Betty Fields

Not to be confused with Betty Field.

Betty Fields
Born13 September 1906 or 1910
Rochdale, Lancashire
Died16 January 1938 (aged 27 or 31)
OccupationActress
Years active1930-1936
Spouse(s)Corky McKinley (m. 1927; div. 1928)
Martin Corscheshire (m. 1929; div. 1938)

Betty Fields (born Betty Stansfield; 13 September 1906/1910 – 16 January 1938), born in Rochdale, Lancashire, was a British actress.[1] She was the sister of Gracie Fields.[2] In 1936 she starred in the lead of On Top of the World in a role originally intended for her sister.[3]

  1. ^ "Betty Fields profile at BFI". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 15 January 2009. Retrieved 15 November 2015.
  2. ^ Richards, Jeffrey (15 September 1997). Films and British National Identity: From Dickens to Dad's Army. Manchester University Press. pp. 266–. ISBN 9780719047435. Retrieved 15 November 2015.
  3. ^ Richards, Jeffrey (15 January 2010). The Age of the Dream Palace: Cinema and Society in 1930s Britain. I.B. Tauris. ISBN 9781848851221. Retrieved 15 November 2015.