Betty Blythe
Acting
Born 1893-08-31
Died 1972-04-07
Los Angeles, California, USA
113 credits
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1
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star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1 won
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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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Acting
57 credits
My Fair Lady
The Women
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Letter from an Unknown Woman
The Postman Always Rings Twice
Honky Tonk
Undercurrent
Topper
Our Wife
Snowbound
They Were Expendable
Shed No Tears
Only Yesterday
Sis Hopkins
The Gorgeous Hussy
Back Street
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
Fair Lady
Girls in Chains
Pilgrimage
Presenting Lily Mars
Hollywood Story
Rebecca
Miss Ambition
Adventure
Crime Doctor
Yours for the Asking
Hold That Kiss
Glorious Betsy
The Third Generation
Bar 20
Something in the Wind
Sarong Girl
A Million Bid
Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat
Murder at Glen Athol
Western Courage
Tom Brown of Culver
Inflation
Luxury Liner
Dawn on the Great Divide
The Business of Life
Espionage
A Game with Fate
Nomads of the North
Earl of Puddlestone
Top Sergeant Mulligan
Docks of New York
Cheers of the Crowd
Night Alarm
Before Midnight
Madonna of the Desert
The Miracle Kid
The Scarlet Letter
Freckles Comes Home
The Perfect Clue
I've Been Around
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