergeant Mulligan

19416.5

Lena Rivers

19327.0

A Game with Fate

1918

Two Heads on a Pillow

19347.0

Night Alarm

19345.4

Puddin' Head

19416.5

Federal Fugitives

19416.3

Money Means Nothing

19345.8

I've Been Around

19354.0

Espionage

19377.0

Disraeli

19217.0

Ever Since Eve

19349.0

Nomads of the North

19205.7

Piano Mooner

19427.0

Delinquent Parents

19387.3

The Scarlet Letter

19345.1

Docks of New York

19458.0

The Green God

191810.0

Mr. Muggs Steps Out

19438.0

The King of Diamonds

19187.0

Sarong Girl

19437.0

Western Courage

19358.0

Madonna of the Desert

19488.0

Cheers of the Crowd

19355.8

Sisters of Eve

19288.0

A Million Bid

19277.0

The Undercover Woman

19463.3

Earl of Puddlestone

194010.0

Joe Palooka, Champ

19468.0

The Business of Life

19181.0

House of Errors

194210.0

Folly of Vanity

19248.0

Gangster's Boy

19386.0

The Perfect Clue

19356.0

The Spanish Cape Mystery

19355.6

Percy

192510.0

A Girl of the Limberlost

19343.0

Southern Love

19249.0

The Spitfire

19249.0

Romance of the Limberlost

19386.5

How Women Love

19228.0

A Fig Leaf for Eve

19444.8

The Silver Horde

192010.0

Life in Sometown, U.S.A.

19387.3

The Queen of Sheba

19219.0

She

19256.2

Stolen Love

19287.0

Over the Top

1918

Stars of Yesterday

19319.0

Spotlight Scandals

19435.0

The Girl from Gay Paree

19277.0

Chu-Chin-Chow

19249.0

Charge It

19218.0

What Do You Think? (Number Two)

19379.0

In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter

19249.0

The Truth About Wives

19238.0

Domestic Troubles

19289.0

Tuxedo Junction

194110.0

Burnt Wings

19208.0

Beating the Odds

19197.0

The Undercurrent

191910.0

Badge of Honor

19345.3

Into No Man's Land

19287.0

Occasionally Yours

19208.0