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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 the Hills. Field played supporting roles in films such as Kings Row (1942), in which she played a victim of incest, although that fact was not readily apparent due to the heavy censorship of the time.
Field preferred performing on Broadway and appeared in Elmer Rice’s Dream Girl and Jean Anouilh’s The Waltz of the Toreadors, but returned to Hollywood regularly, appearing in Flesh and Fantasy (1943), The Southerner (1945), The Great Gatsby (1949), Picnic (1955), Bus Stop (1956), Peyton Place (1957), BUtterfield 8 (1960) and Birdman of Alcatraz (1962). Her final film role was in Coogan’s Bluff in 1968. She also appeared on television.
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Betty Field Biography / Wiki
| Name | Betty Field |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1913-02-08 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 60 |
| Deathday | 1973-09-13 |
Betty Field Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Blues in the Night | Kay Grant | 1941-11-15 | A struggling band find themselves attached to a fugitive and drawn into a series of old feuds and love affairs, as they try to stay together and find … |
| The Great Moment | Elizabeth Morton | 1944-07-18 | The biography of Dr. W.T. Morgan, a 19th century Boston dentist, during his quest to have anesthesia, in the form of ether, accepted by the public and… |
| The Shepherd of the Hills | Sammy Lane | 1941-07-18 | Young Matt Masters, an Ozark Mountains moonshiner, hates the father he has never seen, who apparently deserted Matt’s mother and left her to die. His … |
| The Southerner | Nona Tucker | 1945-04-30 | Sam Tucker, a cotton picker, in search of a better future for his family, decides to grow his own cotton crop. In the first year, the Tuckers battle d… |
| The Great Gatsby | Daisy Buchanan | 1949-07-13 | Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifetyle of his landlord, th… |
| Of Mice and Men | Mae | 1939-12-30 | An intellectually disabled giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy’s ranch in depression era America…. |
| Tomorrow, the World! | Leona Richards | 1944-12-29 | German boy Emil comes to live with his American uncle who tries to teach the former Hitler Youth to reject Nazism…. |
| Flesh and Fantasy | Henrietta (segment 1) | 1943-10-29 | Anthology film of three tales of the supernatural. The first story is set at the Mardi Gras in New Orleans. The second involves a psychic who predicts… |
| Seventeen | Lola Pratt | 1940-03-01 | A high-school student in a small town becomes smitten with the sophisticated new girl who’s just arrived from Chicago. Based on Booth Tarkington’s sto… |
| Are Husbands Necessary? | Mary Elizabeth Cugat | 1942-06-15 | George and Mary Elizabeth Cugat are about to celebrate their second wedding anniversary and dream of having a child. Although they live comfortably on… |
| What a Life | Barbara Pearson | 1939-10-05 | Jackie Cooper stars in this first film in the wholesome “Henry Aldrich” series of teen comedies…. |
| Victory | Alma | 1940-12-21 | A hermit’s idyllic life on an island is disturbed by the arrival of a bunch of cutthroats…. |
| Hound-Dog Man | Cora McKinney | 1959-11-11 | A rustic drama set in the early 20th century, Hound Dog Man is the simple story of a young man, Spud Kinney constantly in hot water for disobeying his… |
| Bus Stop | Grace | 1956-08-31 | Cowboys Beauregard Decker and Virgil Blessing attend a rodeo in Phoenix, where Decker falls in love with beautiful cafe singer Cherie. He wants to tak… |
| Picnic | Flo Owens | 1956-02-11 | Labor Day in a small Kansas farm town. Hal, a burly and resolute drifter, jumps off a dusty freight train car with the purpose of visiting Alan, a for… |
| Kings Row | Cassandra Tower | 1942-02-02 | Five young adults in a small American town face the revelations of secrets that threaten to ruin their hopes and dreams…. |
| Birdman of Alcatraz | Stella Johnson | 1962-07-04 | After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement. Driven nearly mad by loneliness and despair, Stro… |
| How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life | Thelma | 1968-01-17 | Wealthy playboy David Sloane wrongly believes good girl Carol Corman is his best friend’s mistress…. |
| BUtterfield 8 | Mrs. Fanny Thurber | 1960-11-04 | The story about Gloria Wandrous, a promiscuous fashion model, who falls in love with Weston Liggett, the hard drinking son of a working class family w… |
| Coogan’s Bluff | Ellen Ringerman | 1968-10-02 | Coogan, an Arizona deputy sheriff goes to New York to pick up a prisoner. While escorting the prisoner to the airport, he escapes and Coogan heads int… |
| 7 Women | Mrs. Florrie Pether | 1966-01-05 | In a mission in China in 1935, a group of women are preyed on by Mongolian bandits, led by Warlord chief Tunga Khan…. |
| Marilyn | 1963-04-18 | This 1963 documentary, released less than a year after Marilyn Monroe’s death, showcases the star in memorable scenes from her 20th Century Fox films,… | |
| Peyton Place | Nellie Cross | 1957-12-13 | In the outwardly respectable New England community of Peyton Place, shopkeeper Constance McKenzie tries to make up for a past indiscretion — which re… |
| Actors and Sin | Betty Field (Woman of Sin sequence) (archive footage) | 1952-06-18 | Two-part story–the first is about a washed-up Broadway actor and his tough daughter, who is a bigger star than he is; the second is about a literary … |
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