Betty Field

BETTY FIELD d1973. American film actress. Of Mice and Men (1939) established her as a dramatic actress. She starred opposite John Wayne in the 1941 movie The Shepherd of the Hills. She played a supporting, yet significant role as Cassandra Tower in Kings Row (1942). A life member of The Actors Studio, she 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) / Birdman of Alcatraz (1962) / 7 Women (1966) and How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life (1968). Her final film role was in Coogan's Bluff with Clint Eastwood and Susan Clark in 1968