Betty Blythe
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- 31 de agosto de 1893 · Los Angeles, California, USA
- 7 de abril de 1972
Biografía
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.
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Filmografía
- My Fair Lady (Mi bella dama) · Lady at Ball (uncredited)
- Runaway Daughters · Party Guest (uncredited)
- Crimen en Hollywood · En persona
- Rebecca · Mrs. Danvers
- Adorable coqueta · Miss Fenmoor (uncredited)
- Shed No Tears · Mrs. Peet (Uncredited)
- Carta de una desconocida · Frau Kohner (uncredited)
- Madonna of the Desert · Mrs. Brown
- Jiggs and Maggie in Society · Mrs. Vacuum
- La vida secreta de Walter Mitty · Floor Manager (uncredited)
- El diablillo ya es mujer · Society Matron (uncredited)
- Corrientes ocultas · Saleslady (uncredited)
- Joe Palooka, Champ · Mrs. Stafford
- El cartero siempre llama dos veces · Customer (uncredited)
- The Undercover Woman · Cissy Van Horn
- Aventura · Mrs. Buckley (uncredited)
- No eran imprescindibles · Officer's Wife (uncredited)
- Abbott y Costello en Hollywood · Mrs. Murdock (uncredited)
- Docks of New York · Mrs. Darcy
- A Fig Leaf for Eve · Lavinia Sardham
- Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat · Mrs. Manning
- Mr. Muggs Steps Out
- Bar 20 · Mrs. Stevens
- Spotlight Scandals · Mrs. Baker
- Crime Doctor · Mrs. Harrington
- Sarong Girl · Miss Ellsworth
- Girls in Chains · Mrs. Grey
- Presenting Lily Mars · Dowager
- Dawn on the Great Divide · Mrs. Elmira Corkle
- Piano Mooner · Society Woman
- House of Errors · Mrs. Martha Randall
- Freckles Comes Home · Minerva Potter
- Inflation · Next Door Neighbor Who Begins Hoarding (uncredited)
- Tuxedo Junction · Miss Hornblower
- The Miracle Kid · Madame Gloria
- Top Sergeant Mulligan · Mrs. Lewis
- Quiero a este hombre · Mrs. Wilson
- Our Wife · Minor Role (uncredited)
- Puddin' Head · Mrs. Bowser
- Sis Hopkins · Mrs. Farnsworth
- Federal Fugitives · Marcia
- Misbehaving Husbands · Effie Butler
- Earl of Puddlestone · Millicent Potter-Potter
- Mujeres · Mrs. South (uncredited)
- Gangster's Boy · Mrs. Davis
- Delinquent Parents · Mrs. Wharton
- Romance of the Limberlost · Mrs. Parker
- Hold That Kiss · Wedding Guest at Piermont's
- Life in Sometown, U.S.A. · Mrs. Himber (uncredited)
- What Do You Think? (Number Two)
- Una pareja invisible · Mrs. Goodrich (uncredited)
- Espionage · Train Passenger
- Rainbow on the River · Flower Buyer (uncredited)
- La espléndida descarada · Mrs. Wainwright
- Yours for the Asking · May (uncredited)
- Murder at Glen Athol · Ann Randel
- Western Courage · Mrs. Hanley
- The Spanish Cape Mystery · Mrs. Godfrey
- Cheers of the Crowd · Lil Langdon Walton
- The Perfect Clue · Ursula Chesebrough
- I've Been Around · Betty
- Night Alarm · Mrs. Elizabeth Van Dusen
- A Girl of the Limberlost · Mrs. Parker
- Two Heads on a Pillow · Mrs. Agnes Walker
- The Scarlet Letter · Innkeeper
- Money Means Nothing · Mrs. Ferris
- Badge of Honor · Mrs. Claire van Alstyne
- De Eva para acá · Mrs. Vandergrift
- Before Midnight · Mavis Fry
- Parece que fue ayer · Mrs. Vincent (Uncredited)
- Peregrinos · Janet Prescot
- La usurpadora · Gossip (uncredited)
- ¿Héroe o cobarde? · Dolores Delight
- Lena Rivers · Mathilda Nichols
- Stars of Yesterday · En persona
- Stolen Love · Modiste
- Sisters of Eve · Mrs. Wenham Gardner
- Into No Man's Land · The Countess
- Glorious Betsy · Princess Fredericka
- Domestic Troubles · Carrie