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)
- Incident as Joan Manning
- A Southern Yankee as Hortense Dobson
1947
- Scared to Death as Jane Cornell
- Exposed as Emmy
- Linda, Be Good as Mrs. LaVitte
1946
- The Best Years of Our Lives as Hat Check Girl (uncredited)
- Rendezvous with Annie as Louise Grapa (uncredited)
- Dark Alibi as Emily Evans
- Behind the Mask as Lulu
1945
- Mildred Pierce as Waitress (uncredited)
- Christmas in Connecticut as Nurse Mary Lee
- Pillow to Post as Gertrude Wilson (uncredited)
- Hitchhike to Happiness as Joan Randall
- Danger Signal as Kate
1943
- Silver Spurs as Millie Love
- Silver Skates as Lucille
- Let's Face It as Wiggin's Girl (uncredited)
- Swing Out the Blues as Kitty Grogan
1942
- Too Many Women as Barbara Cartwright
- Thunder Birds as Saleswoman
1941
- Manpower as Scarlett
- Ziegfeld Girl as Miss Sawyer, Auditioning Showgirl (uncredited)
- Blues in the Night as Blonde
- Bedtime Story as Beulah
- Moon Over Her Shoulder as Cecilia
- Scattergood Meets Broadway as Diana Deane
- Let's Make Music as Betty
1940
- They Drive by Night as Sue Carter (uncredited)
- City for Conquest as Lilly
- Turnabout as Irene Clare
- The Villain Still Pursued Her as Hazel Dalton
- Sky Murder as Christine Cross / Her Twin Sister
- Who Killed Aunt Maggie? as Cynthia Lou
- I Take This Oath as Betty Casey
- Honeymoon Deferred as Kitty Kerry
1939
- Hotel for Women as Emeline Thomas
- Balalaika as Masha
- Reno as Bonnie Newcomb
- Hollywood Hobbies as Tourist
- Rose of Washington Square as Peggy
- Escape to Paradise as Penelope Carter
- The Flying Irishman as Sally
1938
- You and Me as Curly Blonde
- Artists and Models Abroad as Chickie
- Going Places as Joan
- Trade Winds as Mrs. Johnson
- Spring Madness as Sally
- Women Are Like That as Miss Hall
- The Last Warning as Dawn Day aka Minnie Schultz
- Love on a Budget as Millie Brown
- How to Watch Football as Benchley's girlfriend
1937
- Kid Galahad as Party Guest on Phone (uncredited)
- The Awful Truth as Dixie Belle Lee
- Pick a Star as Newlywed
- The Toast of New York as Mary Lou (uncredited)
- China Passage as Elaine Gentry
- Top of the Town as Beulah
- Born Reckless as Dora
- We Have Our Moments as Carrie
- Wings Over Honolulu as Caroline
- Rhythm in the Clouds as Receptionist
- Sea Racketeers as Blondie
- Small Town Boy as Molly Summers
1936
- Under Your Spell as Secretary (uncredited)
- Ellis Island as Adele
- Three Smart Girls as Evans' Secretary
- Murder with Pictures as Hester Boone
- Love Before Breakfast as Mary Lee
- The Harvester as Thelma Biddle
- Star for a Night as Ellen Romaine
- Country Gentlemen as Gertie
- Trapped by Television as Mae Collins
- Sitting on the Moon as Blossom
- Valley of the Lawless as Joan Jenkins
1935
- Suicide Squad as Mary O'Connor
- Rustlers of Red Dog as Mary Lee
- Let 'em Have It as Barbara
- College Scandal as Toby Carpenter
- Go Into Your Dance as Café Showgirl
- Life Hesitates at 40 as Joyce
- Public Ghost # 1 as Miss Compton
- Manhattan Monkey Business as Joyce
1934
- Imitation of Life as Young Woman at Party (uncredited)
- Million Dollar Ransom as Millie, Hat Check Girl (Uncredited)
- Caravan as Party Girl at Beer Garden (Uncredited)
- The White Parade as Una Mellon
- King Kelly of the U.S.A. as Maxine LaTour
- Affairs of a Gentleman as Foxey Dennison
- Everything's Ducky as Jennie Taylor, Eddie's Wife
1933
- Only Yesterday as Margot (Uncredited)
- Luxury Liner as Girl Overboard (uncredited)
- The Wrestler's Bride as Mrs. Scissors Jackson
- Caliente Love as Betty
- Dream Stuff as Betty
- The Plumber and the Lady as Louise
- Roadhouse Queen as Dorothy
- Sing, Sinner, Sing as Gwen
1932
- If I Had a Million as Marie - Waitress (uncredited)
- Lena Rivers as Caroline Nichols
- Madison Square Garden as Joyce
- Under Eighteen as Sybil
- Unholy Love as Sheilla Bailey Gregory
- False Faces as Dottie Nation
- Beauty Parlor as Joan Perry
- Westward Passage as Lillie, the Model (uncredited)
- Lady and Gent as Betty
- Afraid to Talk as Alice - Party Girl
- Fighting for Justice as Amy Tracy
- A Parisian Romance as Marcelle
1931
- Three Rogues as Ace's girl
- Three Girls Lost as Edna Best
- The Spider as Butch's Girl Friend (uncredited)
- Women of All Nations as Kiki
- Annabelle's Affairs as Mabel
- Up Pops the Devil as Luella May Carroll
- Good Sport as Fay
1930
- Lightnin' as Betty - Larry's Wife
- The Three Sisters as Carlotta
- Wild Company as Anita Grayson
- High Society Blues as Pearl Granger
1929
- Dangerous Curves as Jennie Silver
- The Wild Party as Eva 'Evie' Tutt
- Salute as Marian Wilson
- 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