Joyce Compton
Born: 1907-01-27 in Lexington, Kentucky, USA
Died: 1997-10-13
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Olivia Joyce Compton (January 27, 1907 – October 13, 1997) was an American actress. Compton was born in Lexington, Kentucky. (Despite frequent reports to the contrary, her name was not originally "Eleanor Hunt"; she had appeared in the film Good Sport (1931) with Hunt and this confusion in an early press article followed Compton throughout her career.) After graduating high school she spent two years studying at the University of Tulsa, studying dramatics, art, music and dancing. She won a personality and beauty contest and spent two months in a film studio as an extra. Compton first made a name for herself when she was named one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1926, alongside Mary Brian, Dolores Costello, Joan Crawford, Dolores del Río, Janet Gaynor and Fay Wray. Compton appeared in a long string of mostly B-movies from the 1920s through the 1950s. She was a comedy actress and protested at being stereotyped as a "dumb blonde". Among her over two hundred films were Imitation of Life, Magnificent Obsession, The Awful Truth, Mildred Pierce, and The Best Years of Our Lives. A devout Christian, on her gravestone, just beneath her dates of birth and death, is written "Christian Actress". She died from natural causes, aged 90, and was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in the Hollywood Hills.
Filmography
1960
1958
- Girl in the Woods as Aunt Martha
1957
- Richard Diamond, Private Detective as Waitress
- Jet Pilot as Mary Lou Simpson
- The Persuader as Julie
1953
- I Was a Burlesque Queen as Mrs. Nunnally LaVitte
1952
- The Abbott and Costello Show as Girl at Drivers License Bureau
1949
- Mighty Joe Young as Alice (uncredited)
- Grand Canyon as Mabel
1948
- Sorry, Wrong Number as Cotterell's Blonde Girlfriend (uncredited)
- A Southern Yankee as Hortense Dobson
- Incident as Joan Manning
1947
- Exposed as Emmy
- Scared to Death as Jane Cornell
- Linda, Be Good as Mrs. LaVitte
1946
- The Best Years of Our Lives as Hat Check Girl (uncredited)
- Dark Alibi as Emily Evans
- Rendezvous with Annie as Louise Grapa (uncredited)
- Behind the Mask as Lulu
1945
- Mildred Pierce as Waitress (uncredited)
- Christmas in Connecticut as Nurse Mary Lee
- Danger Signal as Kate
- Pillow to Post as Gertrude Wilson (uncredited)
- Hitchhike to Happiness as Joan Randall
1943
- Silver Spurs as Millie Love
- Let's Face It as Wiggin's Girl (uncredited)
- Silver Skates as Lucille
- Swing Out the Blues as Kitty Grogan
1942
- Thunder Birds as Saleswoman
- Too Many Women as Barbara Cartwright
1941
- Ziegfeld Girl as Miss Sawyer (uncredited)
- Manpower as Scarlett
- Blues in the Night as Blonde
- Bedtime Story as Beulah
- Scattergood Meets Broadway as Diana Deane
- Moon Over Her Shoulder as Cecilia
- Let's Make Music as Betty
1940
- They Drive by Night as Sue Carter (uncredited)
- City for Conquest as Lilly
- The Villain Still Pursued Her as Hazel Dalton
- I Take This Oath as Betty Casey
- Sky Murder as Christine Cross / Her Twin Sister
- Turnabout as Irene Clare
- Who Killed Aunt Maggie? as Cynthia Lou
- Honeymoon Deferred as Kitty Kerry
1939
- Hollywood Hobbies as Tourist
- Balalaika as Masha
- Rose of Washington Square as Peggy
- The Flying Irishman as Sally
- Hotel for Women as Emeline Thomas
- Reno as Bonnie Newcomb
- Escape to Paradise as Penelope Carter
1938
- You and Me as Curly Blonde
- Going Places as Joan
- Trade Winds as Mrs. Johnson
- Women Are Like That as Miss Hall
- Spring Madness as Sally
- Artists and Models Abroad as Chickie
- Love on a Budget as Millie Brown
- How to Watch Football as Benchley's girlfriend
- The Last Warning as Dawn Day aka Minnie Schultz
1937
- The Awful Truth as Dixie Belle Lee
- Kid Galahad as Party Guest on Phone (uncredited)
- Pick a Star as Newlywed
- The Toast of New York as Mary Lou (uncredited)
- We Have Our Moments as Carrie
- Wings Over Honolulu as Caroline
- Born Reckless as Dora
- China Passage as Elaine Gentry
- Top of the Town as Beulah
- Rhythm in the Clouds as Receptionist
- Sea Racketeers as Blondie
- Small Town Boy as Molly Summers
1936
- Three Smart Girls as Evans' Secretary
- Trapped by Television as Mae Collins
- Murder with Pictures as Hester Boone
- Star for a Night as Ellen Romaine
- Sitting on the Moon as Blossom
- Love Before Breakfast as Mary Lee
- Ellis Island as Adele
- Under Your Spell as Secretary (uncredited)
- Valley of the Lawless as Joan Jenkins
- The Harvester as Thelma Biddle
- Country Gentlemen as Gertie
1935
- College Scandal as Toby Carpenter
- Rustlers of Red Dog as Mary Lee
- Go Into Your Dance as Café Showgirl
- Let 'em Have It as Barbara
- Suicide Squad as Mary O'Connor
- Life Hesitates at 40 as Joyce
- Manhattan Monkey Business as Joyce
- Public Ghost # 1 as Miss Compton
1934
- Imitation of Life as Young Woman at Party (uncredited)
- Affairs of a Gentleman as Foxey Dennison
- Million Dollar Ransom as Millie, Hat Check Girl (Uncredited)
- The White Parade as Una Mellon
- King Kelly of the U.S.A. as Maxine LaTour
- Caravan as Party Girl at Beer Garden (Uncredited)
- Everything's Ducky as Jennie Taylor, Eddie's Wife
1933
- Only Yesterday as Margot (Uncredited)
- Luxury Liner as Girl Overboard (uncredited)
- Sing, Sinner, Sing as Gwen
- Dream Stuff as Betty
- The Wrestler's Bride as Mrs. Scissors Jackson
- The Plumber and the Lady as Louise
- Caliente Love as Betty
- Roadhouse Queen as Dorothy
1932
- Beauty Parlor as Joan Perry
- Westward Passage as Lillie, the Model (uncredited)
- If I Had a Million as Marie - Waitress (uncredited)
- Under Eighteen as Sybil
- A Parisian Romance as Marcelle
- Afraid to Talk as Alice - Party Girl
- Madison Square Garden as Joyce
- Lady and Gent as Betty
- Unholy Love as Sheilla Bailey Gregory
- Fighting for Justice as Amy Tracy
- False Faces as Dottie Nation
- Lena Rivers as Caroline Nichols
1931
- Up Pops the Devil as Luella May Carroll
- Three Girls Lost as Edna Best
- The Spider as Butch's Girl Friend (uncredited)
- Three Rogues as Ace's girl
- Good Sport as Fay
- Women of All Nations as Kiki
- Annabelle's Affairs as Mabel
1930
- Lightnin' as Betty - Larry's Wife
- Wild Company as Anita Grayson
- The Three Sisters as Carlotta
- High Society Blues as Pearl Granger
1929
- Salute as Marian Wilson
- Dangerous Curves as Jennie Silver
- The Wild Party as Eva 'Evie' Tutt
- The Sky Hawk as Peggy
1928
- Soft Living as Billie Wilson
- Thunder Riders as Madge Lawton
1927
- Ankles Preferred as Virginia
- The Border Cavalier as Madge Lawton
1926
- Syncopating Sue as Marge Adams
1925
- What Fools Men as Dorothy
- A Broadway Lady as Phyllis Westbrook