Betty Lynne

Betty Lynne (1911–2011) was a British film actress. During the late 1930s she played the female lead in a number of quota quickies, several of them for Warner Bros. at Teddington Studios. In 1939 she co-starred with Robert Newton in the thriller Dead Men are Dangerous.^[1]

Betty Lynne
Born	16 May 1911 Berlin, German Empire
Died	2 March 2011 (aged 99) Mézin, Lot-et-Garonne, France
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1937-1974 (film & TV)

Lynne was educated at Godwin Girls College in England, a convent in France, and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.^[2] She appeared on Broadway in The Animal Kingdom (1932) and Escape Me Never (1935).^[3]

Selected filmography

• Take It from Me (1937)
• Saturday Night Revue (1937)
• French Leave (1937)
• Patricia Gets Her Man (1937)
• It's Not Cricket (1937)
• Mr. Satan (1938)
• The Viper (1938)
• Wanted by Scotland Yard (1938)
• Glamour Girl (1938)
• Dead Men are Dangerous (1939)
• That's the Ticket (1940)
• Portrait from Life (1948)
• Once Upon a Dream (1949)
• The Bad Lord Byron (1949)

References

1. Goble p.15
2. "Betty Lynne Concentrates on Losing That German Accent". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. New York, Brooklyn. 22 May 1932. p. E 2. Retrieved 8 March 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
3. "Betty Lynne". Internet Broadway Database. The Broadway League. Archived from the original on 8 March 2020. Retrieved 8 March 2020.

Bibliography

• Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.

External links

• Betty Lynne at IMDb