Betty Blythe

Known for ActingBorn 1893-08-31Died 1972-04-07Los Angeles, California, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

House of Errors

Tuxedo Junction

Earl of Puddlestone

Snowbound

Percy

The Silver Horde

The Undercurrent

The Green God

What Do You Think? (Number Two)

Ever Since Eve

Stars of Yesterday

Domestic Troubles

Southern Love

Chu-Chin-Chow

In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter

The Spitfire

The Breath of Scandal

The Queen of Sheba

Rainbow on the River

Madonna of the Desert

Jiggs and Maggie in Society

Joe Palooka, Champ

Docks of New York

Mr. Muggs Steps Out

Western Courage

Sisters of Eve

Letter from an Unknown Woman

Folly of Vanity

The Truth About Wives

How Women Love

Fair Lady

Charge It

Mother o' Mine

Burnt Wings

Occasionally Yours

My Fair Lady

Delinquent Parents

Life in Sometown, U.S.A.

The Postman Always Rings Twice

The Women

Something in the Wind

Sarong Girl

Only Yesterday

Pilgrimage

Piano Mooner

Hold That Kiss

Espionage

Murder at Glen Athol