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 h...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Coogan's Bluff
1968
as Ellen Ringerman
Coogan, an Arizona deputy sheriff goes to New York to pick up a prisoner. While escorting the prisoner to the airport, he escapes and Coogan heads int...
How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life
1968
as Thelma
Wealthy playboy David Sloane wrongly believes good girl Carol Corman is his best friend's mistress.
7 Women
1965
as Mrs. Florrie Pether
In a mission in China in 1935, a group of women are preyed on by Mongolian bandits, led by Warlord chief Tunga Khan.
Marilyn
1963
as Self ("Bus Stop") (archive footage) (uncredited)
This 1963 documentary, released less than a year after Marilyn Monroe's death, showcases the star in memorable scenes from her 20th Century Fox films,...
Birdman of Alcatraz
1962
as Stella Johnson
After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement. Driven nearly mad by loneliness and despair, Stro...
BUtterfield 8
1960
as Mrs. Fanny Thurber
Gloria Wandrous, a promiscuous fashion model, falls in love with Weston Liggett, the hard drinking son of a working class family who has married into ...
Hound-Dog Man
1959
as Cora McKinney
A rustic drama set in the early 20th century, Hound Dog Man is the simple story of a young man, Spud Kinney constantly in hot water for disobeying his...
Peyton Place
1957
as Nellie Cross
In the outwardly respectable New England community of Peyton Place, shopkeeper Constance McKenzie tries to make up for a past indiscretion -- which re...
Bus Stop
1956
as Grace
Cowboys Beauregard Decker and Virgil Blessing attend a rodeo in Phoenix, where Decker falls in love with beautiful cafe singer Cherie. He wants to tak...
Picnic
1955
as Flo Owens
Labor Day in a small Kansas farm town. Hal, a burly and resolute drifter, jumps off a dusty freight train car with the purpose of visiting Alan, a for...
Actors and Sin
1952
as Betty Field (Woman of Sin sequence) (archive footage)
Two-part story--the first is about a washed-up Broadway actor and his tough daughter, who is a bigger star than he is; the second is about a literary ...
The Great Gatsby
1949
as Daisy Buchanan
Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifetyle of his landlord, th...
The Southerner
1945
as Nona Tucker
Sam Tucker, a cotton picker, in search of a better future for his family, decides to grow his own cotton crop. In the first year, the Tuckers battle d...
Tomorrow, the World!
1944
as Leona Richards
German boy Emil comes to live with his American uncle who tries to teach the former Hitler Youth to reject Nazism.
The Great Moment
1944
as Elizabeth Morton
The biography of Dr. W.T. Morgan, a 19th century Boston dentist, during his quest to have anesthesia, in the form of ether, accepted by the public and...
Flesh and Fantasy
1943
as Henrietta (segment 1)
Anthology film of three tales of the supernatural. The first story is set at the Mardi Gras in New Orleans. The second involves a psychic who predicts...
Are Husbands Necessary?
1942
as Mary Elizabeth Cugat
George and Mary Elizabeth Cugat are about to celebrate their second wedding anniversary and dream of having a child. Although they live comfortably on...
Kings Row
1942
as Cassandra Tower
Five young adults in a small American town face the revelations of secrets that threaten to ruin their hopes and dreams.
Blues in the Night
1941
as Kay Grant
A struggling band find themselves attached to a fugitive and drawn into a series of old feuds and love affairs, as they try to stay together and find ...
The Shepherd of the Hills
1941
as Sammy Lane
Young Matt Matthews, an Ozark Mountains moonshiner, hates the father he has never seen, who apparently deserted Matt's mother and left her to die. His...
Victory
1940
as Alma
A hermit's idyllic life on an island is disturbed by the arrival of a bunch of cutthroats.
Seventeen
1940
as Lola Pratt
A high-school student in a small town becomes smitten with the sophisticated new girl who's just arrived from Chicago. Based on Booth Tarkington's sto...
Of Mice and Men
1939
as Mae
An intellectually disabled giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's ranch in depression era America.
What a Life
1939
as Barbara Pearson
Jackie Cooper stars in this first film in the wholesome "Henry Aldrich" series of teen comedies.