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- She appeared in the Los Angeles opening of the play, So Long, Letty in 1915, where she and three other actresses were selected to be costumed in the scandalous “un-skirted” bathing suits, displaying bare legs.
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Feb 12, 2024 · As I related in my new book, Blythe quipped she could wear all twenty-eight of her costumes at the same time and still not keep warm. Indeed, many were made of net and see-through fabrics adorned with strings of pearls. The images showing the most exposure were reportedly distributed only in Europe. Betty Blythe as the Queen of Sheba
Oct 10, 2016 · It was the Queen of Sheba’s costumes that raised the most comments, modelled by silent film star Betty Blythe, who had become famous as the first actress to appear nude on film. Although no print of the film survives apart from a very short grainy clip – it was reported that Blyth wore 28 different diaphanous outfits, and at one point ...
Apr 9, 1972 · One film led to another, and in 1921 she was starred in “The Queen of Sheba,” in which she appeared in a risqué costume for the twenties. Miss Blythe appeared also in “She,” “Chu Chin Chow,”...
Written and directed by J. Gordon Edwards, it starred Betty Blythe as the Queen and Fritz Leiber Sr. as King Solomon. The film is well known amongst silent film buffs for the risqué costumes worn by Blythe, as evidenced by several surviving stills taken during the production.
1916–1964. Spouse. Paul Scardon. . . ( m. 1919; died 1954) . Betty Blythe (born Elizabeth Blythe Slaughter; [1] September 1, 1893 – April 7, 1972) was an American actress best known for her dramatic roles in exotic silent films such as The Queen of Sheba (1921). She appeared in 63 silent films and 56 sound films over the course of her career.
Betty later recalled that she was given 28 costumes to wear, all of which would have fitted comfortably into a shoebox. Alas, only a few stills of the movie survive, a fate shared by most of her other silent films.
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The Queen of Sheba: Directed by J. Gordon Edwards. With Betty Blythe, Fritz Leiber, Claire de Lorez, George Siegmann. The story of the ill-fated romance between Solomon, king of Israel, and the Queen of Sheba.
