Betty Field

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name = Betty Field


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caption = Actress Betty Field (1956) from the trailer for the film "Bus Stop"
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birthplace = Boston, Massachusetts
deathdate = death date and age|1973|9|13|1913|2|8|mf=y
deathplace = Hyannis, Massachusetts
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spouse = Elmer Rice (1942-1956)
Edwin J. Lukas (1957-1967)
Raymond Olivere (1968-1973)
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Betty Field (February 8, 1913 [Her year of birth is often erroneously stated as 1918 [http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=22715&pt=%3Cb%3EBetty%3C/b%3E%20Field] .] in Boston, Massachusetts - September 13, 1973 in Hyannis, Massachusetts) was an American film and stage actress.

Field began her acting career on the London stage in Howard Lindsay's farce, "She Loves Me Not". Following its run she returned to the United States and appeared in several stage successes, before making her film debut in 1939. Her role as Mae, the only female character, in "Of Mice and Men" (1939) established her as a dramatic actress. She starred opposite John Wayne in the 1941 film "The Shepherd of the Hills". Field played supporting roles in films such as "Kings Row" (1942), in which she played a victim of incest, although that fact was not readily apparent due to the heavy censorship of the time.

Field preferred performing on Broadway in plays like Elmer Rice's "Dream Girl" and Jean Anouilh's "The Waltz of the Toreadors", but returned to Hollywood regularly, appearing in "Flesh and Fantasy" (1943), "The Southerner" (1945), "The Great Gatsby" (1949), "Picnic" (1955), "Bus Stop" (1956), "Peyton Place" (1957), "BUtterfield 8" (1960) and "Birdman of Alcatraz" (1962). Her final film role was in "Coogan's Bluff" in 1968.

Her first marriage, to playwright Elmer Rice, ended in divorce. The couple had three children. Field died from a cerebral hemorrhage in Hyannis, Massachusetts, aged 60.

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