Joyce Compton
Olivia Joyce Compton was an American actress.
Biography
Compton was born in Lexington, Kentucky, the daughter of Henry and Golden Compton. After graduating high school she spent two years 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 with 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 200 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.
Awards
For her contributions to the motion picture industry, Compton was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on the south side of the 7000 block of Hollywood Boulevard.
Selected filmography
The Golden Bed as Minor Role Sally as Minor Role What Fools Men as DorothyBroadway Lady as Phyllis WestbrookSyncopating Sue as Marge AdamsAnkles Preferred as VirginiaThe Border Cavalier as Madge LawtonSoft Living as Billie WilsonThe Wild Party as Eva TuttDangerous Curves as Jennie SilverSalute as Marian WilsonThe Sky Hawk as PeggyHigh Society Blues as Pearl GrangerThe Three Sisters as CarlottaCheer Up and Smile as College Co-Ed Wild Company as Anita GraysonLightnin' as Betty - Larry's WifeNot Exactly Gentlemen as Ace's GirlThree Girls Lost as Edna BestUp Pops the Devil as Luella May CarrollWomen of All Nations as Kiki Annabelle's Affairs as MabelThe Spider as Butch's Girl Friend Good Sport as FayUnder Eighteen as SybilLena Rivers as Caroline NicholsWestward Passage as Lillie Unholy Love as Sheilla Bailey GregoryBeauty Parlor as Joan PerryLady and Gent as BettyFighting for Justice as Amy TracyA Parisian Romance as MarcelleHat Check Girl as A Party Guest False Faces as Dottie NationMadison Square Garden as JoyceAfraid to Talk as Alice - Party GirlIf I Had a Million as Marie - Waitress Luxury Liner as Girl Overboard Sing, Sinner, Sing as GwenOnly Yesterday as Margot Dream Stuff Caravan as Party Girl at Beer Garden The Trumpet Blows as Blonde on Train Affairs of a Gentleman as Foxey DennisonMillion Dollar Ransom as Millie - Hat Check Girl King Kelly of the U.S.A. as Maxine LatourImitation of Life as Young Woman at Party The White Parade as Una MellonRustlers of Red Dog as Mary LeeGo into Your Dance as Café ShowgirlMister Dynamite as Check Room Girl Let 'Em Have It as BarbaraCollege Scandal as Toby CarpenterSuicide Squad as MaryMagnificent Obsession as Nurse Valley of the Lawless as Joan JenkinsLove Before Breakfast as Mary LeeThe Harvester as Thelma BiddleTrapped by Television as Mae CollinsStar for a Night as Ellen RomaineSitting on the Moon as BlossomMurder with Pictures as Hester BooneEllis Island as AdeleUnder Your Spell as Secretary Country Gentlemen as GertieThree Smart Girls as Judson's Secretary The Awful Truth as Dixie Belle LeeChina Passage as Elaine Gentry - Customs Agent aka Mrs. Katharine 'Kate' CollinsTop of the Town as Beulah We Have Our Moments as CarrieWings Over Honolulu as CarolinePick a Star as NewlywedKid Galahad as Party Guest on Phone Rhythm in the Clouds as Amy LouBorn Reckless as Dora - at the Race Track The Toast of New York as Mary Lou Sea Racketeers as BlondieShe Asked for It as Miss Hurley Small Town Boy as Molly SummersWings Over Honolulu as Dixie Belle LeeMan-Proof as Guest Love on a Budget as Millie Brown Women Are Like That as Miss HallYou and Me as Curly BlondeSpring Madness as Sally PrescottThe Last Warning as Dawn Day aka Minnie SchultzArtists and Models Abroad as 'Chickie'Trade Winds as Mrs. JohnsonGoing Places as JoanThe Flying Irishman as Sally - a Waitress Rose of Washington Square as PeggyHotel for Women as Emeline ThomasReno as Bonnie NewcombBalalaika as Masha Escape to Paradise as Penelope CarterHoneymoon Deferred as Kitty KerryTurnabout as Irene ClareI Take This Oath as Betty CaseyThey Drive by Night as Sue Carter City for Conquest as LillySky Murder as Christine CrossThe Villain Still Pursued Her as Hazel DaltonWho Killed Aunt Maggie? as Cynthia LouLet's Make Music as BettyZiegfeld Girl as Miss Sawyer - Auditioning Showgirl Manpower as ScarlettScattergood Meets Broadway as Diana DeaneMoon Over Her Shoulder as CeciliaBlues in the Night as BlondeBedtime Story as BeulahToo Many Women as Barbara CartwrightThunder Birds as SaleswomanSilver Skates as LucilleA Gentle Gangster as Kitty ParkerLet's Face It as Wiggin's Girl Silver Spurs as Millie LoveSwing Out the Blues as Kitty GroganRoughly Speaking as Prissy Girl Pillow to Post as Gertrude Wilson Hitchhike to Happiness as Joan RandallChristmas in Connecticut as Mary LeeMildred Pierce as Waitress Danger Signal as KateDark Alibi as Emily EvansBehind the Mask as LuluNight and Day as Chorine Rendezvous with Annie as Louise GrapaThe Best Years of Our Lives as Hat Check Girl Scared to Death as Jane CornellExposed as EmmyLinda, Be Good as Mrs. LaVitteA Southern Yankee as Hortense DobsonSorry, Wrong Number as Cotterell's Blonde Girlfriend Luxury Liner Incident as Joan ManningGrand Canyon as MabelMighty Joe Young as Alice The Persuader as JulieJet Pilot as Mrs. Simpson Girl in the Woods as Aunt Martha77 Sunset Strip Television series. Season 1 episode 7 "All Our Yesterdays"