Blythe Daley

Blyth Daly: Star of Stage, Screen and Radio Blyth Daly was born in London, England, on December 5, 1901 to acting legend Arnold Daly (1875-1927) and wife Mary Blythe (1884-1958) a respected actor who like her husband was an American working on the celebrated London stage at the time of their daughters birth. Returning to the United States and settling at Elm Point, Great Neck, Long Island, NY. Arnold Daly was a personal friend of George Bernard Shaw and introduced his works to the States by successfully adapting several of works for the Broadway Stage, earning both critical acclaim. Blyth was born at the dawn of a new age, Queen Victoria had just died and the world was in the process of great social change. The role of women was in flux, the chains that bound them in stereotypes were breaking. The emergence of "the new woman" as H.G. Wells so termed them, women freed to live their lives on their own terms and express themselves and their sexuality as they wished was becoming a realit