Betty Blue Bio
Betty Blue was an American actress, glamour and nude model. She was born on August 14, 1931, in West Memphis, Arkansas. Playboy named her its November 1956 Playmate at 25. Her appearance dates from the magazine's formative 1950s, when the Playmate format was still taking shape.
Blue had natural breasts, brown eyes and brown hair. Her measurements are 39-22-36.
Before her magazine work, Betty Blue had already spent time in the more theatrical end of midcentury glamour. She worked as a showgirl at the El Rancho Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, part of the resort culture that made dancers, chorus performers, and models increasingly visible figures in postwar entertainment. By the time Playboy photographed her, she had traded the stage for a steadier Los Angeles job as an office manager, giving her feature an appealing contrast between show-business experience and an everyday professional life.
Blue continued modeling beyond Playboy and appeared in several other men’s magazines, but her career also moved in front of motion-picture cameras. In 1960, she played Pocahontas in Not Tonight Henry, a nudie-cutie comedy built around historical fantasy and burlesque-style humor. The role suited the loose boundary that often existed in the period between glamour modeling, nightclub performance, and low-budget independent film.
More than a decade later, Blue surfaced again in a very different kind of production with a small role in Women in Revolt, the 1971 underground film associated with the Warhol scene. She also appeared in television commercials, giving her screen work a range that stretched from light exploitation comedy to experimental cinema and mainstream advertising.
Her private life was also tied to the adult-film business through her marriage to director and producer Harold Lime. They married in 1957, divorced in 1963, and remarried decades later in 1991. Blue’s surviving career record is not large, but it crosses an unusually broad slice of American popular entertainment: Las Vegas showrooms, men’s magazines, exploitation film, underground cinema, commercials, and the working world of Los Angeles television and film.
