Known For
Acting
Born
Feb 08, 1913
Died
Sep 13, 1973
Place of Birth
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Credits
39 titles
Betty Field
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Betty Field, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
Coogan's Bluff
Ellen Ringerman
The Outsider
How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life
Thelma
7 Women
Mrs. Florrie Pether
Going My Way
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Jenny Davies
Sam Benedict
Birdman of Alcatraz
Stella Johnson
Ben Casey
Dr. Kildare
Mrs. Harper
BUtterfield 8
Mrs. Fanny Thurber
Route 66
Hound-Dog Man
Cora McKinney
Naked City
Mrs. Brent
Peyton Place
Nellie Cross
Bus Stop
Grace
Picnic
Flo Owens
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Helen
Climax!
Callie Bellason
Letter to Loretta
Frances Palmer
General Electric Theater
Emily Marsden
Actors and Sin
Betty Field (Woman of Sin sequence) (archive footage)
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Lily Miller
Lux Video Theatre
Carol
Robert Montgomery Presents
Mrs. Howard
The Great Gatsby
Daisy Buchanan
The Philco Television Playhouse
Rose
The Southerner
Nona Tucker
Tomorrow, the World!
Leona Richards
The Great Moment
Elizabeth Morton
Flesh and Fantasy
Henrietta (segment 1)
Are Husbands Necessary?
Mary Elizabeth Cugat
Kings Row
Cassandra Tower
Blues in the Night
Kay Grant
The Shepherd of the Hills
Sammy Lane
Victory
Alma
Seventeen
Lola Pratt
Of Mice and Men
Mae
What a Life
Barbara Pearson