Betty Field

Betty Field

1913-02-08 Boston, Massachusetts, USA 24 Credits

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...

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Coogan's Bluff

Coogan's Bluff

1968

as Ellen Ringerman

6.4
Acting

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

How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life

1968

as Thelma

5.8
Acting

Wealthy playboy David Sloane wrongly believes good girl Carol Corman is his best friend's mistress.

7 Women

7 Women

1965

as Mrs. Florrie Pether

6.5
Acting

In a mission in China in 1935, a group of women are preyed on by Mongolian bandits, led by Warlord chief Tunga Khan.

Marilyn

Marilyn

1963

as Self ("Bus Stop") (archive footage) (uncredited)

6.0
Acting

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

Birdman of Alcatraz

1962

as Stella Johnson

7.5
Acting

After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement. Driven nearly mad by loneliness and despair, Stro...

BUtterfield 8

BUtterfield 8

1960

as Mrs. Fanny Thurber

6.3
Acting

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

Hound-Dog Man

1959

as Cora McKinney

4.4
Acting

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

Peyton Place

1957

as Nellie Cross

6.7
Acting

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

Bus Stop

1956

as Grace

6.1
Acting

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

Picnic

1955

as Flo Owens

6.3
Acting

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

Actors and Sin

1952

as Betty Field (Woman of Sin sequence) (archive footage)

5.2
Acting

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

The Great Gatsby

1949

as Daisy Buchanan

5.5
Acting

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

The Southerner

1945

as Nona Tucker

6.5
Acting

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!

Tomorrow, the World!

1944

as Leona Richards

7.9
Acting

German boy Emil comes to live with his American uncle who tries to teach the former Hitler Youth to reject Nazism.

The Great Moment

The Great Moment

1944

as Elizabeth Morton

5.8
Acting

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

Flesh and Fantasy

1943

as Henrietta (segment 1)

6.8
Acting

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?

Are Husbands Necessary?

1942

as Mary Elizabeth Cugat

Acting

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

Kings Row

1942

as Cassandra Tower

7.2
Acting

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

Blues in the Night

1941

as Kay Grant

6.3
Acting

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

The Shepherd of the Hills

1941

as Sammy Lane

6.6
Acting

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

Victory

1940

as Alma

Acting

A hermit's idyllic life on an island is disturbed by the arrival of a bunch of cutthroats.

Seventeen

Seventeen

1940

as Lola Pratt

Acting

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

Of Mice and Men

1939

as Mae

7.3
Acting

An intellectually disabled giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's ranch in depression era America.

What a Life

What a Life

1939

as Barbara Pearson

Acting

Jackie Cooper stars in this first film in the wholesome "Henry Aldrich" series of teen comedies.