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