Betty Compson
Born in Beaver, Utah, USA — Mar 17 1897• Died Apr 18 1974
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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.
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Betty Compson's Credits
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Roar of the Press
Mrs. Thelma Tate
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Gertie
Strange Cargo
Suzanne (uncredited)
A Slight Case of Murder
Loretta
News Is Made at Night
Kitty Truman
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood
Betty Compson
Weary River
Alice Gray
Street Girl
Frederika Joyzelle
The Docks of New York
Mae
The Show of Shows
Performer in 'The Pirate Number' & 'Lady Luck' Numbers (uncredited)
Blondes at Work
Blanche Revelle
The Stranger
Peggy Bowlin
Torchy Blane in Panama
Kitty, Gomez's Moll
Beggar on Horseback
Princess in Pantomime
Cafe Hostess
Cafe Hostess
A Trip to Paramountown
Self
Hard Boiled Mahoney
Selena Webster
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
Herself (archive footage)
Hollywood Boulevard
Betty
Invisible Ghost
Mrs. Kessler
The House That Shadows Built
(archive footage)
Midnight Mystery
Sally Wayne
The Beloved Brat
Eleanor Sparks
The Wise Guy
Hula Kate
The Barker
Carrie
Hollywood Halfbacks
The Desert Bride
Diane Duval
The Royal Oak
Lady Mildred Cholmondeley
The Gay Diplomat
Baroness Corri
Two Gun Justice
Kate
The White Shadow
Nancy Brent / Georgina Brent
Escort Girl
Ruth Ashley
Second Chance
Mrs. Davenport
Isle of Escape
Stella
Skin Deep
Sadie Rogers
Virtuous Husband
Inez Wakefield
False Pretenses
Clarissa Stanhope
Inside the Lines
Jane Gershon
The Big City
Helen
Scarlet Seas
Rose
Hotel Imperial
Soubrette (uncredited)
Guilty or Not Guilty
Maizie
Mad Youth
Lucy Morgan
Bulldog Edition
Billie Blake
Here Comes Trouble
Martha Blake
Cowboys from Texas
Belle Starkey
Circus Girl
Carlotta
The Miracle Man
Rose
Those Who Dance
Kitty
Kick In
Molly Brandon
Woman to Woman
Louise Boucher / Deloryse
The Millionaire Kid
Gloria Neville
The Woman with Four Faces
Elizabeth West
The Pony Express
Molly Jones
Locked Doors
Mrs. Norman 'Mary Reid' Carter
The Lady Refuses
June
New Lives for Old
Olympe
Laughing Irish Eyes
Molly
West of Singapore
Lou
The Time, the Place and the Girl
Doris Ward
The Garden of Weeds
Dorothy Delbridge
The Little Minister
Lady Babbie
On With the Show!
Nita
Laughing at Danger
Mrs. Van Horn
Three Who Loved
Helga Larson Hanson
Destination Unknown
Ruby Smith
Blaze o' Glory
Helen Williams
The Great Gabbo
Mary
Cheating Cheaters
Nan Carey
Eve's Secret
Eve
Over the Border
Jen Galbraith
The Green Temptation
Genelle / Coralyn / Joan Parker
Woman to Woman
Deloryce / Lola
August Week End
Ethel Ames
Miami
Joan Bruce
Her Adventurous Night
Miss Spencer
Notorious But Nice
Millie Sprague
God's Country and the Man
Roxey Moore
Federal Bullets
Sue, Gang Moll
The Spoilers
Cherry Malotte
The Boudoir Diplomat
Helene
Ladies Must Live
Christine Bleeker
The Palace of Pleasure
Lola Montez
Religious Racketeers
Ada Bernard
She Got What She Wanted
The Silver Lining
Kate Flynn
Under the Big Top
Marie
The Bonded Woman
Angela Gaskell
Paths to Paradise
Molly
Prisoners of Love
Blanche Davis
The Drag Net
Mollie Cole
The White Flower
Konia Markham
The Masked Angel
Betty
Danger! Women at Work
Madame Sappho
The Case of Sergeant Grischa
Babka
Confessions of a Vice Baron
Mrs. Lucy Morgan (edited from Mad Youth) (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Fast Set
Margaret Sones
The Rustle of Silk
Lala De Breeze
Two Minutes to Play
'Fluff' Harding
Port of Missing Girls
Chicago
Law and the Woman
Margaret Rolfe
No Sleep on the Deep
Mrs. Eldridge
The Belle of Broadway
Marie Duval / The Young Adele
Border Raiders
Rose Hardy
Killer at Large
Kate
The Female
Dalla
Always the Woman
Celia Thaxter / Queen Neco Tokris
The Making Over of Mother
Mrs. Newlywed
For Those We Love
Bernice Arnold
The Czar of Broadway
Connie Colton
The Enemy Sex
Dodo Baxter
Court Martial
Belle Starr
The Devil's Trail
Rose
Love Me and the World Is Mine
Mitzel
Inoculating Hubby
Hubby's Night Out
Wifey
That Doggone Baby
Wifie Parker
To Have and to Hold
Lady Jocelyn Leigh
The Light of Victory
Jane Ravenslee
Counsel for the Defense
Katherine West
The Sheriff
School Teacher
At the End of the World
Cherry O'Day
As Luck Would Have It
Ramshackle House
Pen Broome
The Terror of the Range
Thelma Grant
Say It with Diamonds
Betty Howard
Temptations of a Shop Girl
Ruth Harrington
Crazy by Proxy
Life's Mockery
Kit Miller/Isabelle Fullerton