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