Joyce Compton
Acting
🎂 1907-01-27
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 RÃo, 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.
Cast credits(143)
Waitress
1957
1956
1960
Girl at Drivers License Bureau
1952
Mae Collins
1936
Kitty Kerry
1940
Joan Randall
1945
Waitress (uncredited)
1945
Hat Check Girl (uncredited)
1946
Scarlett
1941
Gwen
1933
Lilly
1940
Penelope Carter
1939
Mary Lou Simpson
1957
Dixie Belle Lee
1937
Amy Tracy
1932
Hortense Dobson
1948
Chickie
1938
Dora
1937
Alice (uncredited)
1949
Sally
1939
Millie Love
1943
Beulah
1941
Betty
1933
Barbara Cartwright
1942
Cotterell's Blonde Girlfriend (uncredited)
1948
Madge Lawton
1928
Joan Manning
1948
Mary O'Connor
1935
Foxey Dennison
1934
Nurse Mary Lee
1945
Jane Cornell
1947
Betty - Larry's Wife
1930
Miss Compton
1935
Sally
1938
Miss Sawyer, Auditioning Showgirl (uncredited)
1941
Mary Lee
1936
Lulu
1946
Betty Casey
1940
Mary Lee
1935
Mabel
1931
Caroline
1937
Marie - Waitress (uncredited)
1932
Dawn Day aka Minnie Schultz
1938
Wiggin's Girl (uncredited)
1943
Wiggin's Girl
1943
Alice - Party Girl
1932
Evans' Secretary
1936
Edna Best
1931
Caroline Nichols
1932
Pearl Granger
1930
Diana Deane
1941
Jennie Taylor, Eddie's Wife
1934
Sheilla Bailey Gregory
1932
Aunt Martha
1958
Dorothy
1925
Luella May Carroll
1931
Butch's Girl Friend (uncredited)
1931
Elaine Gentry
1937
Blondie
1937
(uncredited)
1937
Marian Wilson
1929
Emeline Thomas
1939
Dorothy
1933
Christine Cross / Her Twin Sister
1940
Ellen Romaine
1936
Toby Carpenter
1935
Betty
1932
Barbara
1935
Joan Jenkins
1936
Blossom
1936
Millie, Hat Check Girl (Uncredited)
1934
Julie
1957
Benchley's girlfriend
1938
Peggy
1929
Mrs. Johnson
1938
Café Showgirl
1935
Joan
1938
Curly Blonde
1938
Betty
1941
Joyce
1932
Eva 'Evie' Tutt
1929
Bonnie Newcomb
1939
Peggy
1939
Tourist
1939
Thelma Biddle
1936
Gertie
1936
Gertrude Wilson (uncredited)
1945
Hazel Dalton
1940
Fay
1931
Sybil
1932
Lillie, the Model (uncredited)
1932
Jennie Silver
1929
Marcelle
1932
Emmy
1947
Mary Lou (uncredited)
1937
Marge Adams
1926
Lucille
1943
Party Girl at Beer Garden (Uncredited)
1934
Margot (Uncredited)
1933
Hester Boone
1936
Masha
1939
Ace's girl
1931
Mrs. LaVitte
1947
Millie Brown
1938
Kitty Grogan
1943
Sue Carter (uncredited)
1940
Kate
1945
Dottie Nation
1932
Newlywed
1937
Joyce
1935
Girl Overboard (uncredited)
1933
Irene Clare
1940
Young Woman at Party (uncredited)
1934
Carlotta
1930
Maxine LaTour
1934
Una Mellon
1934
Louise
1933
Emily Evans
1946
Joyce
1935
Miss Hall
1938
Molly Summers
1937
Beulah
1937
Louise Grapa (uncredited)
1946
Betty
1933
Joan Perry
1932
Saleswoman
1942
Kiki
1931
Billie Wilson
1928
Madge Lawton
1927
Virginia
1927
Cynthia Lou
1940
Cecilia
1941
Secretary (uncredited)
1936
Anita Grayson
1930
Blonde
1941
Receptionist
1937
Phyllis Westbrook
1925
Adele
1936
Mabel
1949
Carrie
1937
Mrs. Scissors Jackson
1933
Mrs. Nunnally LaVitte
1953