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Betty Blythe

31st August 1893 Los Angeles, California, USA 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.

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Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

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Rebecca 6th November 1950 as Mrs. Danvers
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Adventure 28th December 1945 as Mrs. Buckley (uncredited)
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Bar 20 1st October 1943 as Mrs. Stevens
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Inflation 1st January 1942 as Next Door Neighbor Who Begins Hoarding (uncredited)
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Our Wife 20th August 1941 as Minor Role (uncredited)
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The Women 1st September 1939 as Mrs. South (uncredited)
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Topper 16th July 1937 as Mrs. Goodrich (uncredited)
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Night Alarm 10th December 1934 as Mrs. Elizabeth Van Dusen
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She 20th June 1925 as Ayesha
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Percy 5th April 1925 as Lolita
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Fair Lady 19th March 1922 as Countess Margherita

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