List of the best Betty Field movies: The Southerner(1945), The Shepherd of the Hills(1941), Blues in the Night(1941), The Great Gatsby(1949), Tomorrow the World(1945), The Great Moment(1944), Of Mice and Men(1939), Birdman of Alcatraz(1962), Kings Row(1942), Bus Stop(1956), Picnic(1955), Flesh and Fantasy(1943) ... ...
Drama
USA
1945
91 Minutes
Nona Tucker
Zachary Scott Betty Field Beulah Bondi J. Carrol Naish Norman Lloyd Jay Gilpin Estelle Taylor Percy Kilbride Blanche Yurka
farmer wife grandmother emotional spirited moving texas farm farming aspirations poverty family quest love sacrifice underdog 1940s
The life of the poor Tucker family, that worked as cotton pluggers and decided to get their own ground, but nature is against them.
Adventure
USA
1941
98 Minutes
Sammy Lane
John Wayne Betty Field Harry Carey James Barton Beulah Bondi Samuel S. Hinds Marjorie Main Ward Bond Marc Lawrence John Qualen Fuzzy Knight
stranger moonshiner daughter son uncle aunt bleak melodramatic fascinating ozark mountains small town forest cabin family helping others rural life superstition suicide father/son relationship revenge
A mysterious but pleasant stranger arrives in the Missouri hills and befriends a young backwoods girl, which doesn't sit well with her moonshiner fiancé who has vowed to find and kill his own father.
Musical
USA
1941
89 Minutes
Kay Grant
Priscilla Lane Betty Field Richard Whorf Lloyd Nolan Jack Carson Wallace Ford Howard da Silva Elia Kazan
convict jazz musician jazz singer femme fatale pianist dark quirky amusing st. louis new orleans new jersey roadhouse stage jazz ambition touring friendship scam crime rise
"Jigger' Lane forms a band that includes singer Ginger 'Character' Powell, wife of the trumpeter Leo Powell, and Nickie Haroyen and Peppi. All of them dedicate themselves to work as a unit ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1949
92 Minutes
Alan Ladd Betty Field Macdonald Carey Ruth Hussey Barry Sullivan Howard da Silva Shelley Winters Henry Hull Carole Mathews Ed Begley Elisha Cook Jr.
young man millionaire neighbor socialite beautiful woman wife sad brooding moving great neck, n.y. long island, n.y. mansion party poolside obsession love high society friendship relationships forbidden love
A Jazz Age bootlegger learns the hard way about the wages of sin.
Drama
USA
1945
86 Minutes
Fredric March Betty Field Skip Homeier Agnes Moorehead Joan Carroll Edit Angold
nephew uncle professor fiancée emotional gripping germany united states household family world war ii nazism judaism propaganda discovery growing up transformation 1940s
German boy Emil comes to live with his American uncle who tries to teach the former Hitler Youth to reject Nazism.
Biography
USA
1944
83 Minutes
Elizabeth Morton
Joel McCrea Betty Field Harry Carey William Demarest Louis Jean Heydt Julius Tannen Edwin Maxwell Porter Hall Franklin Pangborn Grady Sutton Harry Hayden
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 the medical and dental establishment.
Drama
USA
1939
107 Minutes
Mae
Burgess Meredith Lon Chaney Betty Field Charles Bickford Roman Bohnen Bob Steele Noah Beery Jr. Oscar O'Shea Granville Bates Leigh Whipper Helen Lynd
mentally challenged migrant worker rancher wife emotional gutsy tender ranch countryside soledad, calif. friendship aspirations farming sacrifice quest 1930s
A mentally disabled giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's ranch in depression era America.
Biography, Drama, Crime
USA
1962
148 Minutes
Stella Johnson
Burt Lancaster Karl Malden Thelma Ritter Betty Field Neville Brand Edmond O'Brien Hugh Marlowe Telly Savalas James Westerfield Chris Robinson
prisoner warden guard mother wife moving touching leavenworth prison alcatraz island missouri solitude prison new love redemption rise transformation 1960s
A surly convicted murderer held in permanent isolation redeems himself when he becomes a renowned bird expert.
Drama
USA
1942
127 Minutes
Cassandra "Cassie" Tower
Ann Sheridan Ronald Reagan Bob Cummings Betty Field Claude Rains Judith Anderson Nancy Coleman Kaaren Verne Maria Ouspenskaya Henry Davenport Ernest Cossart
doctor daughter orphan wife father melodramatic small town hospital family home railyard family dysfunction forbidden love mental illness accident class distinctions depression love growing up 1890s
The dark side and hypocrisy of provincial American life is seen through the eyes of five children as they grow to adulthood at the turn of the century.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1956
96 Minutes
Grace
Marilyn Monroe Don Murray Arthur O'Connell Betty Field Eileen Heckart Robert Bray Hope Lange Hans Conried Casey Adams Henry Slate Terry Kelman
singer cowboy friend waitress emotional engaging phoenix café nightclub rodeo bus infatuation ambition unrequited love love transformation pursuit 1950s
A naive but stubborn cowboy falls in love with a saloon singer and tries to take her away against her will to get married and live on his ranch in Montana.
Drama
1955
115 Minutes
Flo Owens
William Holden Kim Novak Rosalind Russell Betty Field Susan Strasberg Cliff Robertson Arthur O'Connell Verna Felton Reta Shaw Nick Adams Elizabeth Wilson
drifter girlfriend businessman schoolteacher police officer sister amusing emotional melodramatic small town kansas field factory mansion street sex dating friendship small-town life regret
A handsome drifter (William Holden) provokes explosive emotions in citizens (Kim Novak, Rosalind Russell) of a small Kansas town at a Labor Day festival. Based on William Inge's play.
Fantasy
USA
1943
93 Minutes
Henrietta
Charles Boyer Barbara Stanwyck Edward G. Robinson Robert Benchley Betty Field Bob Cummings Thomas Mitchell
gentleman seamstress law student psychic lawyer circus performer chilling melodramatic club party circus new orleans ocean liner london dreams fate murder beauty deception supernatural
An anthology of three loosely connected occult tales, with ironic and romantic twists.
Comedy
USA
1968
102 Minutes
Thelma
Dean Martin Stella Stevens Eli Wallach Anne Jackson Betty Field Jack Albertson Katharine Bard Woodrow Parfrey Alan Oppenheimer Shelley Morrison George Furth
womanizer wife mistress secretary lighthearted amusing playful new york city romance adultery friendship deception love pursuit 1960s
When a carefree bachelor tries to get his best friend to drop his mistress and return to his wife, he finds himself with romantic problems as well.
Drama
USA
1960
109 Minutes
Mrs. Fanny Thurber
Elizabeth Taylor Laurence Harvey Eddie Fisher Dina Merrill Mildred Dunnock Betty Field Jeffrey Lynn Kay Medford Susan Oliver George Voskovec Virginia Downing
call girl married man co-worker friend family member wife brooding emotional intense new york city hotel bar restaurant car bedroom prostitution affair money tragedy romance
A beautiful New York model and socialite moonlights as a call-girl, but all things change when she falls for a married man and the consequences are tragic.
Musical
1959
87 Minutes
Fabian Carol Lynley Stuart Whitman Arthur O'Connell Dodie Stevens Betty Field Royal Dano Margo Moore Claude Akins Edgar Buchanan
A farm boy and his dog go hunting with his teenage brother (Fabian) and an older friend (Stuart Whitman) in 1912.
Drama
USA
1957
157 Minutes
Nellie Cross
Lana Turner Hope Lange Arthur Kennedy Lloyd Nolan Lee Philips Terry Moore Russ Tamblyn Betty Field David Nelson Mildred Dunnock Diane Varsi
stranger widow drunk daughter friend doctor melodramatic passionate intense new england small town forest lake courtroom mother/daughter relationship small-town life sex rape friendship trials
A peaceful New England town hides secrets and scandals.