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BAT Beauties 3rd Series No15 Betty Blythe 1893-1972
Betty Blythe was Born Elizabeth Blythe Slaughter. She was an American actress best known for her dramatic roles in exotic silent films.
Brunette, buxom matinee idol Betty Blythe capitalised on the 'roaring 20's' infatuation with exotic screen sirens to achieve a brief period of stardom. She was notoriously one of the first actresses to ever appear nude (or in various stages of undress) on screen.
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), 'Chu-Chin-Chow' (1923) and released by MGM in the US 1925.
Her first Sound Movie was 'Domestic Troubles' (1928) for Warner Brothers.
She appeared in a number of Sound Movies through the 1940's, but uncredited.
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'.
She was married to the movie director Paul Scardon from 1919 until his death in 1954.
Betty Blythe died of a heart attack in Woodland Hills, California in 1972, aged 78.
BAT Beauties 3rd Series No15 Betty Blythe 1893-1972
Betty Blythe was Born Elizabeth Blythe Slaughter. She was an American actress best known for her dramatic roles in exotic silent films.
Brunette, buxom matinee idol Betty Blythe capitalised on the 'roaring 20's' infatuation with exotic screen sirens to achieve a brief period of stardom. She was notoriously one of the first actresses to ever appear nude (or in various stages of undress) on screen.
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), 'Chu-Chin-Chow' (1923) and released by MGM in the US 1925.
Her first Sound Movie was 'Domestic Troubles' (1928) for Warner Brothers.
She appeared in a number of Sound Movies through the 1940's, but uncredited.
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'.
She was married to the movie director Paul Scardon from 1919 until his death in 1954.
Betty Blythe died of a heart attack in Woodland Hills, California in 1972, aged 78.