All Night Long 1961  N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Basil Dearden
Cast: Patrick McGoohan, Marti Stevens, Betsy Blair, Keith Michell, Richard Attenborough, Paul Harris, Bernard Beaden, Maria Velasco, Harry Towb
Good jazz is what makes this film work. Based on Shakespeare's "Othello," Othello is a bandleader and Desdemona is the singer while Iago rounds out the ensemble as the band's drummer.
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Another Part of the Forest 1948 N/R, 106 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Michael Gordon
Cast: Fredric March, Dan Duryea, Edmond O'Brien, Ann Blyth, Florence Eldridge, John Dall, Dona Drake, Betsy Blair, Fritz Leiber, Whit Bissell
Marcus Hubbard (Fredric March) is a vicious man living in the Deep South who profited from the Civil War. He is also a mean father and husband. Then one son, Ben (Edmond O'Brien), finds out that Marcus was responsible for the death of Confederate troops and threatens to blow the whistle. This film begins 20 years before the Lillian Hellman book and movie, "The Little Foxes," which carried on the story of the Hubbard family.
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Betrayed 1988   R, 128 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Costa-Gavras
Cast: Debra Winger, Tom Berenger, John Heard, John Mahoney, Betsy Blair, Ted Levine, Jeffrey DeMunn, Albert Hall, David Clennon, Richard Libertini
An FBI agent (Debra Winger), posing as an itinerant farm worker to expose a right-wing organization's involvement in the killing of a television personality, falls in love with a farmer and discovers that he's a racist murderer.
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A Delicate Balance 1973 PG, 132 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Tony Richardson
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Paul Scofield, Lee Remick, Kate Reid, Joseph Cotten, Betsy Blair
In this film adaptation of Edward Albee's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, a Connecticut family, Agnes and Tobias (Katherine Hepburn and Paul Scofield) find their lives are affected by one evening of unexpected guests arriving at their home. First, Agnes' alcoholic sister Claire (Kate Reid) stops to visit, and then their daughter Julia (Lee Remick) appears on the scene announcing that she is going through her fourth divorce. As if that was not enough, their best friends Harry and Edna (Joseph Cotten and Betsy Blair) come to visit, and it appears that they plan to stay forever. What has happened to their life of quiet domesticity?
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Il Grido 1957 N/R, 115 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: The Outcry
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Cast: Steve Cochran, Alida Valli, Betsy Blair, Dorian Gray, Lynn Shaw, Gabriella Pallotta, Mirna Girardi, Guerrino Campanili, Gaetano Matteucci, Pina Boldrini
Disillusioned by life, laborer Aldo (Steve Cochran) disintegrates emotionally and drifts across Northern Italy with his daughter in tow. Eventually he returns to his ex-wife who, in turn, found a new life apart from Aldo, leaving Aldo still alienated from those he loves.
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Kind Lady 1951  N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: John Sturges
Cast: Ethel Barrymore, Maurice Evans, Angela Lansbury, Keenan Wynn, Betsy Blair, John Williams, Doris Lloyd, John O'Malley, Henri Letondal
Mary Herries is a kind old woman. And rich. Along comes painter Henry Elcott, who enters her home after demonstrating his painting skills. But, of course, he is after her money. A good update of the 1936 film, partly because the author of the original play, Edward Chodorov, coscripted this tale.
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Marty 1955  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Delbert Mann
Cast: Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair, Esther Minciotti, Augusta Ciolli, Joe Mantell, Jerry Paris, Karen Steele, Minerva Urecal, Robin Morse, Walter Kelley, James Bell, Charles Cane, John Dennis, Frank Sutton, Silvio Minciotti
Two lonely and unattractive people–34-year-old bachelor Marty (Ernest Borgnine), who lives with his mother (Esther Minciotti), and schoolteacher Clara (Betsy Blair)–meet at the Stardust Ballroom in Manhattan and are attracted to each other. But, when Marty's mother and friends criticize Clara, Marty does not call her–until he realizes that a loving relationship with Clara is more important to him than the relationships he shares with his friends and mother. The film received Academy Awards for Best Picture, Actor (Borgnine), Director, and Screenplay. Betsy Blair and Joe Mantell were nominated for Best Supporting Actress and Supporting Actor.
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Mystery Street 1950 N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: John Sturges
Cast: Ricardo Montalban, Sally Forrest, Bruce Bennett, Elsa Lanchester, Marshall Thompson, Jan Sterling, Edmon Ryan, Betsy Blair, Wally Maher, Willard Waterman
Boston detective Lieutenant Peter Morales (Ricardo Montalban) and forensic expert Dr. McAdoo (Bruce Bennett) work tirelessly to track down a killer by using skeletal remains of the victim as their clues to reconstructing the crime.
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| 1. All Night Long (1961)
2. Another Part of the Forest (1948)
3. Betrayed (1988)
4. A Delicate Balance (1973)
5. Il Grido (1957)
aka: The Outcry
6. Kind Lady (1951)
7. Marty (1955)
8. Mystery Street (1950)
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