Betty Blythe
Acting
- Naissance:
- 1893-08-31
- Décès:
- 1972-04-07
- Lieu de naissance:
- Los Angeles, California, USA
Biographie
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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Filmographie
My Fair Lady
Runaway Daughters
Hollywood Story
Rebecca
Luxury Liner
Shed No Tears
Lettre d'une inconnue
Madonna of the Desert
Jiggs and Maggie in Society
La Vie secrète de Walter Mitty
Something in the Wind
Lame de fond
Joe Palooka, Champ
Le Facteur sonne toujours deux fois
The Undercover Woman
L'Aventure
Les Sacrifiés
Deux Nigauds à Hollywood
Docks of New York
A Fig Leaf for Eve
Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat
Mr. Muggs Steps Out
Bar 20
Spotlight Scandals
Crime Doctor
Sarong Girl
Girls in Chains
Lily Mars Vedette
Dawn on the Great Divide
Piano Mooner
House of Errors
Freckles Comes Home
Inflation
Tuxedo Junction
The Miracle Kid
Top Sergeant Mulligan
Franc Jeu
Our Wife
Puddin' Head
Sis Hopkins
Federal Fugitives
Misbehaving Husbands
Earl of Puddlestone
Femmes
Gangster's Boy
Delinquent Parents
Romance of the Limberlost
Hold That Kiss
Life in Sometown, U.S.A.
What Do You Think? (Number Two)
Le Couple invisible
Espionage
Rainbow on the River
L'enchanteresse
Yours for the Asking
Murder at Glen Athol
Western Courage
The Spanish Cape Mystery
Cheers of the Crowd
The Perfect Clue
I've Been Around
Night Alarm
A Girl of the Limberlost
Two Heads on a Pillow
The Scarlet Letter
Money Means Nothing
Badge of Honor
Ever Since Eve
Before Midnight
Une nuit seulement
Pilgrimage
Back Street
Tom Brown of Culver
Lena Rivers
Stars of Yesterday
Stolen Love
Sisters of Eve
Into No Man's Land
Glorious Betsy
Domestic Troubles
The Girl from Gay Paree
A Million Bid
Snowbound
She
Percy
Pour un collier de perles
In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter
The Breath of Scandal
Chu-Chin-Chow
The Spitfire
Southern Love
The Truth About Wives
How Women Love
His Wife's Husband
Fair Lady
Disraeli
Charge It
Mother o' Mine
The Queen of Sheba
Nomads of the North
Occasionally Yours
The Silver Horde
Burnt Wings
The Third Generation
The Undercurrent
Beating the Odds
Miss Ambition
The King of Diamonds
The Green God
A Game with Fate
The Business of Life
Over the Top
Slander