1893-08-31 ( 131 years old ) in Los Angeles, California, USA
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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.
Movies
My Fair Lady
1964-10-21
Runaway Daughters
1956-01-20
Hollywood Story
1951-06-01
Luxury Liner
1948-11-09
Shed No Tears
1948-06-09
Letter from an Unknown Woman
1948-04-28
Madonna of the Desert
1948-02-23
Jiggs and Maggie in Society
1947-12-12
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
1947-09-01
Something in the Wind
1947-07-21
Undercurrent
1946-11-11
Joe Palooka, Champ
1946-05-26
The Postman Always Rings Twice
1946-05-02
The Undercover Woman
1946-01-01
Adventure
1945-12-28
They Were Expendable
1945-12-07
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
1945-10-05
Docks of New York
1945-02-24
A Fig Leaf for Eve
1944-07-04
Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat
1944-05-20
Mr. Muggs Steps Out
1943-10-29
Bar 20
1943-10-01
Spotlight Scandals
1943-09-24
Crime Doctor
1943-06-22
Sarong Girl
1943-06-11
Girls in Chains
1943-05-17
Presenting Lily Mars
1943-04-29
Dawn on the Great Divide
1942-12-18
Piano Mooner
1942-12-11
House of Errors
1942-04-10
Freckles Comes Home
1942-01-02
Inflation
1942-01-01
Tuxedo Junction
1941-11-25
The Miracle Kid
1941-11-14
Top Sergeant Mulligan
1941-10-16
Honky Tonk
1941-10-01
Our Wife
1941-08-20
Puddin' Head
1941-06-25
Sis Hopkins
1941-04-12
Federal Fugitives
1941-03-29
Misbehaving Husbands
1940-12-20
Earl of Puddlestone
1940-08-31
The Women
1939-09-01
Gangster's Boy
1938-11-16
Delinquent Parents
1938-07-15
Romance of the Limberlost
1938-06-16
Hold That Kiss
1938-05-13
Life in Sometown, U.S.A.
1938-02-26
What Do You Think? (Number Two)
1937-12-25
Topper
1937-07-16
Espionage
1937-02-26
Rainbow on the River
1936-12-18
The Gorgeous Hussy
1936-08-28
Yours for the Asking
1936-07-23
Murder at Glen Athol
1936-02-27
Western Courage
1935-10-29
The Spanish Cape Mystery
1935-10-09
Cheers of the Crowd
1935-08-05
The Perfect Clue
1935-03-13
I've Been Around
1935-03-05
Night Alarm
1934-12-10
A Girl of the Limberlost
1934-10-14
Two Heads on a Pillow
1934-10-02
The Scarlet Letter
1934-09-18
Money Means Nothing
1934-06-14
Badge of Honor
1934-04-01
Ever Since Eve
1934-03-25
Before Midnight
1933-11-18
Only Yesterday
1933-11-01
Pilgrimage
1933-07-12
Back Street
1932-08-04
Tom Brown of Culver
1932-06-30
Lena Rivers
1932-03-27
Stars of Yesterday
1931-12-31
Stolen Love
1928-12-02
Sisters of Eve
1928-09-01
Into No Man's Land
1928-06-15
Glorious Betsy
1928-04-25
Domestic Troubles
1928-03-28
The Girl from Gay Paree
1927-10-01
A Million Bid
1927-05-27
Snowbound
1927-05-01
She
1925-06-20
Percy
1925-04-05
Folly of Vanity
1925-01-26
In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter
1924-09-28
Chu-Chin-Chow
1924-05-15
Southern Love
1924-01-01
The Truth About Wives
1923-02-03
How Women Love
1922-10-15
Fair Lady
1922-03-19
Disraeli
1921-08-21
Charge It
1921-06-11
The Queen of Sheba
1921-04-10
Nomads of the North
1920-09-25
The Silver Horde
1920-05-09
Burnt Wings
1920-03-29
The Undercurrent
1919-11-16
Beating the Odds
1919-05-12
Over the Top
1918-03-31
Slander
1916-04-09
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