Films of the Golden Age
Issue Number 84
Spring 2016
“Optimists claim that working on both the stage and screen will make each career healthier. Pessimists say you can’t do both without hurting yourself. I’m an optimist!”
One of the finest stage actresses of her day, BETTY FIELD (1913-1973) became an award-winning Broadway star with her complex performance in DREAM GIRL (1945). Her complete dedication to the theater also explains why she never reached top stardom in Hollywood. More authentic than powerfully alluring, Betty managed to find the time to appear in a number of 1940’s and 1950’s film classics in both comely leads and dowdy supports. Roles in OF MICE AND MEN (1939), KINGS ROW (1942), THE GREAT GATSBY (1949), PICNIC (1955) and BUS STOP (1957), assured her a place in the Hollywood annals. She also made a strong impression with a number of complex character parts on TV drama.
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All Film Articles
- WILLIAM WELLMAN: A Daughter’s Prospective
- FREDDIE BARTHOLOMEW: Boy Wonder
- RICHARD CROMWELL: Pre-Code Heartthrob
- MARTHA RAYE : Send in the Clown
- TAB HUNTER: Sigh Guy
- STEVE COCHRAN: Life on the Edge
- WILLIAM HOPPER: Out of the Shadows
- MICHAEL CALLAN: Dancing Teen Idol
- KITTY CARLISLE: Straight from the Hart
- LEE PATRICK: I Never Wanted to Be a Star
- WILLIAM FRAWLEY: Diamond in the Gruff
- GERALDINE PAGE: Eccentricities of a ‘Method’ Actress
- GIA SCALA: More Than a Beautiful Face
- ANN ROBINSON: Just a Girl from Hollywood
- JAMES DUNN: Irish Charmer
- NEVA PATTERSON: Liberated Lady
- CHRISTOPHER RIORDAN: An Unorthodox Career
- PIER ANGELI: Little Garbo
- KATHLEEN HUGHES: Bad, Blonde and Beautiful
- GIG YOUNG: Master Farceur
- RICHARD TYLER: Problem Child, Successful Adult
- ARON KINCAID: Tall, Blond and Beachworthy
- MERCEDES McCAMBRIDGE: No Mercy
- JOHN HARRON: Fame and Misfortune
- ROBERT HARRON: Fame and Misfortune
- GIGI PERREAU: The Major Little Minor
- BETTY FIELD: Bicoastal Actress
- PEGGY WEBBER: Marvelous Maven of Radio Theatre
- BUDDY EBSEN: To Dad with Love
- BILLY GRAY: Little Rascal
- BARBARA BATES: All About Barbara
- CARLETON CARPENTER: ALL-AMERICAN INNOCENCE
- PAUL DOUGLAS: Brute Appeal
- JOANNA BARNES: Belying the Big Chill
- CYNTHIA PEPPER: The “Camelot” Blonde
- WILLIAM TALMAN: Film Menace
- PETER LAWFORD: Swinging on a Star
- FRANCHOT TONE: The “Millionaire” Star
- ANITA LOUISE: Depression Era Dreamgirl
- SCOTT BRADY: The Fighting Irishman
- KAYE BALLARD: The Songs and the Laughs Are On Me
- RUTH ROMAN: All Woman
- HOPE HOLIDAY: Wild and Wilder
- TOMMY COOK: Radio’s ‘Golden Boy’
- JACKIE JOSEPH: Puttin’ on the Ditz
- INGER STEVENS: Wounded Butterfly
- ALICE PEARCE: Beauty Inside