Joyce Compton
Born January 27, 1907 (Age: 119)
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Lexington, Kentucky, USA
Biography
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 Río, 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.
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 Río, 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.
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Filmography
Girl in the Woods
1958
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as Aunt Martha
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Age: 51
I Was a Burlesque Queen
1953
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as Mrs. Nunnally LaVitte
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Age: 46
Danger Signal
1945
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as Kate
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Age: 38
Mildred Pierce
1945
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as Waitress (uncredited)
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Age: 38
Christmas in Connecticut
1945
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as Nurse Mary Lee
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Age: 38
Hitchhike to Happiness
1945
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as Joan Randall
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Age: 38
Pillow to Post
1945
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as Gertrude Wilson (uncredited)
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Age: 38
Thunder Birds
1942
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as Saleswoman
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Age: 35
Too Many Women
1942
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as Barbara Cartwright
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Age: 35
Bedtime Story
1941
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as Beulah
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Age: 34
Blues in the Night
1941
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as Blonde
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Age: 34
Moon Over Her Shoulder
1941
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as Cecilia
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Age: 34
Scattergood Meets Broadway
1941
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as Diana Deane
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Age: 34
Manpower
1941
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as Scarlett
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Age: 34
Ziegfeld Girl
1941
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as Miss Sawyer, Auditioning Showgirl (uncredited)
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Age: 34
Let's Make Music
1941
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as Betty
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Age: 33
If I Had a Million
1932
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as Marie - Waitress (uncredited)
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Age: 25
Afraid to Talk
1932
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as Alice - Party Girl
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Age: 25
Madison Square Garden
1932
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as Joyce
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Age: 25
False Faces
1932
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as Dottie Nation
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Age: 25
No Image
A Parisian Romance
1932
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as Marcelle
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Age: 25
Fighting for Justice
1932
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as Amy Tracy
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Age: 25
Lady and Gent
1932
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as Betty
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Age: 25
Beauty Parlor
1932
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as Joan Perry
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Age: 25
Unholy Love
1932
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as Sheilla Bailey Gregory
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Age: 25
Westward Passage
1932
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as Lillie, the Model (uncredited)
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Age: 25
Lena Rivers
1932
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as Caroline Nichols
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Age: 25
Under Eighteen
1932
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as Sybil
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Age: 24
Good Sport
1931
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as Fay
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Age: 24
The Spider
1931
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as Butch's Girl Friend (uncredited)
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Age: 24
Annabelle's Affairs
1931
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as Mabel
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Age: 24
Women of All Nations
1931
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as Kiki
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Age: 24
Up Pops the Devil
1931
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as Luella May Carroll
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Age: 24
Three Girls Lost
1931
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as Edna Best
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Age: 24
Three Rogues
1931
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as Ace's girl
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Age: 24
Lightnin'
1930
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as Betty - Larry's Wife
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Age: 23
Wild Company
1930
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as Anita Grayson
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Age: 23
The Three Sisters
1930
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as Carlotta
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Age: 23
High Society Blues
1930
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as Pearl Granger
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Age: 23