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
- Pillow to Post as Gertrude Wilson (uncredited)
- Danger Signal as Kate
- Hitchhike to Happiness as Joan Randall
1943
- Swing Out the Blues as Kitty Grogan
- Let's Face It as Wiggin's Girl (uncredited)
- Silver Spurs as Millie Love
- Silver Skates as Lucille
1942
- Thunder Birds as Saleswoman
- Too Many Women as Barbara Cartwright
1941
- Ziegfeld Girl as Miss Sawyer (uncredited)
- Blues in the Night as Blonde
- Let's Make Music as Betty
- Manpower as Scarlett
- Moon Over Her Shoulder as Cecilia
- Scattergood Meets Broadway as Diana Deane
- Bedtime Story as Beulah
1940
- They Drive by Night as Sue Carter (uncredited)
- City for Conquest as Lilly
- I Take This Oath as Betty Casey
- The Villain Still Pursued Her as Hazel Dalton
- Turnabout as Irene Clare
- Who Killed Aunt Maggie? as Cynthia Lou
- Sky Murder as Christine Cross / Her Twin Sister
- Honeymoon Deferred as Kitty Kerry
1939
- The Flying Irishman as Sally
- Rose of Washington Square as Peggy
- Balalaika as Masha
- Hollywood Hobbies as Tourist
- Reno as Bonnie Newcomb
- Hotel for Women as Emeline Thomas
- Escape to Paradise as Penelope Carter
1938
- You and Me as Curly Blonde
- Artists and Models Abroad as Chickie
- Going Places as Joan
- Women Are Like That as Miss Hall
- Trade Winds as Mrs. Johnson
- Love on a Budget as Millie Brown
- Spring Madness as Sally
- 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
- The Toast of New York as Mary Lou (uncredited)
- Kid Galahad as Party Guest on Phone (uncredited)
- We Have Our Moments as Carrie
- Top of the Town as Beulah
- Pick a Star as Newlywed
- Rhythm in the Clouds as Receptionist
- China Passage as Elaine Gentry
- Born Reckless as Dora
- Wings Over Honolulu as Caroline
- Small Town Boy as Molly Summers
- Sea Racketeers as Blondie
1936
- Three Smart Girls as Evans' Secretary
- Ellis Island as Adele
- Star for a Night as Ellen Romaine
- Valley of the Lawless as Joan Jenkins
- Sitting on the Moon as Blossom
- Love Before Breakfast as Mary Lee
- Trapped by Television as Mae Collins
- Under Your Spell as Secretary (uncredited)
- The Harvester as Thelma Biddle
- Country Gentlemen as Gertie
- Murder with Pictures as Hester Boone
1935
- Rustlers of Red Dog as Mary Lee
- Go Into Your Dance as Café Showgirl
- Life Hesitates at 40 as Joyce
- Let 'em Have It as Barbara
- College Scandal as Toby Carpenter
- Suicide Squad as Mary O'Connor
- Manhattan Monkey Business as Joyce
- Public Ghost # 1 as Miss Compton
1934
- Imitation of Life as Young Woman at Party (uncredited)
- King Kelly of the U.S.A. as Maxine LaTour
- Affairs of a Gentleman as Foxey Dennison
- The White Parade as Una Mellon
- Million Dollar Ransom as Millie, Hat Check Girl (Uncredited)
- Caravan as Party Girl at Beer Garden (Uncredited)
- Everything's Ducky as Jennie Taylor, Eddie's Wife
1933
- Luxury Liner as Girl Overboard (uncredited)
- Only Yesterday as Margot (Uncredited)
- The Plumber and the Lady as Louise
- The Wrestler's Bride as Mrs. Scissors Jackson
- Sing, Sinner, Sing as Gwen
- Dream Stuff as Betty
- Caliente Love as Betty
- Roadhouse Queen as Dorothy
1932
- If I Had a Million as Marie - Waitress (uncredited)
- Westward Passage as Lillie, the Model (uncredited)
- Beauty Parlor as Joan Perry
- Afraid to Talk as Alice - Party Girl
- Madison Square Garden as Joyce
- Under Eighteen as Sybil
- A Parisian Romance as Marcelle
- Lady and Gent as Betty
- Fighting for Justice as Amy Tracy
- Lena Rivers as Caroline Nichols
- False Faces as Dottie Nation
- Unholy Love as Sheilla Bailey Gregory
1931
- Up Pops the Devil as Luella May Carroll
- Three Girls Lost as Edna Best
- Women of All Nations as Kiki
- Annabelle's Affairs as Mabel
- The Spider as Butch's Girl Friend (uncredited)
- Three Rogues as Ace's girl
- Good Sport as Fay
1930
- High Society Blues as Pearl Granger
- Lightnin' as Betty - Larry's Wife
- Wild Company as Anita Grayson
- The Three Sisters as Carlotta
1929
- Salute as Marian Wilson
- The Wild Party as Eva 'Evie' Tutt
- The Sky Hawk as Peggy
- Dangerous Curves as Jennie Silver
1928
- 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