Betty Compson (March 19, 1897 – April 18, 1974) was an American actress and film producer. Most famous in silent films and early talkies, she is best known in her performances in The Docks of New York and The Barker, the latter earning a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
Betty Compson Biography / Wiki
| Name | Betty Compson |
| Also Know | Eleanor Luicime Compson |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Beaver, Utah, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1897-03-19 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 77 |
| Deathday | 1974-04-18 |
Betty Compson Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Inside the Lines | Jane Gershon | 1930-07-05 | During World War I, German spies will stop at nothing to spy on the allied war plans stored at Gibraltar…. |
| Street Girl | Frederika Joyzelle | 1929-08-21 | A homeless and destitute violinist joins a combo to bring it success, but has problems with her love life…. |
| Hubby’s Night Out | Wifey | 1917-02-20 | Neal hates to give up his evenings with “the boys.” even for his wife Betty. She gets a burglar scare and insists on his staying home. However, he wan… |
| The White Shadow | Nancy Brent / Georgina Brent | 1924-05-05 | The White Shadow is a British drama film directed by Graham Cutts based on the novel “Children of Chance” by Michael Morton. Alfred Hitchcock worked o… |
| Woman to Woman | Deloryce / Lola | 1929-11-01 | While on leave in WW I France an English officer and French cabaret star fall in love with one another and plan to marry. However, he is recalled to … |
| Paths to Paradise | Molly | 1925-06-28 | Two thieves discover a professional and personal relationship when individual heist plans are thrown together by circumstance…. |
| Escort Girl | Ruth Ashley | 1941-11-04 | A pair of nightclub owners run a string of escort bureaus where men pay for the “companionship” of young women. The district attorney sends an underco… |
| The Millionaire Kid | Gloria Neville | 1936-03-13 | The Millionaire Kid is young Tommy Neville whose wealthy parents, Thomas and Gloria Neville are preparing to fight it out in divorce court.Tommy runs … |
| Three Who Loved | Helga Larson Hanson | 1931-07-03 | A bank teller’s love life falls apart when he’s accused of embezzling…. |
| The Belle of Broadway | Marie Duval | 1926-08-14 | Madame Adele, once a great star of the Paris theatre, has fallen upon hard times. But she allows a young American performer, Marie Duval, to perform a… |
| Guilty or Not Guilty | Maizie | 1932-11-15 | Ruth Payne, innocent to begin with, is trying to extradite herself from the clutches of a gang-mob who obtained her release from prison on a falsified… |
| West of Singapore | Lou | 1933-01-31 | Tropical “heat” drives a man into the arms of a disreputable tramp, making things tough for the woman who really loves him…. |
| Midnight Mystery | Sally Wayne | 1930-06-01 | A fog-shrouded house provides the setting for this early talkies thriller…. |
| Woman to Woman | Louise Boucher / Deloryse | 1923-01-02 | David Compton leaves his expecting French girl-friend Louise Boucher, a dancer at the Moulin Rouge, for the war where he looses his memory. Building a… |
| The Green Temptation | Genelle / Coralyn / Joan Parker | 1922-04-01 | Genelle and Gaspard operate an itinerant Parisian theatre in which the greatest profits are realized by picking the pockets of the audience and robbin… |
| As Luck Would Have It | 1917-03-05 | Eddie Barry wants to keep wife Betty Compson happy, and she wants him to be a race car driver, so he hires a driver to impersonate himself on the trac… | |
| The Pony Express | Molly Jones | 1925-09-03 | The Pony Express is a silent 1925 Western film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film was directed by James … |
| The Lady Refuses | June | 1931-03-08 | A wealthy London nobleman hires a pretty but poor young girl to distract his playboy son from marrying a golddigger. Complications ensue when the girl… |
| The Little Minister | Lady Babbie | 1921-12-25 | In 1840 Scotland, a young lass named Babbie revels in the country life and frolics with the locals, simple weavers whose livelihood is threatened by i… |
| The Enemy Sex | Dodo Baxter | 1924-08-25 | A well-known sextet has been invited to a society gathering, and when one of them turns up missing, their manager asks Dodo to fill in. At the party, … |
| The Stranger | Peggy Bowlin | 1924-02-04 | “The Stranger,” an outcast who works in a saloon frequented by Peggy Bowlin, a poor girl suffering through hard times. She finds romance with Larry Da… |
| The Boudoir Diplomat | Helene | 1930-12-05 | A ladies’ man flirts with the wives of other governments’ officials…. |
| The Desert Bride | Diane Duval | 1928-03-26 | Captain Maurice de Florimont, a French Army intelligence officer, is captured by Arab nationalists while on an espionage mission. His sweetheart Diane… |
| Ramshackle House | Pen Broome | 1924-08-31 | Don Counsel, a New Yorker who is traveling through southern Florida, is being framed by Ernest Riever for a murder he did not commit. Riever is holdin… |
| At the End of the World | Cherry O’Day | 1921-08-14 | This dramatic adventure finds the flirtatious Cherry O’Day as the daughter of the Shanghai saloon keeper Terrence. She works in the dive and entertain… |
| To Have and to Hold | Lady Jocelyn Leigh | 1922-10-29 | King James I gives his consent to the marriage between Lord Carnal and Lady Jocelyn Leigh. Lady Jocelyn, however, does not want to wed the evil Lord C… |
| Kick In | Molly Brandon | 1922-12-17 | After serving time in Sing Sing, Chic Hewes wants to go straight, but when he refuses to be a stool pigeon for the cops, they hound him mercilessly. H… |
| The White Flower | Konia Markham | 1923-03-04 | Konia Markham, the daughter of an American father and a Hawaiian mother, is told by a sorceress that the man who presents her with a perfect white flo… |
| The Rustle of Silk | Lala De Breeze | 1923-05-13 | Lola de Breze loves Lord Arthur Fallaray from afar, though there seems to be no way to bring them together — he is England’s Colonial Secretary and m… |
| New Lives for Old | Olympe | 1925-02-22 | Olympe is a cabaret dancer who offers her services to France when her country goes to war. She becomes a spy and provides valuable intelligence inform… |
| Eve’s Secret | Eve | 1925-05-11 | Eve’s Secret is that she’s not the elegant society woman she seems to be. In fact, Eve is an unkempt country girl who’s been “transformed,” Pygmalion … |
| Border Raiders | Rose Hardy | 1918-10-06 | Ranch owner John Hardy becomes the dupe of Cleo Dade when he marries her and brings her home to be a mother to his daughter Rose…. |
| The Bonded Woman | Angela Gaskell | 1922-08-21 | Angela Gaskell travels and sails around the Pacific Ocean to rescue the man she loves, John Somers. Her task takes her from San Francisco bondage-serv… |
| The Female | Dalla | 1924-08-31 | A Sam Wood silent South Africa romance is a love story (based on Cynthia Stocklet Story) with a sad…and then happy ending. antic love triangle mel… |
| The Royal Oak | Lady Mildred Cholmondeley | 1923-10-01 | King Charles flees and hides in a huge oak tree when the troops loyal to Oliver Cromwell close in. The royal entourage is disguised, and the king’s sw… |
| The Law and the Woman | Margaret Rolfe | 1922-01-22 | Although Margaret and Julian Rolfe are deeply in love, Rolfe has a bit of a past. At one time he had befriended Clara Foster, a woman of the streets. … |
| Cheating Cheaters | Nan Carey | 1927-12-05 | Nan Carey ( Betty Compson ), a shoplifter, is caught by the police but acquitted through the influence of Lazare ( Lucien Littlefield ), a crooked law… |
| Over the Border | Jen Galbraith | 1922-06-04 | Jen Galbraith is in love with Sgt. Tom Flaherty of the Royal Mounted. She is the daughter of Peter Galbraith, who is engaged in smuggling moonshine wh… |
| The Woman with Four Faces | Elizabeth West | 1923-06-24 | The woman with four faces is a movie about a woman who happens to be both a thief and a con artist and who cannot be arrested because she is faceless…. |
| For Those We Love | Bernice Arnold | 1921-09-01 | Berenice Arnold spends her time trying to keep her family happy. This is easier said than done — her brother, Jimmy, is a gambler and he steals 80 do… |
| Prisoners of Love | Blanche Davis | 1921-01-16 | Blanche Henry, a vivacious young woman, finds what she believes is true love with a handsome young man, but then learns that he has designs on her you… |
| The Garden of Weeds | Dorothy Delbridge | 1924-11-02 | The title refers to the estate owned by Flagg, a man of great wealth and few morals. He installs chorus girls there until he grows tired of them… |
| The Devil’s Trail | Rose | 1919-06-16 | Whiskey smuggler Dubec, trades liquor to the Indians, takes revenge on the Royal North West Mounted Police pursuing him by killing the wife of post co… |
| Locked Doors | Mrs. Norman ‘Mary Reid’ Carter | 1925-01-05 | A young woman marries a man several years her senior to provide a comfortable home for her invalid father and then feels the call of youth and falls d… |
| The Docks of New York | Mae | 1928-09-16 | A blue-collar worker on New York’s depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woman attempting suicide…. |
| The Czar of Broadway | Connie Colton | 1930-05-25 | Mort Bradley, New York political boss and underworld czar, controls not only the city’s most popular nightclub but also much of the press; however, th… |
| The Great Gabbo | Mary | 1929-09-12 | For the ventriloquist Gabbo his wooden dummy Otto is the only means of expression. When he starts relying more and more on Otto, he starts going mad…. |
| On With the Show! | Nita | 1929-07-13 | With unpaid actors and staff, the stage show Phantom Sweetheart seems doomed. To complicate matters, the box office takings have been robbed and the l… |
| Notorious But Nice | Millie Sprague | 1933-08-04 | A lover selflessly steps aside to let her guy go so he can hook up with a rich dame. Sadly, the goodie good girl ends up marrying some scum bag gamble… |
| The Gay Diplomat | Baroness Corri | 1931-08-22 | Captain Orloff is sent to Bucharest to capture a Mata Hari type of spy, but many different women fit the bill and are attractive enough to make one qu… |
| Weary River | Alice Gray | 1929-02-10 | A gangster is put in prison, but finds salvation through music while serving his time. Again on the outside, he finds success elusive and temptations … |
| The Making Over of Mother | Mrs. Newlywed | 1916-10-15 | Neal and Betty are newlywed when her father dies. Betty goes to visit her mother and decides to take her to live with them. Neal, who has never met he… |
| The Miracle Man | Rose | 1919-08-26 | A gang of crooks evade the police by moving their operations to a small town. There the gang’s leader encounters a faith healer and uses him to scam g… |
| Scarlet Seas | Rose | 1928-01-12 | A sea captain comes to rescue of a prostitute in Shanghai, who is being run out of town. He takes her aboard his ship and heads out to sea. Not long a… |
| Mad Youth | Lucy Morgan | 1940-05-05 | A rich society mother hires a male escort, but he falls for her daughter instead. The mother-daughter conflict forces the daughter to run off to stay … |
| Two Gun Justice | Kate | 1938-04-29 | A western town is being overrun and ruled by a gang of outlaws led by Bart (John Merton). Former Ranger Tim (Tim McCoy) is called out of retirement an… |
| The Case of Sergeant Grischa | Babka | 1930-02-23 | This film earned an Oscar nomination for Sound Recording. It is the only film nominated in this category that is among the lost. No negative or print … |
| That Doggone Baby | Wifie Parker | 1916-10-20 | That Doggone Baby (1916) is about a small puppy who is supposed to be a baby…. |
| The Silver Lining | Kate Flynn | 1932-04-16 | A women in prison tale. Ones rich ones poor. Can they prosper after prison?… |
| Court-Martial | Belle Starr | 1928-08-12 | During the American Civil War, A Union-Army officer is ordered by U. S. President Abraham Lincoln to bring in Belle Starr, the leader of a Missouri gu… |
| Blaze o’ Glory | Helen Williams | 1929-12-30 | On trial for the murder of Carl Hummel, Eddie Williams tells his story, which begins just before the World War… |
| God’s Country and the Man | Roxey Moore | 1937-09-02 | Cowboy and his friends set out to track down his father’s killer. On the way, they discover a vein of gold. The killer finds out about it, and returns… |
| The Sheriff | School Teacher | 1918-11-24 | Roscoe Arbuckle plays a Douglas Fairbanks fan who becomes a rotund version of his hero. As “The Sheriff”, he must rescue abducted schoolteacher Betty … |
| Virtuous Husband | Inez Wakefield | 1931-04-12 | When a rich young man marries, he lets the books and letters left him by his dead mother guide his life…. |
| The Barker | Carrie | 1928-12-09 | A successful carnival barker deals with the arrival of his eager son, who he’d hoped would stay far from the carnival world, his son’s entanglement wi… |
| False Pretenses | Clarissa Stanhope | 1935-10-21 | A girl who’s just lost her job meets a drunk millionaire on a bridge who’s just lost his money. They go back to his house, and eventually come up with… |
| The Drag-Net | Mollie Cole | 1936-04-15 | A playboy takes a job as an assistant district attorney, finds himself up against a tough crime boss and his gang…. |
| A Trip to Paramountown | Herself | 1922-07-10 | Documentary short film depicting the filmmaking activity at the Paramount Studios in Hollywood, featuring dozens of stars captured candidly and at wor… |
| Hard Boiled Mahoney | Selena Webster | 1947-05-10 | Sach just lost his job as an assistant to a private detective, but he wasn’t paid. Slip goes with him down to the detective’s office to demand payment… |
| The Spoilers | Cherry Malotte | 1930-09-20 | On a voyage to Nome, Roy Glenister, one of the several owners of a rich mine, The Midas, is captivated by Helen Chester, while he both fascinates and … |
| Ladies Must Live | Christine Bleeker | 1921-10-29 | A societal romance drama based on an Alice Duer Miller novel…. |
| Isle of Escape | Stella | 1930-03-01 | On a South Sea island, Stella operates a hotel for her mother, who is constantly drunk on liquor smuggled by Shane, the principal trader and virtual d… |
| Love Me and the World Is Mine | Mitzel | 1927-09-26 | In Old Vienna in the days prior to The Great War, a beautiful woman, Hannerl, has her choice of two men; the first is a dashing young army officer who… |
| The Wise Guy | Hula Kate | 1926-05-23 | A carnival huckster who decides to turn pennies into dollars by passing himself off as a hellfire-and-brimstone evangelist…. |
| Here Comes Trouble | Martha Blake | 1948-03-15 | A blundering rookie reporter runs into some unexpected difficulty when he is assigned to cover the police beat…. |
| August Week End | Ethel Ames | 1936-02-17 | At a high-society dinner party, a wealthy, older and married man sets his sights on a beautiful young girl who’s loved by a younger and not-so-wealthy… |
| Circus Girl | Carlotta | 1937-03-01 | A jealous trapeze star decides he must eliminate his romantic rival…. |
| Port of Missing Girls | Chicago | 1938-02-24 | Nightclub singer Della Mason (Judith Allen)witnesses a murder and is forced by the killer to flee with him from the scene of the crime. Escaping from … |
| Religious Racketeers | Ada Bernard | 1938-07-07 | A wealthy young woman, racked with guilt because she wasn’t there when her mother died, is so desperate to contact her that she gets involved with a p… |
| Two Minutes to Play | ‘Fluff’ Harding | 1936-11-02 | Martin Granville Jr. (Bruce Bennett), a star track-and-field athlete, has intentions of going to Claxton College, but changes his mind when he meets P… |
| Those Who Dance | Kitty | 1930-04-18 | A policeman doubles as a gunman to get in with the mob…. |
| The Big City | Helen | 1928-03-23 | Gangster boss Chuck Collins, despite his ruthlessness, is a basically decent fellow. Collins is plagued by a rival gang, led by deceptively boyish Cur… |
| Laughing Irish Eyes | Molly | 1936-03-04 | An Irish crooner flirts with prize-fighting…. |
| Crazy by Proxy | 1917-09-12 | A young man is about to marry; it is the dawn of his wedding morn. The bride-to-be is also present; but while she eagerly pursues preparations for the… | |
| Danger! Women at Work | Madame Sappho | 1943-08-23 | Three women inherit a 10-ton truck and decide to go into business. Hi jinks ensue…. |
| Destination Unknown | Ruby Smith | 1933-04-01 | A group of people are stuck on a schooner in the middle of the Pacific with no wind…. |
| Torchy Blane in Panama | Kitty, Gomez’s Moll | 1938-05-07 | Torchy, Steve, and Gahagan are on the trail of a bank robber aboard an ocean liner traveling from New York to L.A. via the Panama Canal…. |
| Cowboys from Texas | Belle Starkey | 1939-11-29 | Cowboys from Texas is a 1939 American Western “Three Mesquiteers” B-movie directed by George Sherman.Texas has opened up land for homesteaders. Clay A… |
| Invisible Ghost | Mrs. Kessler | 1941-04-25 | The town’s leading citizen is a man victim of homicidal impulses beyond his control. He is being controlled by his wife who had left him for another m… |
| The Light of Victory | Jane Ravenslee | 1919-03-17 | U.S. Navy Lieutenant George Blenton becomes drunk at an official reception, and his fiancee, Jane Ravenslee, the captain’s daughter, breaks their enga… |
| Killer at Large | Kate | 1936-10-27 | A master of disguise poses as a wax figure to rob a safe of its jewels…. |
| Confessions of a Vice Baron | Mrs. Lucy Morgan (edited from Mad Youth) (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1943-06-30 | On the eve of his execution, a vice-rackets bigshot recalls his various exploits in crimes such as abortion and white slavery, in which he frequently … |
| Blondes at Work | Blanche Revelle | 1938-02-05 | When a rival newspaper publisher complains to his captain about possible collusion between himself and reporter Torchy Blane on scooping her rivals in… |
| Bulldog Edition | Billie Blake | 1936-09-13 | Two rival newspapers are engaged in a circulation battle, complicated by the fact that a vicious gangster inserts himself into the middle of it. Also … |
| Beggar on Horseback | Princess in Pantomime | 1925-06-05 | Neil McRae, an impoverished composer, loves Cynthia Mason, but, fearing poverty, proposes to wealthy Gladys Cady. Can he compose himself and find the … |
| Laughing at Danger | Mrs. Van Horn | 1940-08-12 | Frankie Kelly, pageboy at the beauty salon ran by Madam Celeste, and his helper Jefferson find the routine broken when the body of one of the operator… |
| Her Adventurous Night | Miss Spencer | 1946-06-05 | A boy’s tall tale about a gun puts his parents and school principal in jail…. |
| Under the Big Top | Marie | 1938-08-31 | Director Karl Brown’s 1938 circus drama stars Marjorie Main as a tough, fur-coat-wearing circus boss who raises her orphaned niece to be a trapeze sta… |
| Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films | Herself (archive footage) | 2011-04-03 | Among the pieces featured in Fragments are the final reel of John Ford’s The Village Blacksmith (1922) and a glimpse at Emil Jannings in The Way of Al… |
| Federal Bullets | Sue, Gang Moll | 1937-10-29 | Federal Bullets is a leisurely paced Monogram crime melodrama with not a few clever plot twists. The FBI, represented by Milburn Stone and William Har… |
| Mr. & Mrs. Smith | Gertie | 1941-01-31 | Happily married for three years, Ann and David Smith live in New York. One morning Ann asks David if he had to do it over again, would he marry her? T… |
| News Is Made at Night | Kitty Truman | 1939-07-20 | Newspaper editor (Foster) will do almost anything to increase circulation. He campaigns to free a condemned man while accusing a wealthy ex-criminal o… |
| Hotel Imperial | Soubrette (uncredited) | 1939-05-11 | It is the fate of a small frontier town, adjoining the no-man’s-land where the Russians and Austrians are fighting out one of the final campaigns of W… |
| Roar of the Press | Mrs. Thelma Tate | 1941-04-17 | While on their honeymoon, a reporter and his new bride stumble upon a ring of fifth columnists…. |
| Fashion News | Self (1930) | 1928-11-06 | Hollywood actresses including Jeanette Loff and Raquel Torres modeling Spring fashions in color…. |
| Second Chance | Mrs. Davenport | 1947-07-18 | Jewel thieves battle investigators…. |
| Strange Cargo | Suzanne (uncredited) | 1940-03-01 | Convicts escaping from Devil’s Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure…. |
| Hollywood Boulevard | Betty | 1936-08-20 | With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to w… |
| The House That Shadows Built | (archive footage) | 1931-07-08 | The House That Shadows Built (1931) is a short feature, roughly 48 minutes long, from Paramount Pictures made to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the… |
| Cafe Hostess | Cafe Hostess | 1940-01-11 | A dancehall girl meets a sailor and they fall in love, but the club’s owner doesn’t want the girl to leave…. |
| A Slight Case of Murder | Loretta | 1938-02-26 | Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with forclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law, and four hard-to-explain corpses…. |
| The Beloved Brat | Eleanor Sparks | 1938-04-30 | Roberta Morgan is being raised in a wealthy home where her mother is occupied with her society-club activities and her father is immersed in his busin… |
| Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? | (archive footage) | 1975-08-06 | Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression…. |
| Hollywood | Betty Compson | 1923-08-19 | Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her longtim… |
| Show of Shows | Performer in ‘The Pirate Number’ & ‘Lady Luck’ Numbers (uncredited) | 1929-11-21 | It’s 1929. The studio gave the cinema its voice gave offered the audiences a chance to see their favorite actors and actresses from the silent screen … |
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| For Those We Love | Writer | 1921-09-01 | Berenice Arnold spends her time trying to keep her family happy. This is easier said than done — her brother, Jimmy, is a gambler and he steals 80 do… |
| Prisoners of Love | Writer | 1921-01-16 | Blanche Henry, a vivacious young woman, finds what she believes is true love with a handsome young man, but then learns that he has designs on her you… |
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