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Betty Field is a Actor American born on 8 february 1913 at Boston (USA)

Betty Field

Betty Field
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Nationality USA
Birth 8 february 1913 at Boston (USA)
Death 13 september 1973 (at 60 years) at Hyannis (USA)

Betty Field (February 8, 1913 – September 13, 1973) was an American film and stage actress.

Biography

Her first marriage, to playwright Elmer Rice, ended in divorce. The couple had three children, John, Paul and Judith. John became a lawyer, but he died in a swimming accident at age 40. Her second marriage, to Edwin J. Lukas, lasted from 1957–1967. Her third marriage, to Raymond Olivere, lasted from 1968 until her death in 1973.




Death
Field died from a stroke in Hyannis, Massachusetts, aged 60.


Filmography



Year

Film

Role


1939

What a Life

Barbara Pearson


Of Mice and Men

Mae


1940

Seventeen

Lola Pratt


Victory

Alma


1941

The Shepherd of the Hills

Sammy Lane


Blues in the Night

Kay Grant


1942

Kings Row

Cassandra Tower


Are Husbands Necessary?

Mary Elizabeth Cugat


1943

Flesh and Fantasy

Henrietta


1944

The Great Moment

Elizabeth Morton


Tomorrow, the World!

Leona Richards


1945

The Southerner

Nona Tucker


1949

The Great Gatsby

Daisy Buchanan


1955

Picnic

Flo Owens


1956

Bus Stop

Grace


1957

Peyton Place

Nellie Cross


1959

Hound-Dog Man

Cora McKinney


1960

BUtterfield 8

Fanny Thurber


1962

Birdman of Alcatraz

Stella Johnson


1966

7 Women

Florrie Pether


1968

How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life

Thelma


Coogan's Bluff

Ellen Ringerman

References


External links



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Judith Anderson (1948)

Best films

Picnic (1955)
(Actress)

Usually with

Hans Dreier
Hans Dreier
(6 films)
Don Siegel
Don Siegel
(3 films)
Edith Head
Edith Head
(4 films)
Ben Hecht
Ben Hecht
(1 films)
Victor Milner
Victor Milner
(3 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Betty Field (24 films)

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Actress

How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life, 1h42
Directed by Fielder Cook
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Dean Martin, Stella Stevens, Eli Wallach, Anne Jackson, Betty Field, Jack Albertson
Roles Thelma
Rating62% 3.146253.146253.146253.146253.14625
David Sloane is an attorney and a bachelor whose married pal Harry Hunter is having an affair. David decides to do something about it so Harry doesn't mess up his home life.
Coogan's Bluff, 1h33
Directed by Don Siegel
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Motocyclette, Road movies, Chase films
Actors Clint Eastwood, Lee J. Cobb, Susan Clark, Don Stroud, Betty Field, Tom Tully
Roles Ellen Ringerman
Rating63% 3.199053.199053.199053.199053.19905
Arizona deputy sheriff Walt Coogan is sent to New York City to extradite escaped killer James Ringerman. Detective Lieutenant McElroy informs him that Ringerman is recovering from an overdose of LSD, cannot be moved until the doctors release him, and that Coogan needs to get extradition papers from the New York State Supreme Court.
7 Women
7 Women (1966)
, 1h27
Directed by John Ford
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors Anne Bancroft, Margaret Leighton, Flora Robson, Sue Lyon, Mildred Dunnock, Betty Field
Roles Mrs. Florrie Pether
Rating66% 3.345943.345943.345943.345943.34594
In rural China, in 1935, all but one of the white residents of a remote Christian missionary post are women. Miss Agatha Andrews (Margaret Leighton) is the head of the mission, assisted by Miss Argent (Mildred Dunnock). Charles Pether (Eddie Albert) is a mission teacher; his peevish, middle-aged wife Florrie (Betty Field) is pregnant for the first time. Emma Clark (Sue Lyon) is the only young staff member.
Birdman of Alcatraz, 2h23
Directed by John Frankenheimer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical, Crime
Themes Prison films, Films about capital punishment, Se déroulant à Alcatraz
Actors Burt Lancaster, Karl Malden, Thelma Ritter, Neville Brand, Telly Savalas, Edmond O'Brien
Roles Stella Johnson
Rating77% 3.8964353.8964353.8964353.8964353.896435
Robert Stroud (Lancaster) is imprisoned as a young man for committing a murder in Alaska. He is shown as a rebellious inmate, fighting against a rigid prison system: on his way to jail by train he breaks open the window to allow the suffocating inmates to breathe. His rebellious attitude puts him in conflict with Harvey Shoemaker (Malden), the warden of Leavenworth Prison.
BUtterfield 8, 1h49
Directed by Daniel Mann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution
Actors Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey, Eddie Fisher, Dina Merrill, Mildred Dunnock, Betty Field
Roles Mrs. Fanny Thurber
Rating62% 3.1497553.1497553.1497553.1497553.149755
Gloria Wandrous (Elizabeth Taylor) wakes up in the apartment of wealthy executive Weston Liggett (Laurence Harvey) and finds that he has left her $250. Insulted, Gloria, whose dress is torn, takes Liggett's wife Emily's (Dina Merrill) mink coat to cover herself and scrawls "No Sale" in lipstick on the mirror. But she orders her telephone answering service, BUtterfield 8, to put Liggett through if he should call.
Hound-Dog Man, 1h27
Directed by Don Siegel
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Fabian Forte, Stuart Whitman, Carol Lynley, Arthur O'Connell, Betty Field, Royal Dano
Roles Cora McKinney
Rating54% 2.7228952.7228952.7228952.7228952.722895
In 1912 Clint McKinney and his younger brother Spud talk their father Aaron into letting them go on a hunting trip with their older friend, the womanising Blackie Scantling.
Peyton Place, 2h37
Directed by Mark Robson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about families, Pregnancy films, Films about sexuality, Children's films
Actors Lana Turner, Diane Varsi, Hope Lange, Lloyd Nolan, Lee Philips, John Arthur Kennedy
Roles Nellie Cross
Rating71% 3.596063.596063.596063.596063.59606
In the seemingly idyllic New England town of Peyton Place, drunkard Lucas Cross (Arthur Kennedy) stumbles out of his house as his son leaves town. Lucas's downtrodden wife, Nellie (Betty Field) goes to work as the housekeeper for Constance "Connie" MacKenzie (Lana Turner), a local dress shop owner. The daughters of the two families, Allison MacKenzie (Diane Varsi) and Selena Cross (Hope Lange) are best friends and are about to graduate high school.
Bus Stop
Bus Stop (1956)
, 1h36
Directed by Joshua Logan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Transport films, Films based on plays, Road movies, Children's films
Actors Marilyn Monroe, Don Murray, Arthur O'Connell, Betty Field, Eileen Heckart, Hope Lange
Roles Grace
Rating62% 3.1485853.1485853.1485853.1485853.148585
A naive, rambunctious, overly enthusiastic and socially inept cowboy, Beauregard Decker, and his friend and father-figure Virgil Blessing take the bus from Timber Hill, Montana to Phoenix, Arizona, to participate in a rodeo. Virgil has encouraged the 21-year-old virgin, Beau, to take an interest in "girls." Initially reluctant and frightened of the idea, Beau declares that he hopes to find an "angel" and will know her when he sees her. Making trouble everywhere they go, he continues his bad behavior in the Blue Dragon Café. There he imagines himself in love with the café's singer, Chérie, a talentless but ambitious performer from the Ozarks with aspirations of becoming a Hollywood star. Her rendition of "That Old Black Magic" entrances him and he forces her outside, despite the establishment's rules against it, kisses her and thinks that means they're engaged. Chérie is physically attracted to him but resists his plans to take her back to Montana. She has no intention of marrying him and tells him so, but he's too stubborn to listen.
Picnic
Picnic (1955)
, 1h55
Directed by Joshua Logan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films based on plays
Actors William Holden, Kim Novak, Betty Field, Rosalind Russell, Susan Strasberg, Cliff Robertson
Roles Flo Owens
Rating69% 3.496323.496323.496323.496323.49632
Hal Carter (William Holden) is a former college football star, adrift and unemployed after army service and a failed Hollywood acting career. On Labor Day (September 5, 1955), he arrives by freight train in a Kansas town to visit his fraternity friend, Alan Benson (Cliff Robertson), the son of a wealthy grain elevator owner, Mr. Benson (Raymond Bailey). Working for his breakfast by doing chores in the backyard of kindly Mrs. Potts (Verna Felton), Hal presents to Bomber (Nick Adams), Madge Owens (Kim Novak), her sister Millie (Susan Strasberg), and her mother (Betty Field). The later is hoping Madge will marry Alan, which would thus raise both Madge and herself into the town's highest, respectable social circles. Alan wants to marry Madge, but his father thinks she is beneath him. Madge, even when being Alan fiancé, doesn't really loves Alan and is weary of being liked only because she is pretty.
Actors and Sin, 1h22
Directed by Lee Garmes, Ben Hecht
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Edward G. Robinson, Eddie Albert, Dan O'Herlihy, Marsha Hunt, Peter Brocco, Jack Warner
Roles Betty Field (Woman of Sin sequence) (archive footage)
Rating53% 2.672742.672742.672742.672742.67274
The film lampoons the Hollywood motion picture industry and is separated into two sections: The first section of the film is Actor's Blood, a morality play about legitimate theater. The second section is Woman of Sin, a send-up of Hollywood greed.
The Great Gatsby, 1h31
Directed by Elliott Nugent, Lewis Allen
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality
Actors Alan Ladd, Betty Field, Macdonald Carey, Ruth Hussey, Barry Sullivan, Shelley Winters
Roles Daisy Buchanan
Rating64% 3.2379253.2379253.2379253.2379253.237925
Les relations d'un couple et d'un mystérieux mécène à Long Island....
The Southerner, 1h32
Directed by Jean Renoir, Robert Aldrich
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about the labor movement
Actors Zachary Scott, Betty Field, J. Carrol Naish, Beulah Bondi, Percy Kilbride, Estelle Taylor
Roles Nona Tucker
Rating70% 3.543993.543993.543993.543993.54399
Sam Tucker (Zachary Scott) is a cotton picker in Texas who decides to start his own farm. He and wife Nona (Betty Field), Granny (Beulah Bondi) and children Jot and Daisy set out with nothing but two mules and a bit of seed.
Tomorrow, the World!, 1h26
Directed by Leslie Fenton
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Political films, Films based on plays
Actors Betty Field, Fredric March, Agnes Moorehead, Skip Homeier, Tom Fadden
Roles Leona Richards
Rating65% 3.2971053.2971053.2971053.2971053.297105
When war breaks out in Germany, the parents of young Emil Buckner (Skip Homeier) send their son to live in the United States with his American uncle (March). Although the American family reaches out to the boy, trying to make him part of their lives, he has been heavily indoctrinated in Nazi propaganda from his years in the Hitler Youth.
The Great Moment
Directed by Preston Sturges
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy
Themes Medical-themed films
Actors Joel McCrea, Betty Field, Harry Carey, William Demarest, Louis Jean Heydt, Julius Tannen
Roles Elizabeth Morton
Rating61% 3.098033.098033.098033.098033.09803
The titles and credits open with a scene (in 1846) of a triumphant street procession and a jubilant crowd hailing William Morton (Joel McCrea) with signs such as "Pain is no more," followed by a long, written prologue pointing out, in part, that "before ether there was nothing." Next, an old Eben Frost (William Demarest) is seen heading through the snow to the farmhouse of Morton's aging widow Lizzie (Betty Field). On the way he stops at a pawn shop and redeems a medal once awarded to Morton inscribed: "To the benefactor of mankind."