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Betty Compson

Betty Compson

Highest Rated: 100% Paths to Paradise (1925)

Lowest Rated: 65% Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1941)

Birthday: Mar 19, 1897

Birthplace: Beaver, Utah, USA

Petite, fair-haired, beautiful and highly-paid leading lady of the silent era. Billed in vaudeville as 'The Vagabond Violinist', Compson was signed in 1915 for a series of Al Christie comedy shorts. She made her dramatic debut as a member of a confidence gang in "The Miracle Man" (1919) and went on to star in dozens of films both in the USA and England (among them "The Little Minister," "Rustle of Silk," "The White Flower," "Wise Guy" and "Twelve Miles Out"). She was memorable as a dejected prostitute rescued from suicide in Josef von Sternberg's highly stylized "Docks of New York" (1928), as the assistant to a mad ventriloquist (Erich Von Stroheim) in her then-husband, James Cruze's "The Great Gabbo" (1929) and in Hitchcock's "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" (1941).

Highest rated movies

100% Paths to Paradise
88% Beggar on Horseback
71% The Great Gabbo
67% The White Shadow
65% Mr. and Mrs. Smith

Photos

HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD, Betty Compson, 1936 THE SHOW OF SHOWS, Betty Compson, 1929 WEARY RIVER, from left, Betty Compson, Richard Barthelmess, 1929 WOMAN TO WOMAN, Betty Compson, 1923 THE GREEN TEMPTATION, Betty Compson, 1922 ESCORT GIRL, Margaret Marquis, Betty Compson, Wheeler Oakman, 1941 THE MIRACLE MAN, Betty Compson, Thomas Meighan, 1919 THE LAW AND THE WOMAN, Betty Compson, 1922 THE SPOILERS, Betty Compson, Gary Cooper, 1930 PORT OF MISSING GIRLS, Judith Allen, Milburn Stone, Jane Jones, Harry Carey, Betty Compson, 1938 BLAZE O' GLORY, Betty Compson, Eddie Dowling, Frankie Darro, 1929 THE LAW AND THE WOMAN, Betty Compson, 1922 THE MIRACLE MAN, Lon Chaney, Betty Compson, 1919 THE MIRACLE MAN, Lon Chaney, Thomas Meighan, J.M. Dumont, Betty Compson, 1919 THE DOCKS OF NEW YORK, Betty Compson, George Bancroft, 1928 LADIES MUST LIVE, from left, Betty Compson, Gibson Gowland, Marcia Manon, 1921 SCARLET SEAS, Betty Compson, 1928 WEARY RIVER, from left: Betty Compson, Richard Barthelmess, 1929 THE SPOILERS, Betty Compson, Gary Cooper, 1930 ON WITH THE SHOW!, Betty Compson, Louise Fazenda, 1929
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Here Comes Trouble Martha Blake (Character) - 1948
No Score Yet No Score Yet Hard Boiled Mahoney Selena Webster (Character) - 1947
No Score Yet No Score Yet Confessions of a Vice Baron Mrs. Lucy Morgan (Character) - 1943
65% 48% Mr. and Mrs. Smith Gertie (Character) - 1941
No Score Yet No Score Yet Roar of the Press Mrs. Thelma Tate (Character) - 1941
No Score Yet 40% Escort Girl Unknown (Character) - 1941
No Score Yet 29% The Invisible Ghost Mrs. Kessler (Character) - 1941
No Score Yet 38% Mad Youth Lucy Morgan (Character) - 1940
No Score Yet No Score Yet Religious Racketeers Ada Bernard (Character) - 1939
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mystic Circle Murder Ada Bernard (Character) - 1939
No Score Yet No Score Yet Cowboys From Texas Belle Starkey (Character) - 1939
No Score Yet No Score Yet Blondes at Work Blanche Revelle (Character) - 1938
No Score Yet No Score Yet Under the Big Top Marie (Character) - 1938
No Score Yet No Score Yet Torchy Blane in Panama Kitty (Character) - 1938
No Score Yet No Score Yet Port of Missing Girls Chicago (Character) - 1938
No Score Yet No Score Yet Two Minutes to Play "Fluff" Harding (Character) - 1937
No Score Yet No Score Yet God's Country and the Man Roxey Moore (Character) - 1937
No Score Yet No Score Yet Circus Girl Carlotta (Character) - 1937
No Score Yet No Score Yet Millionaire Kid Gloria Neville (Character) - 1937
No Score Yet No Score Yet August Week-end Ethel Ames (Character) - 1936
No Score Yet No Score Yet Wild Weekend Ethel Ames (Character) - 1936
No Score Yet No Score Yet False Pretenses Clarissa Stanhope (Character) - 1935
No Score Yet No Score Yet Destination Unknown Ruby Smith (Character) - 1933
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Silver Lining Kate Flynn (Character) - 1932
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Drag-Net Mollie Cole (Character) - 1931
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Lady Refuses June (Character) - 1931
No Score Yet No Score Yet Three Who Loved Helga Larson Hanson (Character) - 1931
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Gay Diplomat Baroness Alma Corri (Character) - 1931
No Score Yet No Score Yet She Got What She Wanted Mahyna (Character) - 1930
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Case of Sergeant Grischa Babka (Character) - 1930
No Score Yet No Score Yet Inside the Lines Jane Gershon (Character) - 1930
No Score Yet No Score Yet Those Who Dance Kitty (Character) - 1930
No Score Yet No Score Yet Midnight Mystery Sally Wayne (Character) - 1930
No Score Yet 44% Weary River Alice Gray (Character) - 1929
71% 48% The Great Gabbo Mary (Character) - 1929
No Score Yet No Score Yet Woman to Woman Deloryce / Lola (Character) - 1929
No Score Yet No Score Yet On With the Show Nita (Character) - 1929
No Score Yet 83% Street Girl Frederika Joyzelle (Character) - 1929
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Docks of New York Mae (Character) - 1928
No Score Yet No Score Yet Court Martial Belle Starr (Character) - 1928
No Score Yet No Score Yet Scarlet Seas Rose (Character) - 1928
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Barker Carrie (Character) - 1928
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Belle of Broadway Marie Duval/The Young Adele (Character) - 1926
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Pony Express Molly Jones (Character) - 1925
100% No Score Yet Paths to Paradise Molly (Character) - 1925
88% No Score Yet Beggar on Horseback Princess in Pantomime (Character) - 1925
67% 29% The White Shadow Nancy Brent / Georgina Brent (Character) - 1924
No Score Yet No Score Yet At the End of the World Unknown (Character) - 1921