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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.

My Fair Lady
as Lady at Ball (uncredited)

Runaway Daughters
as Party Guest (uncredited)

Hollywood Story
as Herself

Rebecca
as Mrs. Danvers

Luxury Liner
as Miss Fenmoor (uncredited)

Shed No Tears
as Mrs. Peet (Uncredited)

Letter from an Unknown Woman
as Frau Kohner (uncredited)

Madonna of the Desert
as Mrs. Brown

Jiggs and Maggie in Society
as Mrs. Vacuum

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
as Floor Manager (uncredited)

Something in the Wind
as Society Matron (uncredited)

Undercurrent
as Saleslady (uncredited)

Joe Palooka, Champ
as Mrs. Stafford

The Postman Always Rings Twice
as Customer (uncredited)

The Undercover Woman
as Cissy Van Horn

Adventure
as Mrs. Buckley (uncredited)

They Were Expendable
as Officer's Wife (uncredited)

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
as Mrs. Murdock (uncredited)

Docks of New York
as Mrs. Darcy

A Fig Leaf for Eve
as Lavinia Sardham

Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat
as Mrs. Manning

Mr. Muggs Steps Out

Bar 20
as Mrs. Stevens

Spotlight Scandals
as Mrs. Baker

Crime Doctor
as Mrs. Harrington

Sarong Girl
as Miss Ellsworth

Girls in Chains
as Mrs. Grey

Presenting Lily Mars
as Dowager

Dawn on the Great Divide
as Mrs. Elmira Corkle

Piano Mooner
as Society Woman

House of Errors
as Mrs. Martha Randall

Freckles Comes Home
as Minerva Potter

Inflation
as Next Door Neighbor Who Begins Hoarding (uncredited)

Tuxedo Junction
as Miss Hornblower

The Miracle Kid
as Madame Gloria

Top Sergeant Mulligan
as Mrs. Lewis

Honky Tonk
as Mrs. Wilson

Our Wife
as Minor Role (uncredited)

Puddin' Head
as Mrs. Bowser

Sis Hopkins
as Mrs. Farnsworth

Federal Fugitives
as Marcia

Misbehaving Husbands
as Effie Butler

Earl of Puddlestone
as Millicent Potter-Potter

The Women
as Mrs. South (uncredited)

Gangster's Boy
as Mrs. Davis

Delinquent Parents
as Mrs. Wharton

Romance of the Limberlost
as Mrs. Parker

Hold That Kiss
as Wedding Guest at Piermont's

Life in Sometown, U.S.A.
as Mrs. Himber (uncredited)

What Do You Think? (Number Two)

Topper
as Mrs. Goodrich (uncredited)

Espionage
as Train Passenger

Rainbow on the River
as Flower Buyer (uncredited)

The Gorgeous Hussy
as Mrs. Wainwright

Yours for the Asking
as May (uncredited)

Murder at Glen Athol
as Ann Randel

Western Courage
as Mrs. Hanley

The Spanish Cape Mystery
as Mrs. Godfrey

Cheers of the Crowd
as Lil Langdon Walton

The Perfect Clue
as Ursula Chesebrough