Field, Betty

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Field, Betty (1918–73), actress. A native New Yorker, she studied acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and worked in stock and in London before her Broadway debut in 1934 as a newspaper reporter in Miss Page Glory. Field appeared in a series of comedy hits in the 1930s but found richer characters in the 1940s, most memorably the imaginative Georgina in Dream Girl (1945), written for Field by her then‐husband Elmer Rice. Other notable Broadway performances were as Nora, the mystical Irish maid, in If I Were You (1938); the pert co‐ed Barbara in What a Life (1938); the amorous dipsomaniac Mildred Tynan in The Ladies of the Corridor (1953); the troubled society woman Deborah in A Touch of the Poet (1958); and the worried, secretive Mrs. Evans in the 1963 revival of Strange Interlude. Field's final Broadway appearance before her premature death was as the Nurse in Edward Albee's drama All Over (1971).

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