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Betty Blythe (born Elizabeth Blythe Slaughter, September 1, 1893 β 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.
Filmography
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Movies 102
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My Fair Lady (1964)
Runaway Daughters (1956)
Hollywood Story (1951)
Luxury Liner (1948)
Shed No Tears (1948)
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
Madonna of the Desert (1948)
Jiggs and Maggie in Society (1947)
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)
Something in the Wind (1947)
Undercurrent (1946)
Joe Palooka, Champ (1946)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
The Undercover Woman (1946)
Adventure (1945)
They Were Expendable (1945)
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood (1945)
Docks of New York (1945)
A Fig Leaf for Eve (1944)
Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat (1944)
Where Are Your Children? (1943)
Bar 20 (1943)
Spotlight Scandals (1943)
Farmer for a Day (1943)
Crime Doctor (1943)
Sarong Girl (1943)
Girls in Chains (1943)
Dawn on the Great Divide (1942)
Piano Mooner (1942)
Kiss and Wake Up (1942)
House of Errors (1942)
Freckles Comes Home (1942)
Inflation (1942)
Tuxedo Junction (1941)
The Miracle Kid (1941)
Top Sergeant Mulligan (1941)
Honky Tonk (1941)
Our Wife (1941)
Puddin' Head (1941)
Sis Hopkins (1941)
Federal Fugitives (1941)
Misbehaving Husbands (1940)
Earl of Puddlestone (1940)
The Women (1939)
Gangster's Boy (1938)
Delinquent Parents (1938)
Romance of the Limberlost (1938)
Hold That Kiss (1938)
Life in Sometown, U.S.A. (1938)
Topper (1937)
Espionage (1937)
Rainbow on the River (1936)
The Gorgeous Hussy (1936)
Murder at Glen Athol (1936)
Western Courage (1935)
The Spanish Cape Mystery (1935)
Cheers of the Crowd (1935)
The Perfect Clue (1935)
Night Alarm (1934)
A Girl of the Limberlost (1934)
Two Heads on a Pillow (1934)
The Scarlet Letter (1934)
Money Means Nothing (1934)
Badge of Honor (1934)
Ever Since Eve (1934)
Before Midnight (1933)
Only Yesterday (1933)
Pilgrimage (1933)
Back Street (1932)
Tom Brown of Culver (1932)
Lena Rivers (1932)
Stolen Love (1928)
Sisters of Eve (1928)
Glorious Betsy (1928)
A Million Bid (1927)
Snowbound (1927)
She (1925)
Percy (1925)
Folly of Vanity (1924)
In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter (1924)
Southern Love (1924)
The Truth About Wives (1923)
How Women Love (1922)
Fair Lady (1922)
Charge It (1921)
The Queen of Sheba (1921)
Nomads of the North (1920)
The Silver Horde (1920)
The Undercurrent (1919)
Beating the Odds (1919)
Over the Top (1918)
Slander (1916)
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Known ForActing
GenderFemale
Birthday1893-08-31
Deathday1972-04-07 (78 years old)
Birth PlaceLos Angeles, California, USA
RelationshipsPaul Scardon (1919-01-01 - 1954-01-01)
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsElizabeth Blythe Slaughter
Awardsstar on Hollywood Walk of Fame
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