Betty Blythe

Betty Blythe (nascida Elizabeth Blythe Slaughter (1 de setembro de 1893 - 7 de abril de 1972) foi uma atriz americana mais conhecida por seus papéis dramáticos em filmes mudos exóticos como The Queen of Sheba (1921). Ela apareceu em 63 filmes mudos e 56 sonoros ao longo de sua carreira.

Betty Blythe
Betty Blythe Blythe em 1922
Nome completo	Elizabeth Blythe Slaughter
Nascimento	setembro 1, 1893(1893-09-01) Los Angeles, California
Morte	abril 7, 1972(1972-04-07) (aged 78) Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Ocupação	Atriz

Biografia

Ela nasceu Elizabeth Blythe Slaughter em Los Angeles, onde frequentou a Westlake School for Girls e a University of Southern California. Betty já havia encurtado seu nome para Betty Blythe quando ela e três outras mulheres posaram para uma sessão de fotos da mais nova moda feminina de natação, um maiô. Antes disso, esperava-se que as mulheres usassem meias com vestidos cheios ou saias na água.

Carreira

Blythe começou seu trabalho de palco em peças teatrais como So Long Letty e The Peacock Princess. Ela trabalhou em vaudeville como a "California Nightingale" cantando canções como "Love Tales from Hoffman".

Em 1915, ela teve um papel não faturado em Bella Donna para Famous Players Film Company . Após seu primeiro papel na Vitagraph Studios no veículo de 1917, ela recebeu um papel de liderança no filme de 1918 do estúdio, A Game With Fate.

Betty Blythe em Queen of Sheba

Tão famosa por seus trajes reveladores quanto por suas habilidades dramáticas, ela se tornou uma estrela em filmes exóticos como A Rainha de Sabá (1921) (no qual ela não usava nada acima da cintura, exceto um colar de contas), Chu-Chin -Chow (feito em 1923; lançado pela MGM nos EUA em 1925) e She (1925). Ela também foi vista com boa vantagem em filmes menos reveladores como Nomads of the North (1920) com Lon Chaney e In Hollywood com Potash and Perlmutter (1924), produzido por Samuel Goldwyn . Senhora Misteriosa. Ela continuou a trabalhar como atriz de personagem. Um de seus últimos papéis foi um pequeno papel não creditado em uma cena de multidão em My Fair Lady, de 1964.

Vida pessoal

Blythe foi casada com o diretor de cinema Paul Scardon de 1919 até sua morte em 1954. Ela teria ganhado US$ 3.500.000 quando vendeu um pedaço de terra que agora faz parte da Sunset Strip.  Ela perdeu sua fortuna no crash da bolsa de 1929.  Ela morreu de ataque cardíaco em Woodland Hills, Califórnia, em 1972, aos 78 anos. Ela está enterrada no Forest Lawn Memorial Park em Glendale, Califórnia.

Prêmios e memoriais

Por suas contribuições para a indústria cinematográfica, Betty Blythe tem uma estrela de cinema na Calçada da Fama de Hollywood localizada em 1708 Vine Street.

Betty em 1921

Seu nome vive no Betty Blythe Vintage Tea Room em West Kensington, Londres, Inglaterra.

Filmografia

Filmes
Ano	Nome	Papel	Estúdio/Observações
1915	Bella Donna	Dançarina (Sem Créditos)	Famous Players Film Company
1917	His Own People	Lady Mary Thorne	Vitagraph Studios
1918	A Game With Fate	Elaine Huntington	Vitagraph
1918	A Mother's Sin	Lady Fitzpatrick	Vitagraph
1918	Over the Top	Madame Arnot	Vitagraph
1918	The Little Runaway	Eileen Murtagh	Vitagraph
1918	The Green God	Muriel Temple	Vitagraph
1918	The King of Diamonds	Lucille Bennett	Vitagraph
1918	Tangled Lives	Hilda Howland	Vitagraph
1918	The Business of Life	Elena Clydesdale	Vitagraph
1918	All Man	Belle Foliot	Vitagraph
1918	Hoarded Assets	Claire Dawson	Vitagraph
1918	Miss Ambition	Edith Webster	Vitagraph
1919	The Undercurrent	Mariska	Select Pictures
1919	Silent Strength	Ruth Madison	Vitagraph
1919	Beauty-Proof	Carol Thorpe	Vitagraph
1919	Beating the Odds	Hebe Norse	Vitagraph
1919	Fighting Destiny	Caryl Rundlege	Vitagraph
1919	The Man Who Won	Barbara Le Moyne	Vitagraph
1919	Dust of Desire	Corrinne Torrence	Vitagraph
1920	Occasionally Yours	Bunny Winston	L. J. Gasnier Productions
1920	The Third Generation	Helen Van Dusen	Brentwood Film Corporation
1920	The Silver Horde	Mildred Wayland	Eminent Authors Pictures, Inc.
1920	Burnt Wings	Helen	Universal Films
1920	Nomads of the North	Nanette Roland	James Oliver Curwood Productions Inc.
1921	The Truant Husband	Vera Delauney	Rockett Film Corp.
1921	Just Outside the Door	Gloria Wheaton	Weber Productions
1921	The Queen of Sheba	The Queen of Sheba	Fox Film
1921	Mother o' Mine	Fan Baxter	Thomas H. Ince Productions
1921	Charge It	Millie Garreth	Equity Pictures
1922	The Darling of the Rich	Cast member	B.B. Productions
1922	His Wife's Husband	Olympia Brewster	Pyramid Pictures
1922	How Women Love	Rosa Roma	B.B. Productions
1922	Fair Lady	Countess Margherita	Bennett Pictures Corp.
1923	Chu-Chin-Chow	Zahrat	MGM
1923	The Truth About Wives	Helen Frazer	B. B. Productions
1923	Sinner or Saint	Mademoiselle Iris	B. B. Productions
1923	The Darling of the Rich	Charmion Winship	B. B. Productions
1924	Southern Love	Dolores	Graham-Wilcox Productions
1924	The Breath of Scandal	Sybil Russell	B. P. Schulberg Productions
1924	The Spitfire	Jean Bronson	Murray W. Garsson Productions
1924	The Recoil	Norma Selbee	Goldwyn Pictures
1924	The Folly of Vanity	Mrs. Ridgeway	Fox Film
1924	In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter	Rita Sismondi	Goldwyn
1925	Speed	Mary Whipple	Banner Productions
1925	She	Ayesha	Reciprocity Films
1925	Percy	Lolita	Thomas H. Ince Productions
1926	Mother's Boy	Cast member
1926	Le Puits de Jacob	Cast member
1927	Snowbound	Julia Barry	Tiffany-Stahl Productions
1927	Eager Lips	Paula	Chadwick Pictures
1927	The Girl from Gay Paree	Mademoiselle Fanchon	Tiffany-Stahl Productions
1927	A Million Bid	Mrs. Gordon	Warner Bros.
1928	Domestic Troubles	Cast member
1928	Sisters of Eve	Mrs. Wenham Gardner	Trem Carr
1928	Glorious Betsy	Princess Fredericka	Warner Bros.
1928	Into No Man's Land	The Countess	Excellent Pictures Corp.
1928	The Mysterious Lady		MGM
1931	Stars of Yesterday	Archive footage	Vitaphone
1932	Tom Brown of Culver	Dolores Delight	Universal
1932	Lena Rivers	Mrs. Mathilda Nichols	Tiffany Productions
1932	Back Street	(unknown)	Universal
1933	Pilgrimage	Janet Prescot	Fox Film
1933	Only Yesterday	Mrs. Vincent	Universal
1934	Two Heads on a Pilow	Mrs. Walker	Liberty Pictures
1934	The Scarlet Letter	Innkeeper	Larry Darmour Productions
1934	A Girl of the Limberlost	Mrs. Parker, "The Bird Woman"	Monogram Pictures
1934	Money Means Nothing	Mrs. Ferris	Monogram Pictures
1934	Night Alarm	Elizabeth Van Dusen	Larry Darmour Productions
1934	Badge of Honor	Mrs. Van Alstyne	Mayfair Pictures
1934	Ever Since Eve	Mrs. Vandegrift	Fox Film
1934	I've Been Around	(unknown)	Universal Pictures
1935	Anna Karenina	(unknown)	MGM
1935	The Spanish Cape Mystery	Mrs. Godfrey	Liberty Pictures
1935	Cheers of the Crowd	Lil Langdon Walton	Monogram Pictures
1935	The Fighting Lady	Mrs. Hanford	Fanchon Royer Pictures
1935	The Perfect Clue	Ursula Chesebrough	Larry Darmour Productions
1935	Western Courage	Mrs. Hanley	Columbia Pictures Larry Darmour Productions
1936	It's Up to You	Martha	Raphael G. Wolff, Inc.
1936	Murder at Glen Athol	Ann Randel	Invincible Pictures
1936	Rainbow on the River	Flower buyer	Principal Productions, Inc.
1936	Yours for the Asking	Society woman	Paramount
1936	The Gorgeous Hussy	Mrs. Wainwright	MGM
1937	Conquest	Princess Mirska (uncredited)	MGM
1937	Espionage	Passenger	MGM
1937	Topper	Mrs. Goodrich (uncredited)
1938	Hold That Kiss	(unknown)	MGM
1938	Gangster's Boy	Mrs. Davis	Monogram Pictures
1938	Romance of the Limberlost	Mrs. Parker	Monogram Pictures
1938	Delinquent Parents	Mrs. Wharton	Progressive Pictures
1938	Man-Proof	Country club woman	MGM
1938	Little Tough Guys in Society	(unknown)	Universal Studios
1939	The Women	Mrs. South (uncredited)	MGM
1940	Earl of Puddlestone	Millicent Potter-Potter	Republic Pictures
1940	Misbehaving Husbands	Effie Butler	Producers Releasing Corporation
1941	Our Wife	(unknown)	Columbia Pictures
1941	Tuxedo Junction	Miss Hornblower	Republic Pictures
1941	Honky Tonk	Mrs. Wilson	MGM
1941	Federal Fugitives	Marcia	Producers Releasing Corporation
1941	Top Sergeant Mulligan	Mrs. Lewis	Monogram Productions
1941	The Miracle Kid	Madam Gloria	John T. Coyle Productions
1942	Two Yanks in Trinidad	(unkniown)	Columbia Pictures
1942	Dawn on the Great Divide	Mrs. Elmira Corkle	Monogram Productions
1942	Freckles Comes Home	Mrs. Potter	Monogram Productions
1942	House of Errors	Mrs. Martha Randall	Producers Releasing Corporation
1942	Yokel Boy	Reporter	Republic Pictures
1943	Presenting Lily Mars	Dowager	MGM
1943	Mr. Muggs Steps Out	Margaret Morgan	Monogram Pictures
1943	Sarong Girl	Miss Ellsworth	Monogram Productions
1943	Bar 20	Mrs. Stevens	Harry Sherman Productions
1943	Spotlight Scandals	Mrs. Baker	Banner Productions
1943	Girls in Chains	Mrs. Grey	Atlantis Picture Corporation
1944	The Chinese Cat	Mrs. Manning	Monogram Pictures
1944	Where Are Your Children?	Mrs. Cheston	Monogram Pictures
1945	Her Highness and the Bellboy	Diplomat's Wife (uncredited)	MGM
1945	Abbott and Costello in Hollywood	Mrs. Murdock	MGM
1945	Docks of New York	Mrs. Darcy	Monogram Pictures
1945	Love, Honor and Goodbye	wife	Republic Pictures
1945	They Were Expendable	Officer's Wife (uncredited)	MGM
1945	Adventure	Mrs. Buckley (uncredited)	MGM
1946	Undercurrent	Saleslady (uncredited)	MGM
1946	The Undercover Woman	Cissy Van Horn	Republic Pictures
1946	A Fig Leaf for Eve	Lavinia Sardham	Carey Westen Corp
1946	Joe Palooka, Champ	Mrs. Stafford	Monogram Pictures
1946	The Hoodlum Saint	(unknown)	MGM
1946	The Kid from Brooklyn	Mrs. LeMoyne's friend (uncredited)	Samuel Goldwyn Productions
1946	The Postman Always Rings Twice	Customer (uncredited)	MGM
1947	Jiggs and Maggie in Society	Mrs. Vacuum	Monogram Productions
1947	Song of Love	Lady with Opera Glasses (uncredited)	MGM
1947	The Secret Life of Walter Mitty	Floor Manager (uncredited)	Samuel Goldwyn Productions
1948	Cass Timberlane	Nurse (uncredited)	MGM
1948	Letter from an Unknown Woman	Frau Kohner (uncredited)	Republic Pictures
1948	Madonna of the Desert	Mrs. Brown	Republic Pictures
1948	Luxury Liner	Miss Fenmoor	MGM
1949	The Barkleys of Broadway	Guest in lobby	MGM
1949	Jiggs and Maggie in Jackpot Jitters	Mrs. Van Belden	Monogram Productions
1950	Jiggs and Maggie Out West	Society Woman (uncredited)	Monogram Productions
1951	Hollywood Story	Self	Universal Pictures
1955	The Lonesome Trail	Mrs. Wells	L & B Productions
1956	Lust for Life	Dowager (uncredited)	MGM
1957	The Helen Morgan Story	Party Guest (uncredited)	Warner Bros.
1964	My Fair Lady	Lady at Ball (uncredited)	Warner Bros.
Televisão
Ano	Nome	Papel	Aparições
1952	Racket Squad	Mrs. Burton	1 episode, CBS
1958	The Lineup	Mrs. DeSues	1 episode, CBS

Ligações externas

• Betty Blythe. no IMDb.
• Betty Blythe (em inglês) no Allmovie
• Betty Blythe at Virtual History