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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 actor
My Fair Lady
Runaway Daughters
Hollywood Story
Rebecca
Letter from an Unknown Woman
Shed No Tears
Madonna of the Desert
Luxury Liner
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Something in the Wind
Jiggs and Maggie in Society
The Postman Always Rings Twice
The Undercover Woman
Undercurrent
Joe Palooka, Champ
Adventure
Docks of New York
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
They Were Expendable
Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat
A Fig Leaf for Eve
Crime Doctor
Girls in Chains
Sarong Girl
Mr. Muggs Steps Out
Spotlight Scandals
Bar 20
Presenting Lily Mars
Freckles Comes Home
House of Errors