Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
2/8/1913
Place of Birth
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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) establi...
Known For
The Southerner
as Nona Tucker
BUtterfield 8
as Mrs. Fanny Thurber
Picnic
as Flo Owens
Kings Row
as Cassandra Tower
The Shepherd of the Hills
as Sammy Lane
Bus Stop
as Grace
The Great Gatsby
as Daisy Buchanan
Coogan's Bluff
as Ellen Ringerman
Victory
as Alma
Marilyn
as Self ("Bus Stop") (archive footage) (uncredited)
Birdman of Alcatraz
as Stella Johnson
7 Women
as Mrs. Florrie Pether
Seventeen
as Lola Pratt
How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life
as Thelma
Flesh and Fantasy
as Henrietta (segment 1)
Actors and Sin
as Betty Field (Woman of Sin sequence) (archive footage)
Are Husbands Necessary?
as Mary Elizabeth Cugat
Of Mice and Men
as Mae
What a Life
as Barbara Pearson
The Great Moment
as Elizabeth Morton