Betty Blythe

Betty Blythe (1 September 1893 – 7 April 1972), born Elizabeth Blythe Slaughter in city-state|Los Angeles|California, was an American silent-screen star who became a supporting actress during the talkies. Blythe was married to actor and film director Paul Scardon.

Career

Blythe began her stage work in such theatrical pieces as "So Long Letty" and "The Peacock Princess". 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) and "She" (1925).

Filmography

* "My Fair Lady"
* "The Lonesome Trail"
* "Hollywood Story"
* "The Barkleys of Broadway"
* "Madonna of the Desert
* "Letter from an Unknown Woman"
* "Jiggs and Maggie in Society"
* "Luxury Liner"
* "Song of Love
* "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"
* "The Hoodlum Saint"
* "The Postman Always Rings Twice"
* "The Undercover Woman"
* "The Kid from Brooklyn"
* "Undercurrent"
* "Joe Palooka, Champ"
* "Her Highness and the Bellboy"
* "Adventure"
* "They Were Expendable"
* "The Docks of New York"
* "The Chinese Cat"
* "Bar-20"
* "Sarong Girl"
* "Where Are Your Children?"
* "Girls in Chains"
* "Mr. Muggs Steps Out"
* "Spotlight Scandals"
* "The Miracle Kid"
* "House of Errors"
* "Yokel Boy"
* "Freckles Comes Home"
* "Dawn on the Great Divide"
* "Sis Hopkins"
* "Top Sergeant Mulligan"
* "Misbehaving Husbands"
* "Federal Fugitives"
* "Tuxedo Junction"
* "Honky Tonk"
* "Earl of Puddlestone"
* "The Women"
* "Gangster's Boy"
* "Delinquent Parents"
* "Man-Proof"
* "Romance of the Limberlost"
* "Espionage"
* "Conquest"
* "Topper"
* "Cheers of the Crowd"
* "Yours for the Asking"
* "The Gorgeous Hussy"
* "Murder at Glen Athol"
* "Western Courage"
* "I've Been Around"
* "The Spanish Cape Mystery"
* "Fighting Lady"
* "The Perfect Clue"
* "Night Alarm"
* "Money Means Nothing"
* "The Scarlet Letter"
* "Badge of Honor"
* "Two Heads on a Pillow"
* "A Girl of the Limberlost"
* "Before Midnight"
* "Ever Since Eve"
* "Pilgrimage"
* "Only Yesterday"
* "Lena Rivers"
* "Tom Brown of Culver"
* "It Happened in New Orleans"
* "Stolen Love"
* "Domestic Troubles"
* "Sisters of Eve"
* "Into No Man's Land"
* "Glorious Betsy"
* "Million Bid"
* "Eager Lips"
* "Girl From Gay Peree"
* "Snowbound"
* "Percy"
* "She"
* "Chu Chin Chow"
* "Le Puits De Jacob"
* "Speed"
* "The Spitfire"
* "Breath of a Scandal"
* "A Woman's Secret"
* "Folly of Vanity"
* "The Recoil"
* "In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter"
* "The Darling of the Rich"
* "Fair Lady"
* "His Wife's Husband"
* "How Women Love"
* "Just Outside the Door"
* "Mother O' Mine"
* "Charge It"
* "The Queen of Sheba"
* "Nomads of the North"
* "Occasionally Yours"
* "The Man Who Won"
* "Dust of Desire"
* "All Man"
* "The King of Diamonds"

tageplay

* "Paging Danger" (1931)
* "House Afire" (1930)

Death

Betty Blythe died in Woodland Hills, CA in 1972, and is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, CA.

External links

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