Betty Compson (1897 - 1974)

American actress

* March 19, 1897 Beaver, Utah
 as Eleanor Luicime Compson
 April 18, 1974 Glendale, California



Vintage magazines

Mon Ciné, nr. 13, 18 May 1922
Mon Ciné, nr. 30, 14 September 1922
Picture Play Magazine, January 1922

Picture Play Magazine, January 1922
Mon Ciné, nr. 55, 8 March 1923
Mon Ciné, nr. 88, 25 October 1923

Picture Play Magazine, January 1923
Picture Play Magazine, February 1923
Picture Play Magazine, April 1923


Articles by Betty Compson

Acting in Talking Pictures, in: Bert Cardullo, Harry Geduld, Ronald Gottesman, and Leigh Woods (ed.), Playing to the Camera, New Haven and London, 1998

Books with substantial mentioning of Betty Compson

DeWitt Bodeen From Hollywood DeWitt Bodeen
From Hollywood, The Careers of 15 Great American Stars
New York - London, 1976

Cedric Osmond Bermingham (editor) Stars of the Screen 1931 Cedric Osmond Bermingham (editor)
Stars of the Screen 1931, A volume of biographies of contemporary actors and actresses engaged in photoplay throughout the world
London, [1931]

Charles Donald Fox and Milton L. Silver (eds.) Who's Who on the Screen Charles Donald Fox and Milton L. Silver (eds.)
Who's Who on the Screen
New York City, 1920


Books with photograph(s) of Betty Compson

John Richard Finch and Paul Elby Close-Ups John Richard Finch and Paul Elby
Close-Ups, From the Golden Age of the Silent Cinema
South Brunswick and New York - London, 1978

Mary Dawn Earley
Stars of the Twenties, Observed by James Abbe
New York, 1975

Films

1919
The Miracle Man
The Light of Victory
The Devil's Trail

1921
Prisoners of Love
Ladies Must Live

1922
To Have and to Hold
Kick In
Always the Woman
Over the Border

1923
Hollywood
Woman to Woman
The Royal Oak
The White Flower

1924
The Female
The White Shadow
The Enemy Sex
Ramshackle House
The Stranger

1925
New Lives for Old
Beggar on Horseback
The Prude's Fall
The Pony Express
Eve's Secret
Paths to Paradise

1926
The Palace of Pleasure

1927
Say It with Diamonds
Love Me and the World Is Mine
Temptations of a Shop Girl
Cheating Cheaters
The Ladybird

1928
The Barker
Scarlet Seas
The Big City
The Docks of New York
Court-Martial
The Desert Bride
The Masked Angel

1929
The Great Gabbo
The Show of Shows
Weary River
Skin Deep
Street Girl
The Time, the Place and the Girl
On with the Show!
Woman to Woman
Blaze o' Glory

1930
Isle of Escape
The Spoilers
Midnight Mystery
Those Who Dance
Inside the Lines
The Case of Sergeant Grischa
Czar of Broadway
The Boudoir Diplomat
She Got What She Wanted

1931
The House That Shadows Built
The Gay Diplomat
Three Who Loved
The Lady Refuses
Virtuous Husband

1932
The Silver Lining
Guilty or Not Guilty

1933
Notorious But Nice
Destination Unknown

1934
No Sleep on the Deep

1936
Hollywood Boulevard
Bulldog Edition
Killer at Large

1937
Federal Bullets
God's Country and the Man

1938
The Beloved Brat
Blondes at Work
Religious Racketeers
Port of Missing Girls
A Slight Case of Murder
Torchy Blane in Panama
Two Gun Justice

1939
Hotel Imperial
News Is Made at Night
They Asked for It
Cowboys from Texas

1940
Strange Cargo
Cafe Hostess

1941
The Invisible Ghost
Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Roar of the Press

1943
Confessions of a Vice Baron

1946
Her Adventurous Night
Claudia and David

1975
Brother Can You Spare a Dime

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