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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) established her as a dramatic actress.
She starred opposite John Wayne in the 1941 film The Shepherd of the Hills. Field played supporting roles in films such as Kings Row (1942), in which she played a victim of incest, although that fact was not readily apparent due to the heavy censorship of the time.
Field preferred performing on Broadway and appeared in Elmer Rice's Dream Girl and Jean Anouilh's The Waltz of the Toreadors, but returned to Hollywood regularly, appearing in Flesh and Fantasy (1943), The Southerner (1945), The Great Gatsby (1949), Picnic (1955), Bus Stop (1956), Peyton Place (1957), BUtterfield 8 (1960) and Birdman of Alcatraz (1962). Her final film role was in Coogan's Bluff in 1968. She also appeared on television.
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1968
as Ellen Ringerman
1968
1968
as Thelma
1965
as Mrs. Florrie Pether
1963
as Self ("Bus Stop") (archive footage) (uncredited)
1962
1962
as Jenny Davies
1962
1962
as Stella Johnson
1961
1961
as Mrs. Harper
1960
as Mrs. Fanny Thurber
1960
1959
as Cora McKinney
1958
as Mrs. Brent
1958
as Pauline Kater
1957
as Nellie Cross
1956
as Grace
1955
as Flo Owens
1955
as Helen
1954
as Callie Bellason
1953
as Frances Palmer
1953
as Emily Marsden
1952
as Betty Field (Woman of Sin sequence) (archive footage)
1951
as Lily Miller
1950
as Carol
1950
as Martha Shanks / Madeline
1950
as Mrs. Howard
1949
as Daisy Buchanan
1948
as Rose
1948
1945
as Nona Tucker
1944
as Leona Richards
1944
as Elizabeth Morton
1943
as Henrietta (segment 1)
1942
as Mary Elizabeth Cugat
1942
as Cassandra Tower
1941
as Kay Grant
1941
as Sammy Lane
1940
as Alma
1940
as Lola Pratt
1939
as Mae
1939
as Barbara Pearson