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
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
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
Under Eighteen
1932
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as Sybil
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Age: 24
The Three Sisters
1930
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as Carlotta
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Age: 23