Betty Compson filmography
This page has most if not all of Betty Compson's (March 19, 1897 – April 18, 1974) known film appearances 1915–48. Films from 1915 to 1919 are shorts, mostly for Al Christie unless otherwise stated. A big breakout came in 1919 with The Miracle Man now lost. In the early-to-mid 1920s Compson was a major player at Paramount with her name above the title of her films. By the end of the decade she was free-lancing and appearing as feature and support with name below the title of the film. Her star definitely took a fall somewhere after marrying director James Cruze, and she would remain a feature support into the sound era for the rest of her film career.
Betty Compson, aboard ship 1920s.
Shorts
Betty with the Al Christie company center, left, circa 1916.
with William Desmond in The Prodigal Liar 1919.
The Devil's Trail lantern slide, 1919
The Terror of the Range, 1919, lobby poster
with Joseph J. Dowling in The Miracle Man, 1919
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sheet music cover to The Miracle Man, 1919
on the cover of Shadowland magazine February 1920
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1915 | Wanted: A Leading Lady | The Leading Lady | |
| 1915 | Their Quiet Honeymoon | Betty – 1st Newlywed | |
| 1915 | Where the Heather Blooms | Lady Mary | |
| 1915 | Love and a Savage | Betty | |
| 1915 | Some Chaperone | Betty – the 1st Daughter | |
| 1916 | Jed's Trip to the Fair | Lizzie | |
| 1916 | Mingling Spirits | Mrs. Newlywed | |
| 1916 | Her Steady Carfare | Betty | |
| 1916 | A Quiet Supper for Four | Mrs. Newlywed | |
| 1916 | When the Losers Won | Mrs. Newlywed | |
| 1916 | Her Friend, the Doctor | Mary West | |
| 1916 | Cupid Trims his Lordship | Betty – the Daughter | |
| 1916 | When Lizzie Disappeared | ||
| 1916 | The Deacon's Waterloo | Betty – the Girl | |
| 1916 | Love and Vaccination | The Doctor's Sister | |
| 1916 | A Friend, But a Star Boarder | (unconfirmed) | |
| 1916 | The Janitor's Busy Day | Betty Hammond | |
| 1916 | He Almost Eloped | Betty – Billie's Roommate | |
| 1916 | A Leap Year Tangle | Betty – One of the Girls – Eddie's Sweetheart | |
| 1916 | Eddie's Night Out | Betty Newlywed | |
| 1916 | The Newlyweds' Mix-Up | Mrs. Newlywed | |
| 1916 | Lem's College Career | Mary | |
| 1916 | Potts Bungles Again | Betty | |
| 1916 | He's a Devil | Betty – Eddie's Sweetheart | |
| 1916 | The Wooing of Aunt Jemima | Betty | |
| 1916 | Her Celluloid Hero | Betty – the Actor's Sweetheart | |
| 1916 | All Over a Stocking | The Stenographer | |
| 1916 | Wanted: A Husband | The Wife | |
| 1916 | Almost a Widow | Mrs. Gordon | |
| 1916 | The Browns See the Fair | The Train Passenger | |
| 1916 | His Baby | Betty – the Peach | |
| 1916 | Inoculating Hubby | Wifie | |
| 1916 | Those Primitive Days | Heela Hoola | |
| 1916 | The Making Over of Mother | Mrs. Newlywed | |
| 1916 | He Wouldn't Tip | The Pippin | |
| 1916 | That Doggone Bab | Wifie Parker | |
| 1916 | He Loved the Ladies | Mrs. Gordon | |
| 1916 | When Clubs Were Trumps | Wifie Parker | |
| 1916 | Dad's Masterpiece | Betty Morton | |
| 1916 | Nearly a Hero | Betty – the Sheriff's Daughter | |
| 1916 | A Brass-Buttoned Romance | ||
| 1916 | Her Sun-Kissed Hero | The Peach | |
| 1916 | Some Kid | ||
| 1916 | Sea Nymphs | Betty – the Wife | |
| 1916 | Hist! At Six O'Clock | Tillie de Vamp | |
| 1916 | Cupid's Uppercut | Betty | |
| 1916 | Lovers and Lunatics | Betty Grey | |
| 1917 | Her Crooked Career | The Girl | |
| 1917 | Her Friend, the Chauffeur | The Girl | |
| 1917 | Small Change | The Girl | |
| 1917 | Hubby's Night Out | Wifey | |
| 1917 | Out for the Coin | ||
| 1917 | As Luck Would Have It | ||
| 1917 | Sauce for the Goose | ||
| 1917 | Suspended Sentence | ||
| 1917 | Father's Bright Idea | ||
| 1917 | His Last Pill | ||
| 1917 | Those Wedding Bells | ||
| 1917 | Almost a Scandal | ||
| 1917 | A Bold, Bad Knight | ||
| 1917 | Five Little Widows | Betty Morgan | |
| 1917 | Down by the Sea | ||
| 1917 | Won in a Cabaret | ||
| 1917 | A Smoky Love Affair | ||
| 1917 | Crazy by Proxy | ||
| 1917 | Betty's Big Idea | ||
| 1917 | Almost a Bigamist | ||
| 1917 | Love and Locksmiths | ||
| 1917 | Nearly a Papa | Mrs. Gordon | |
| 1917 | Almost Divorced | ||
| 1917 | Betty Wakes Up | Sally | |
| 1917 | Their Seaside Tangle | ||
| 1917 | Help! Help! Police! | ||
| 1917 | Cupid's Camouflage | Betty | |
| 1918 | Many a Slip | ||
| 1918 | Whose Wife? | ||
| 1918 | Circumstantial Evidence | ||
| 1918 | Here Comes the Groom | (unconfirmed) | |
| 1918 | Somebody's Baby | ||
| 1918 | Betty's Adventure | Betty | |
| 1918 | Never Surprise Your Wife | ||
| 1918 | All Dressed Up | ||
| 1918 | The Sheriff | School teacher | |
| 1922 | A Trip to Paramountown | Herself | |
| 1931 | Hollywood Halfbacks | Herself | |
| 1934 | No Sleep on the Deep | Mrs. Eldridge | |
| 1934 | The Watchman Takes a Wife | Molly Clyde |
Features
Betty Compson, 1921
Betty Compson, 1921
At the End of the World 1921
Photoplay magazine cover June 1922.
Movie Weekly July 29, 1922
The Rustle of Silk 1923
The Enemy Sex lobby card, 1924
The Female, lobby card, 1924
Silent Films: 1918–1929
| Year | Title | Role | Studio | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1918 | The Border Raiders | Rose Hardy | Pathé | |
| 1919 | Terror of the Range | Thelma Grant | Pathé | Film serial Lost |
| The Prodigal Liar | Hope Deering | Lost | ||
| The Light of Victory | Jane Ravenslee | Lost | ||
| The Little Diplomat | Phyllis Dare | Lost | ||
| The Devil's Trail | Rose | World Film | Lost | |
| The Miracle Man | Rose | Paramount | Majority lost; two fragments survive | |
| 1921 | Prisoners of Love | Blanche Davis | Goldwyn | Lost Also produced |
| For Those We Love | Bernice Arnold | Goldwyn | Lost Also produced | |
| At the End of the World | Cherry O'Day | Paramount | ||
| Ladies Must Live | Christine Bleeker | Paramount | Lost film | |
| The Little Minister | Lady Babbie | Paramount | ||
| 1922 | The Law and the Woman | Margaret Rolfe | Paramount | Lost |
| The Green Temptation | Genelle/Coralyn/Joan Parker | Paramount | Lost | |
| Over the Border | Jen Galbriath | Paramount | Lost | |
| Always the Woman | Celia Thaxter | Goldwyn | Incomplete | |
| The Bonded Woman | Angela Gaskell | Paramount | ||
| To Have and to Hold | Lady Jocelyn Leigh | Paramount | Lost | |
| Kick In | Molly Brandon | Paramount | ||
| 1923 | The White Flower | Konia Markham | Paramount | Lost |
| The Rustle of Silk | Lala De Breeze | Paramount | Lost | |
| The Woman With Four Faces | Elizabeth West | Paramount | Lost | |
| Hollywood | Herself | Paramount | Lost film | |
| Woman to Woman | Louise Boucher/Deloryse | Woolf & Freedman | Lost Uncredited assistant director Alfred Hitchcock | |
| The Royal Oak | Lady Mildred Cholmondeley | Stoll | Lost | |
| 1924 | The Stranger | Peggy Bowlin | Paramount | Lost |
| Miami | Joan Bruce | W. W. Hodkinson | Lost | |
| Dangerous Virtue | Screenplay by Alfred Hitchcock | |||
| The White Shadow | Nancy Brent/Georgina Brent | Woolf & Freedman | Incomplete Uncredited assistant director Alfred Hitchcock | |
| The Enemy Sex | Dodo Baxter | Paramount | Married director James Cruze | |
| The Female | Dalla | Paramount | Lost | |
| Ramshackle House | Pen Broome | PDC | Lost | |
| The Fast Set | Margaret Stone | Paramount | Lost | |
| The Garden of Weeds | Dorothy Delbridge | Paramount | Lost | |
| 1925 | Locked Doors | Mrs. Norman 'Mary Reid' Carter | Paramount | Lost |
| New Lives for Old | Olympe | Paramount | Lost | |
| Eve's Secret | Eve | Paramount | ||
| Beggar on Horseback | Princess in Pantomime | Paramount | Incomplete | |
| Paths to Paradise | Molly | Paramount | ||
| The Pony Express | Molly Jones | Paramount | ||
| Counsel for the Defense | Katherine West | Associated Exhibitions | Lost | |
| 1926 | The Palace of Pleasure | Lola Montez | Fox | Lost |
| The Wise Guy | Hula Kate | First National | ||
| The Belle of Broadway | Marie Duval/The Young Adele | Columbia | ||
| 1927 | The Ladybird | Diane Wyman | Chadwick | |
| Say It with Diamonds | Betty Howard | Chadwick | ||
| Temptations of a Shop Girl | Ruth Harrington | Chadwick | Lost | |
| Love Me and the World Is Mine | Mitzel | Universal | ||
| Cheating Cheaters | Nan Carey | Universal | Lost | |
| 1928 | The Big City | Helen | MGM | Lost; Trailer survives |
| The Desert Bride | Diane Duval | Columbia | Lost | |
| The Masked Angel | Betty | Chadwick | Lost | |
| Life's Mockery | Kit Miller/Isabelle Fullerton | Chadwick | ||
| Court Martial | Belle Starr | Columbia | ||
| The Docks of New York | Mae | Paramount | ||
| 1929 | Scarlet Seas | Rose | First National | |
Sound Films: 1928–1931
Scarlet Seas, 1928, released with music and sound effects
Virtuous Husband, 1931
| Year | Title | Role | Studio | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1928 | The Barker | Carrie | First National | Part-talkie; Nomination—Academy Award for Best Actress |
| 1929 | Weary River | Alice Gray | First National | Part-talkie |
| On with the Show | Nita | Warner Bros. | Filmed in Technicolor;first all-talking, all-color picture; survives in black and white | |
| The Time, the Place and the Girl | Doris Ward | Warner Bros. | Lost | |
| Street Girl | Frederika Joyzelle | RKO | First film made by RKO | |
| Skin Deep | Sadie Rogers | Warner Bros. | Lost | |
| The Great Gabbo | Mary | Sono Art-World | Originally contained sequences in Multicolor | |
| Woman to Woman | Deloryce/Lola | Gainsborough | ||
| The Show of Shows | Herself | Warner Bros. | Originally shot in Technicolor | |
| Blaze o' Glory | Helen Williams | Sono Art-World | Lost; Soundtrack survives | |
| 1930 | The Case of Sergeant Grischa | Babka | RKO | Lost |
| Isle of Escape | Stella | Warner Bros. | Lost; Fragment totalling 40 seconds survives | |
| Those Who Dance | Kitty | Warner Bros. | ||
| The Czar of Broadway | Connie Colton | Universal | ||
| Midnight Mystery | Sally Wayne | RKO | ||
| Inside the Lines | Jane Gershon | RKO | ||
| The Spoilers | Cherry Malotte | Paramount | ||
| She Got What She Wanted | Mahyna | Tiffany | Lost | |
| The Boudoir Diplomat | Helene | Universal | ||
| 1931 | The Lady Refuses | June | RKO | |
| The Virtuous Husband | Inez Wakefield | Universal | ||
| Three Who Loved | Helga Larson Hanson | RKO | ||
| The Gay Diplomat | Baroness Alma Corri | RKO | ||
Films 1932–1948
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1932 | The Silver Lining | Kate Flynn | |
| Guilty or Not Guilty | Maizie | Lost | |
| 1933 | West of Singapore | Lou | Lost |
| Destination Unknown | Ruby Smith | ||
| Notorious But Nice | Millie Sprague | ||
| 1935 | Manhattan Butterfly | ||
| False Pretenses | Clarissa Stanhope | ||
| 1936 | August Weekend | Ethel Ames | |
| Laughing Irish Eyes | Molly | ||
| The Millionaire Kid | Gloria Neville | ||
| The Drag-Net | Mollie Cole | ||
| Hollywood Boulevard | Betty | ||
| Bulldog Edition | Billie Blake aka Aggie | ||
| Killer at Large | Kate | ||
| Two Minutes to Play | 'Fluff' Harding | ||
| 1937 | Circus Girl | Carlotta | |
| God's Country and the Man | Roxey Moore | ||
| Federal Bullets | Sue, Gang Moll | ||
| 1938 | Blondes at Work | Blanche Revelle | |
| The Port of Missing Girls | Chicago | ||
| A Slight Case of Murder | Loretta | ||
| Torchy Blane in Panama | Kitty | ||
| Two Gun Justice | Kate | ||
| The Beloved Brat | Eleanor Sparks | uncredited | |
| Religious Racketeers | Ada Bernard | ||
| Under the Big Top | Marie | ||
| 1939 | Hotel Imperial | Soubrette | uncredited |
| News Is Made at Night | Kitty Truman | ||
| Cowboys from Texas | Belle Starkey | ||
| 1940 | Cafe Hostess | Cafe Hostess | Uncredited |
| Strange Cargo | Suzanne | Uncredited | |
| Mad Youth | Lucy Morgan | ||
| Laughing at Danger | Mrs. Van Horn | ||
| 1941 | Mr. & Mrs. Smith | Gertie | |
| Roar of the Press | Mrs. Thelma Tate | ||
| Invisible Ghost | Mrs. Kessler | ||
| Zis Boom Bah | Mame | Uncredited | |
| Escort Girl | Ruth Ashley | ||
| 1943 | Danger! Women at Work | Madame Sappho | |
| 1946 | Claudia and David | Uncredited | |
| Her Adventurous Night | Miss Spencer | ||
| 1947 | Hard Boiled Mahoney | Selena Webster | |
| Second Chance | Mrs. Davenport | ||
| 1948 | Here Comes Trouble | Martha Blake |
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