Betty Compson
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Betty Compson (March 19, 1897 – April 18, 1974) was an American actress and film producer. Most famous in silent films and early talkies, she is best known in her performances in The Docks of New York and The Barker, the latter earning a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
Known for
Credits
The Show of Shows (1929)
as Performer in 'The Pirate Number' & 'Lady Luck' Numbers (uncredited)
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941)
as Gertie
Virtuous Husband (1931)
as Inez Wakefield
Skin Deep (1929)
as Sadie Rogers
Midnight Mystery (1930)
as Sally Wayne
False Pretenses (1935)
as Clarissa Stanhope
A Slight Case of Murder (1938)
as Loretta
Strange Cargo (1940)
as Suzanne (uncredited)
Scarlet Seas (1928)
as Rose
Religious Racketeers (1938)
as Ada Bernard
Invisible Ghost (1941)
as Mrs. Kessler
Cheating Cheaters (1927)
as Nan Carey
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? (1975)
as Self (archive footage)
Hotel Imperial (1939)
as Soubrette (uncredited)
The Docks of New York (1928)
as Mae
Here Comes Trouble (1948)
as Martha Blake
The Wise Guy (1926)
as Hula Kate
Hollywood Boulevard (1936)
as Betty
Destination Unknown (1933)
as Ruby Smith
Circus Girl (1937)
as Carlotta
The House That Shadows Built (1931)
as (archive footage)
The Masked Angel (1928)
as Betty
West of Singapore (1933)
as Lou
Out for the Coin (1917)
Actor
Eve's Secret (1925)
as Eve
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films (2011)
as Herself (archive footage)
Cafe Hostess (1940)
as Cafe Hostess
The Beloved Brat (1938)
as Eleanor Sparks
The Millionaire Kid (1936)
as Gloria Neville
Those Who Dance (1930)
as Kitty
Roar of the Press (1941)
as Mrs. Thelma Tate
The Miracle Man (1919)
as Rose
Street Girl (1929)
as Frederika Joyzelle
Halloween Monster Bash (1991)
as Mrs. Kessler (archive footage)
The Enemy Sex (1924)
as Dodo Baxter
Weary River (1929)
as Alice Gray
Prisoners of Love (1921)
as Blanche Davis
Mad Youth (1940)
as Lucy Morgan
The Royal Oak (1923)
as Lady Mildred Cholmondeley
Life's Mockery (1928)
as Kit Miller/Isabelle Fullerton
News Is Made at Night (1939)
as Kitty Truman
The Terror of the Range (1919)
as Thelma Grant
Bulldog Edition (1936)
as Billie Blake
Isle of Escape (1930)
as Stella
Cowboys from Texas (1939)
as Belle Starkey
Hollywood (1923)
as Betty Compson
Woman to Woman (1923)
as Louise Boucher / Deloryse
For Those We Love (1921)
as Bernice Arnold
That Doggone Baby (1916)
as Wifie Parker
The Drag Net (1936)
as Mollie Cole
Always the Woman (1922)
as Celia Thaxter / Queen Neco Tokris
The Great Gabbo (1929)
as Mary
Beggar on Horseback (1925)
as Princess in Pantomime
Notorious But Nice (1933)
as Millie Sprague
Inoculating Hubby (1916)
Actor
A Trip to Paramountown (1922)
as Self
Guilty or Not Guilty (1932)
as Maizie
Hard Boiled Mahoney (1947)
as Selena Webster
On With the Show! (1929)
as Nita
The Barker (1928)
as Carrie
Laughing Irish Eyes (1936)
as Molly
The White Shadow (1924)
as Nancy Brent / Georgina Brent
Under the Big Top (1938)
as Marie
Torchy Blane in Panama (1938)
as Kitty, Gomez's Moll
Inside the Lines (1930)
as Jane Gershon
The Palace of Pleasure (1926)
as Lola Montez
Escort Girl (1941)
as Ruth Ashley
Paths to Paradise (1925)
as Molly
August Week End (1936)
as Ethel Ames
Federal Bullets (1937)
as Sue, Gang Moll
Blondes at Work (1938)
as Blanche Revelle
The Time, the Place and the Girl (1929)
as Doris Ward
The Bonded Woman (1922)
as Angela Gaskell
The Lady Refuses (1931)
as June
The Woman with Four Faces (1923)
as Elizabeth West
Hollywood Halfbacks (1931)
Actor
Her Adventurous Night (1946)
as Miss Spencer
Blaze o' Glory (1929)
as Helen Williams
To Have and to Hold (1922)
as Lady Jocelyn Leigh
The Stranger (1924)
as Peggy Bowlin
New Lives for Old (1925)
as Olympe
The Spoilers (1930)
as Cherry Malotte
The Gay Diplomat (1931)
as Baroness Corri
Killer at Large (1936)
as Kate
God's Country and the Man (1937)
as Roxey Moore
Hubby's Night Out (1917)
as Wifey
Woman to Woman (1929)
as Deloryce / Lola
The Czar of Broadway (1930)
as Connie Colton
Two Minutes to Play (1936)
as 'Fluff' Harding
The Silver Lining (1932)
as Kate Flynn
The Belle of Broadway (1926)
as Marie Duval / The Young Adele
The Pony Express (1925)
as Molly Jones
Kick In (1922)
as Molly Brandon
Ladies Must Live (1921)
as Christine Bleeker
Three Who Loved (1931)
as Helga Larson Hanson
Two Gun Justice (1938)
as Kate
Love Me and the World Is Mine (1927)
as Mitzel
The Big City (1928)
as Helen
Second Chance (1947)
as Mrs. Davenport
Port of Missing Girls (1938)
as Chicago
The Rustle of Silk (1923)
as Lala De Breeze
Court Martial (1928)
as Belle Starr
The Case of Sergeant Grischa (1930)
as Babka
The Garden of Weeds (1924)
as Dorothy Delbridge
Laughing at Danger (1940)
as Mrs. Van Horn
The Fast Set (1924)
as Margaret Sones
The Desert Bride (1928)
as Diane Duval
The White Flower (1923)
as Konia Markham
The Boudoir Diplomat (1930)
as Helene
She Got What She Wanted (1930)
Actor
Miami (1924)
as Joan Bruce
Danger! Women at Work (1943)
as Madame Sappho
At the End of the World (1921)
as Cherry O'Day
The Sheriff (1918)
as School Teacher
Over the Border (1922)
as Jen Galbraith
Confessions of a Vice Baron (1943)
as Mrs. Lucy Morgan (edited from Mad Youth) (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Light of Victory (1919)
as Jane Ravenslee
Locked Doors (1925)
as Mrs. Norman 'Mary Reid' Carter
Counsel for the Defense (1925)
as Katherine West
As Luck Would Have It (1917)
Actor
The Female (1924)
as Dalla
Say It with Diamonds (1927)
as Betty Howard
The Devil's Trail (1919)
as Rose
No Sleep on the Deep (1934)
as Mrs. Eldridge
The Green Temptation (1922)
as Genelle / Coralyn / Joan Parker
Border Raiders (1918)
as Rose Hardy
Ramshackle House (1924)
as Pen Broome
Law and the Woman (1922)
as Margaret Rolfe
The Little Minister (1921)
as Lady Babbie
Temptations of a Shop Girl (1927)
as Ruth Harrington
Crazy by Proxy (1917)
Actor
The Making Over of Mother (1916)
as Mrs. Newlywed