Betty Blythe
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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.
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Honky Tonk
Mrs. Wilson
Mi Bella Dama
Lady at Ball (uncredited)
The Women
Mrs. South (uncredited)
El cartero siempre llama dos veces
Customer (uncredited)
Fuimos los sacrificados
Officer's Wife (uncredited)
La vida secreta de Walter Mitty
Floor Manager (uncredited)
Carta de una enamorada
Frau Kohner (uncredited)
Undercurrent
Saleslady (uncredited)
Topper
Mrs. Goodrich (uncredited)
A Girl of the Limberlost
Mrs. Parker
Pilgrimage
Janet Prescot
Our Wife
Minor Role (uncredited)
Sis Hopkins
Mrs. Farnsworth
Crime Doctor
Mrs. Harrington
The Gorgeous Hussy
Mrs. Wainwright
Hollywood Story
Herself
Shed No Tears
Mrs. Peet (Uncredited)
Runaway Daughters
Party Guest (uncredited)
Aventura
Mrs. Buckley (uncredited)
Abbott y Costello en Hollywood
Mrs. Murdock (uncredited)
Back Street
Gossip (uncredited)
Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat
Mrs. Manning
Only Yesterday
Mrs. Vincent (Uncredited)
Lena Rivers
Mathilda Nichols
Rainbow on the River
Flower Buyer (uncredited)
Espionage
Train Passenger
Bar 20
Mrs. Stevens
Dawn on the Great Divide
Mrs. Elmira Corkle
Presenting Lily Mars
Dowager
Murder at Glen Athol
Ann Randel