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
- Grand Canyon as Mabel
- Mighty Joe Young as Alice (uncredited)
1948
- Incident as Joan Manning
- Sorry, Wrong Number as Cotterell's Blonde Girlfriend (uncredited)
- A Southern Yankee as Hortense Dobson
1947
- Scared to Death as Jane Cornell
- Linda, Be Good as Mrs. LaVitte
- Exposed as Emmy
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)
- Danger Signal as Kate
- Christmas in Connecticut as Nurse Mary Lee
- Pillow to Post as Gertrude Wilson (uncredited)
- Hitchhike to Happiness as Joan Randall
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
- Thunder Birds as Saleswoman
- Too Many Women as Barbara Cartwright
1941
- Manpower as Scarlett
- Scattergood Meets Broadway as Diana Deane
- Ziegfeld Girl as Miss Sawyer, Auditioning Showgirl (uncredited)
- Let's Make Music as Betty
- Moon Over Her Shoulder as Cecilia
- Blues in the Night as Blonde
- Bedtime Story as Beulah
1940
- Sky Murder as Christine Cross / Her Twin Sister
- The Villain Still Pursued Her as Hazel Dalton
- They Drive by Night as Sue Carter (uncredited)
- Who Killed Aunt Maggie? as Cynthia Lou
- I Take This Oath as Betty Casey
- City for Conquest as Lilly
- Turnabout as Irene Clare
- Honeymoon Deferred as Kitty Kerry
1939
- Reno as Bonnie Newcomb
- Escape to Paradise as Penelope Carter
- Rose of Washington Square as Peggy
- Hotel for Women as Emeline Thomas
- Balalaika as Masha
- The Flying Irishman as Sally
- Hollywood Hobbies as Tourist
1938
- Spring Madness as Sally
- Trade Winds as Mrs. Johnson
- The Last Warning as Dawn Day aka Minnie Schultz
- You and Me as Curly Blonde
- Love on a Budget as Millie Brown
- Women Are Like That as Miss Hall
- Going Places as Joan
- How to Watch Football as Benchley's girlfriend
- Artists and Models Abroad as Chickie
1937
- Born Reckless as Dora
- China Passage as Elaine Gentry
- Sea Racketeers as Blondie
- The Toast of New York as Mary Lou (uncredited)
- The Awful Truth as Dixie Belle Lee
- Wings Over Honolulu as Caroline
- Pick a Star as Newlywed
- Kid Galahad as (uncredited)
- We Have Our Moments as Carrie
- Rhythm in the Clouds as Receptionist
- Top of the Town as Beulah
- Small Town Boy as Molly Summers
1936
- The Harvester as Thelma Biddle
- Sitting on the Moon as Blossom
- Love Before Breakfast as Mary Lee
- Star for a Night as Ellen Romaine
- Trapped by Television as Mae Collins
- Under Your Spell as Secretary (uncredited)
- Country Gentlemen as Gertie
- Three Smart Girls as Evans' Secretary
- Ellis Island as Adele
- Valley of the Lawless as Joan Jenkins
- Murder with Pictures as Hester Boone
1935
- Suicide Squad as Mary O'Connor
- Go Into Your Dance as Café Showgirl
- College Scandal as Toby Carpenter
- Public Ghost # 1 as Miss Compton
- Manhattan Monkey Business as Joyce
- Let 'em Have It as Barbara
- Rustlers of Red Dog as Mary Lee
- Life Hesitates at 40 as Joyce
1934
- Caravan as Party Girl at Beer Garden (Uncredited)
- Imitation of Life as Young Woman at Party (uncredited)
- Million Dollar Ransom as Millie, Hat Check Girl (Uncredited)
- Affairs of a Gentleman as Foxey Dennison
- The White Parade as Una Mellon
- King Kelly of the U.S.A. as Maxine LaTour
- Everything's Ducky as Jennie Taylor, Eddie's Wife
1933
- Dream Stuff as Betty
- Only Yesterday as Margot (Uncredited)
- Roadhouse Queen as Dorothy
- Caliente Love as Betty
- Luxury Liner as Girl Overboard (uncredited)
- Sing, Sinner, Sing as Gwen
- The Plumber and the Lady as Louise
- The Wrestler's Bride as Mrs. Scissors Jackson
1932
- Lena Rivers as Caroline Nichols
- False Faces as Dottie Nation
- Unholy Love as Sheilla Bailey Gregory
- Under Eighteen as Sybil
- If I Had a Million as Marie - Waitress (uncredited)
- Westward Passage as Lillie, the Model (uncredited)
- Madison Square Garden as Joyce
- Afraid to Talk as Alice - Party Girl
- Fighting for Justice as Amy Tracy
- Lady and Gent as Betty
- Beauty Parlor as Joan Perry
- A Parisian Romance as Marcelle
1931
- The Spider as Butch's Girl Friend (uncredited)
- Good Sport as Fay
- Women of All Nations as Kiki
- Up Pops the Devil as Luella May Carroll
- Three Girls Lost as Edna Best
- Three Rogues as Ace's girl
- Annabelle's Affairs as Mabel
1930
- Lightnin' as Betty - Larry's Wife
- Wild Company as Anita Grayson
- High Society Blues as Pearl Granger
- The Three Sisters as Carlotta
1929
- Dangerous Curves as Jennie Silver
- Salute as Marian Wilson
- The Wild Party as Eva 'Evie' Tutt
- The Sky Hawk as Peggy
1928
- Thunder Riders as Madge Lawton
- Soft Living as Billie Wilson
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