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Betty Field
Biography:
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Betty Field (February 8, 1913 – September 13, 1973) was an American film and stage actress. Through her father, she was a direct descendant of the Pilgrims John Alden and Priscilla Mullins.
Born in Boston, Massachusetts to George Field and Katharine Lynch, 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 sole 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... Read More
Movies:
Title | Release date |
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Coogan's Bluff as Ellen Ringerman | 1968-10-02 |
How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life as Thelma | 1968-01-17 |
7 Women as Mrs. Florrie Pether | 1965-12-11 |
Marilyn as Self ("Bus Stop") (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1963-04-18 |
Birdman of Alcatraz as Stella Johnson | 1962-07-04 |
BUtterfield 8 as Mrs. Fanny Thurber | 1960-11-04 |
Hound-Dog Man as Cora McKinney | 1959-11-11 |
Peyton Place as Nellie Cross | 1957-12-13 |
Bus Stop as Grace | 1956-08-31 |
Picnic as Flo Owens | 1955-11-18 |
Actors and Sin as Betty Field (Woman of Sin sequence) (archive footage) | 1952-06-18 |
The Great Gatsby as Daisy Buchanan | 1949-07-13 |
The Southerner as Nona Tucker | 1945-04-30 |
Tomorrow, the World! as Leona Richards | 1944-12-29 |
The Great Moment as Elizabeth Morton | 1944-07-18 |
Flesh and Fantasy as Henrietta (segment 1) | 1943-10-29 |
Are Husbands Necessary? as Mary Elizabeth Cugat | 1942-06-15 |
Kings Row as Cassandra Tower | 1942-02-02 |
Blues in the Night as Kay Grant | 1941-11-15 |
The Shepherd of the Hills as Sammy Lane | 1941-07-18 |
Victory as Alma | 1940-12-21 |
Seventeen as Lola Pratt | 1940-03-01 |
Of Mice and Men as Mae | 1939-12-24 |
What a Life as Barbara Pearson | 1939-10-05 |