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