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