Betty Field
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- February 8, 1913, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Died
- September 13, 1973
- Movies
- 23
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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.
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 1968 | Coogan's Bluff | Ellen Ringerman |
| 1968 | How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life | Thelma |
| 1965 | 7 Women | Mrs. Florrie Pether |
| 1962 | Birdman of Alcatraz | Stella Johnson |
| 1960 | BUtterfield 8 | Mrs. Fanny Thurber |
| 1959 | Hound-Dog Man | Cora McKinney |
| 1957 | Peyton Place | Nellie Cross |
| 1956 | Bus Stop | Grace |
| 1955 | Picnic | Flo Owens |
| 1952 | Actors and Sin | Betty Field (Woman of Sin sequence) (archive footage) |
| 1949 | The Great Gatsby | Daisy Buchanan |
| 1945 | The Southerner | Nona Tucker |
| 1944 | Tomorrow, the World! | Leona Richards |
| 1944 | The Great Moment | Elizabeth Morton |
| 1943 | Flesh and Fantasy | Henrietta (segment 1) |
| 1942 | Are Husbands Necessary? | Mary Elizabeth Cugat |
| 1942 | Kings Row | Cassandra Tower |
| 1941 | Blues in the Night | Kay Grant |
| 1941 | The Shepherd of the Hills | Sammy Lane |
| 1940 | Victory | Alma |
| 1940 | Seventeen | Lola Pratt |
| 1939 | Of Mice and Men | Mae |
| 1939 | What a Life | Barbara Pearson |
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