- Born
- Died
- Birth nameElizabeth Coyet Threatt
- Nickname
- Betty
- American actress who made an impression in her only film. The daughter of an English father and a Cherokee mother, Threatt grew up in South Carolina. At 19, she went to New York and began a successful modeling career. In 1952, director Howard Hawks saw her photograph and cast her as the Blackfoot princess Teal Eye in his acclaimed frontier film The Big Sky (1952). Although she was a notable part of this successful film, Threatt left the picture business and never acted again.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
- SpousesAntoine Marie Fancois de Contandes(1956 - October 1963) (divorced, 2 children)Gene Williams(1953 - 1954) (divorced)Louis Cushed(1946 - 1950) (divorced, 1 child)
- ChildrenYves Threatt de ContadesJean Threatt de ContadesRona C True aka Rona Nichols
- ParentsWilliam Coyet ThreattBessie Pearl Furr
- "The Big Sky" was Elizabeth Threatt's only film. Threatt was an established model who was sought for the part because of her Native American ancestry. However, she learned to despise Hollywood, saying it was "full of fakes," and never acted again.
- Elizabeth DeContandes died in November 1993, alone in nursing home.
- She married shortly after getting her first modeling job, with her daughter coming along in 1947.
- Graduated from Concord High School (North Carolina) in 1943.
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