Betty Compson
Ezaguna: Acting
Urtebetetzea: 1897-03-17
Jaioterria: Beaver, Utah, USA
Ezaguna ere: Eleanor Luicime Compson, ベティ・カンプソン
The Docks of New York
A blue-collar worker on New York's depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woman attempting suicide.
Askatu : 1928.09.16Ospea : 8.31
She Got What She Wanted
Mahyna, a dissatisfied Russian peasant girl, marries Boris and comes to New York in search of "the soul of love," only to become a drudge in their...
Askatu : 1930.11.09Ospea : 0.809
The Time, the Place and the Girl
A musical comedy that follows the progress of a college All America football player whose swollen head is deflated when, after graduating , he takes...
Askatu : 1929.07.07Ospea : 0.907
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Happily married for three years, Ann and David Smith live in New York. One morning Ann asks David if he had to do it over again, would he marry her?...
Askatu : 1941.01.31Ospea : 12.286
Cheating Cheaters
Nan Carey ( Betty Compson ), a shoplifter, is caught by the police but acquitted through the influence of Lazare ( Lucien Littlefield ), a crooked...
Askatu : 1927.12.05Ospea : 1.126
Hollywood
Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her...
Askatu : 1923.08.19Ospea : 2.477
Over the Border
Jen Galbraith is in love with Sgt. Tom Flaherty of the Royal Mounted. She is the daughter of Peter Galbraith, who is engaged in smuggling moonshine...
Askatu : 1922.06.04Ospea : 0.5
The Woman with Four Faces
The woman with four faces is a movie about a woman who happens to be both a thief and a con artist and who cannot be arrested because she is faceless.
Askatu : 1923.06.24Ospea : 1.604
The Wise Guy
A carnival huckster who decides to turn pennies into dollars by passing himself off as a hellfire-and-brimstone evangelist.
Askatu : 1926.05.23Ospea : 0.952
For Those We Love
Berenice Arnold spends her time trying to keep her family happy. This is easier said than done -- her brother, Jimmy, is a gambler and he steals 80...
Askatu : 1921.09.01Ospea : 1.172
Prisoners of Love
Blanche Henry, a vivacious young woman, finds what she believes is true love with a handsome young man, but then learns that he has designs on her...
Askatu : 1921.01.16Ospea : 1.47
The Garden of Weeds
The title refers to the estate owned by Flagg, a man of great wealth and few morals. He installs chorus girls there until he grows tired of them
Askatu : 1924.11.02Ospea : 0.487
Strange Cargo
Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure.
Askatu : 1940.03.01Ospea : 5.302
The Barker
A successful carnival barker deals with the arrival of his eager son, who he'd hoped would stay far from the carnival world, his son's entanglement...
Askatu : 1928.10.02Ospea : 1.713
The Devil's Trail
Whiskey smuggler Dubec, trades liquor to the Indians, takes revenge on the Royal North West Mounted Police pursuing him by killing the wife of post...
Askatu : 1919.06.16Ospea : 1.054
Street Girl
A homeless and destitute violinist joins a combo to bring it success, but has problems with her love life.
Askatu : 1929.08.21Ospea : 2.085
Locked Doors
A young woman marries a man several years her senior to provide a comfortable home for her invalid father and then feels the call of youth and falls...
Askatu : 1925.01.05Ospea : 3.09
The White Shadow
The White Shadow is a British drama film directed by Graham Cutts based on the novel "Children of Chance" by Michael Morton. Alfred Hitchcock worked...
Askatu : 1924.05.05Ospea : 2.537
The Lady Refuses
A wealthy London nobleman hires a pretty but poor young woman to distract his playboy son from marrying a golddigger. Complications ensue when the...
Askatu : 1931.03.08Ospea : 8.08
The Great Gabbo
For the ventriloquist Gabbo his wooden dummy Otto is the only means of expression. When he starts relying more and more on Otto, he starts going mad.
Askatu : 1929.09.12Ospea : 3.542
On With the Show!
With unpaid actors and staff, the stage show Phantom Sweetheart seems doomed. To complicate matters, the box office takings have been robbed and the...
Askatu : 1929.07.13Ospea : 1.56
Destination Unknown
A group of people are stuck on a schooner in the middle of the Pacific with no wind.
Askatu : 1933.04.01Ospea : 1.068
Woman to Woman
While on leave in WW I France an English officer and French cabaret star fall in love with one another and plan to marry. However, he is recalled to...
Askatu : 1929.11.01Ospea : 2.132
Blondes at Work
When a rival newspaper publisher complains to his captain about possible collusion between himself and reporter Torchy Blane on scooping her rivals...
Askatu : 1938.02.05Ospea : 4.445
Here Comes Trouble
A blundering rookie reporter runs into some unexpected difficulty when he is assigned to cover the police beat.
Askatu : 1948.03.15Ospea : 3.43
False Pretenses
A girl who's just lost her job meets a drunk millionaire on a bridge who's just lost his money. They go back to his house, and eventually come up...
Askatu : 1935.10.21Ospea : 3.837
Paths to Paradise
Two thieves discover a professional and personal relationship when individual heist plans are thrown together by circumstance.
Askatu : 1925.06.28Ospea : 1.133
Torchy Blane in Panama
Torchy, Steve, and Gahagan are on the trail of a bank robber aboard an ocean liner traveling from New York to L.A. via the Panama Canal.
Askatu : 1938.05.07Ospea : 4.16
The Case of Sergeant Grischa
This film earned an Oscar nomination for Sound Recording. It is the only film nominated in this category that is among the lost. No negative or print...
Askatu : 1930.02.23Ospea : 4.047
Cowboys from Texas
Cowboys from Texas is a 1939 American Western "Three Mesquiteers" B-movie directed by George Sherman.Texas has opened up land for homesteaders. Clay...
Askatu : 1939.11.29Ospea : 1.862
Notorious But Nice
A lover selflessly steps aside to let her guy go so he can hook up with a rich dame. Sadly, the goodie good girl ends up marrying some scum bag...
Askatu : 1933.08.04Ospea : 5.264
Escort Girl
A pair of nightclub owners run a string of escort bureaus where men pay for the "companionship" of young women. The district attorney sends an...
Askatu : 1941.11.04Ospea : 1.571
Bulldog Edition
Two rival newspapers are engaged in a circulation battle, complicated by the fact that a vicious gangster inserts himself into the middle of it. Also...
Askatu : 1936.09.13Ospea : 1.02
The Millionaire Kid
The Millionaire Kid is young Tommy Neville whose wealthy parents, Thomas and Gloria Neville are preparing to fight it out in divorce court.Tommy runs...
Askatu : 1936.03.13Ospea : 2.001
August Week End
At a high-society dinner party, a wealthy, older and married man sets his sights on a beautiful young girl who's loved by a younger and...
Askatu : 1936.02.17Ospea : 2.99
The Drag-Net
A playboy takes a job as an assistant district attorney, finds himself up against a tough crime boss and his gang.
Askatu : 1936.04.15Ospea : 1.894
Circus Girl
A jealous trapeze star decides he must eliminate his romantic rival.
Askatu : 1937.03.01Ospea : 1.245
Crazy by Proxy
A young man is about to marry; it is the dawn of his wedding morn. The bride-to-be is also present; but while she eagerly pursues preparations for...
Askatu : 1917.09.12Ospea : 0.617
The Gay Diplomat
Captain Orloff is sent to Bucharest to capture a Mata Hari type of spy, but many different women fit the bill and are attractive enough to make one...
Askatu : 1931.08.22Ospea : 2.868
Under the Big Top
Director Karl Brown's 1938 circus drama stars Marjorie Main as a tough, fur-coat-wearing circus boss who raises her orphaned niece to be a trapeze...
Askatu : 1938.08.31Ospea : 3.44
Hotel Imperial
It is the fate of a small frontier town, adjoining the no-man's-land where the Russians and Austrians are fighting out one of the final campaigns of...
Askatu : 1939.05.11Ospea : 3.318
Weary River
A gangster is put in prison, but finds salvation through music while serving his time. Again on the outside, he finds success elusive and temptations...
Askatu : 1929.02.10Ospea : 5.743
Three Who Loved
A bank teller's love life falls apart when he's accused of embezzling.
Askatu : 1931.07.03Ospea : 2.986
The Belle of Broadway
Madame Adele, once a great star of the Paris theatre, has fallen upon hard times. But she allows a young American performer, Marie Duval, to perform...
Askatu : 1926.08.15Ospea : 0.428
Guilty or Not Guilty
Ruth Payne, innocent to begin with, is trying to extradite herself from the clutches of a gang-mob who obtained her release from prison on a...
Askatu : 1932.11.15Ospea : 3.199
West of Singapore
Tropical "heat" drives a man into the arms of a disreputable tramp, making things tough for the woman who really loves him.
Askatu : 1933.01.31Ospea : 2.09
Religious Racketeers
A wealthy young woman, racked with guilt because she wasn't there when her mother died, is so desperate to contact her that she gets involved with a...
Askatu : 1938.07.07Ospea : 1.187
Port of Missing Girls
Nightclub singer Della Mason witnesses a murder and is forced by the killer to flee with him from the scene of the crime. Escaping from the gangster,...
Askatu : 1938.02.24Ospea : 1.415
Hubby's Night Out
Neal hates to give up his evenings with "the boys." even for his wife Betty. She gets a burglar scare and insists on his staying home. However, he...
Askatu : 1917.02.20Ospea : 0.205
Inside the Lines
During World War I, German spies will stop at nothing to spy on the allied war plans stored at Gibraltar.
Askatu : 1930.07.05Ospea : 1.997
A Trip to Paramountown
Documentary short film depicting the filmmaking activity at the Paramount Studios in Hollywood, featuring dozens of stars captured candidly and at...
Askatu : 1922.07.10Ospea : 2.044
The Miracle Man
A gang of crooks evade the police by moving their operations to a small town. There the gang's leader encounters a faith healer and uses him to scam...
Askatu : 1919.08.26Ospea : 1.542
The Czar of Broadway
Mort Bradley, New York political boss and underworld czar, controls not only the city's most popular nightclub but also much of the press; however,...
Askatu : 1930.05.25Ospea : 1.131
Say It with Diamonds
American silent drama film following an early Vitagraph leading man and matinee idol. Prints of the film are held at the Library of Congress and...
Askatu : 1927.06.02Ospea : 0.588
Invisible Ghost
The town's leading citizen becomes a homicidal maniac after his wife deserts him.
Askatu : 1941.04.25Ospea : 8.131
Woman to Woman
David Compton leaves his expecting French girl-friend Louise Boucher, a dancer at the Moulin Rouge, for the war where he looses his memory. Building...
Askatu : 1923.01.02Ospea : 0.973
Beggar on Horseback
Neil McRae, an impoverished composer, loves Cynthia Mason, but, fearing poverty, proposes to wealthy Gladys Cady. Can he compose himself and find the...
Askatu : 1925.06.05Ospea : 1.898
Danger! Women at Work
Three women inherit a 10-ton truck and decide to go into business. Hi jinks ensue.
Askatu : 1943.08.23Ospea : 1.873
The Making Over of Mother
Neal and Betty are newlywed when her father dies. Betty goes to visit her mother and decides to take her to live with them. Neal, who has never met...
Askatu : 1916.10.15Ospea : 1.383
Two Minutes to Play
Martin Granville Jr., a star track-and-field athlete, has intentions of going to Claxton College, but changes his mind when he meets Pat Meredith, a...
Askatu : 1936.11.02Ospea : 1.227
Midnight Mystery
A fog-shrouded house provides the setting for this early talkies thriller.
Askatu : 1930.06.01Ospea : 1.826
Scarlet Seas
A sea captain comes to rescue of a prostitute in Shanghai, who is being run out of town. He takes her aboard his ship and heads out to sea. Not long...
Askatu : 1928.01.12Ospea : 1.317
Mad Youth
A rich society mother hires a male escort, but he falls for her daughter instead. The mother-daughter conflict forces the daughter to run off to stay...
Askatu : 1940.05.05Ospea : 1.386
The Green Temptation
Genelle and Gaspard operate an itinerant Parisian theatre in which the greatest profits are realized by picking the pockets of the audience and...
Askatu : 1922.04.01Ospea : 0.77
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
Among the pieces featured in Fragments are the final reel of John Ford's The Village Blacksmith (1922) and a glimpse at Emil Jannings in The Way of...
Askatu : 2011.04.03Ospea : 2.654
News Is Made at Night
Newspaper editor (Foster) will do almost anything to increase circulation. He campaigns to free a condemned man while accusing a wealthy ex-criminal...
Askatu : 1939.07.20Ospea : 1.452
Hard Boiled Mahoney
Sach just lost his job as an assistant to a private detective, but he wasn't paid. Slip goes with him down to the detective's office to demand...
Askatu : 1947.05.10Ospea : 3.896
Two Gun Justice
A western town is being overrun and ruled by a gang of outlaws led by Bart (John Merton). Former Ranger Tim (Tim McCoy) is called out of retirement...
Askatu : 1938.04.29Ospea : 2.343
Hollywood Boulevard
With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to...
Askatu : 1936.08.20Ospea : 1.824
The Pony Express
The Pony Express is a silent 1925 Western film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film was directed by James...
Askatu : 1925.09.03Ospea : 1.052
Those Who Dance
A policeman doubles as a gunman to get in with the mob.
Askatu : 1930.04.18Ospea : 1.792
The Big City
Gangster boss Chuck Collins, despite his ruthlessness, is a basically decent fellow. Collins is plagued by a rival gang, led by deceptively boyish...
Askatu : 1928.03.23Ospea : 2.234
The Beloved Brat
Roberta Morgan is being raised in a wealthy home where her mother is occupied with her society-club activities and her father is immersed in his...
Askatu : 1938.04.30Ospea : 2.246
The Little Minister
In 1840 Scotland, a young lass named Babbie revels in the country life and frolics with the locals, simple weavers whose livelihood is threatened by...
Askatu : 1921.12.25Ospea : 0.624
Federal Bullets
Federal Bullets is a leisurely paced Monogram crime melodrama with not a few clever plot twists. The FBI, represented by Milburn Stone and William...
Askatu : 1937.10.29Ospea : 2.471
Laughing at Danger
Frankie Kelly, pageboy at the beauty salon ran by Madam Celeste, and his helper Jefferson find the routine broken when the body of one of the...
Askatu : 1940.08.12Ospea : 2.435
Skin Deep
Skin Deep is a 1929 American talking drama film directed by Ray Enright and starring Monte Blue. It was produced and distributed by the Warner...
Askatu : 1929.09.07Ospea : 0.878
The Spoilers
On a voyage to Nome, Roy Glenister, one of the several owners of a rich mine, The Midas, is captivated by Helen Chester, while he both fascinates and...
Askatu : 1930.09.20Ospea : 1.768
That Doggone Baby
That Doggone Baby (1916) is about a small puppy who is supposed to be a baby.
Askatu : 1916.10.20Ospea : 0.35
As Luck Would Have It
Eddie Barry wants to keep wife Betty Compson happy, and she wants him to be a race car driver, so he hires a driver to impersonate himself on the...
Askatu : 1917.03.05Ospea : 0.377
Show of Shows
Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see and hear multiple silent-screen favorites for the...
Askatu : 1929.11.21Ospea : 3.816
Cafe Hostess
A dancehall girl meets a sailor and they fall in love, but the club’s owner doesn’t want the girl to leave.
Askatu : 1940.01.11Ospea : 1.694
Roar of the Press
While on their honeymoon, a reporter and his new bride stumble upon a ring of fifth columnists.
Askatu : 1941.04.17Ospea : 1.304
A Slight Case of Murder
Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with forclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law, and four hard-to-explain corpses.
Askatu : 1938.02.26Ospea : 3.489
Ladies Must Live
A societal romance drama based on an Alice Duer Miller novel.
Askatu : 1921.10.29Ospea : 1.667
Isle of Escape
On a South Sea island, Stella operates a hotel for her mother, who is constantly drunk on liquor smuggled by Shane, the principal trader and virtual...
Askatu : 1930.03.01Ospea : 0.88
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.
Askatu : 1975.08.06Ospea : 6.197
Fashion News
Hollywood actresses including Jeanette Loff and Raquel Torres modeling Spring fashions in color.
Askatu : 1928.11.06Ospea : 1.905
The Boudoir Diplomat
A ladies' man flirts with the wives of other governments' officials.
Askatu : 1930.12.05Ospea : 1.073
The Enemy Sex
A well-known sextet has been invited to a society gathering, and when one of them turns up missing, their manager asks Dodo to fill in. At the party,...
Askatu : 1924.08.25Ospea : 1.522
The Stranger
"The Stranger," an outcast who works in a saloon frequented by Peggy Bowlin, a poor girl suffering through hard times. She finds romance with Larry...
Askatu : 1924.02.04Ospea : 1.428
The Silver Lining
A women in prison tale. One's rich, one's poor. Can they prosper after prison?
Askatu : 1932.04.16Ospea : 0.54
The Desert Bride
Captain Maurice de Florimont, a French Army intelligence officer, is captured by Arab nationalists while on an espionage mission. His sweetheart...
Askatu : 1928.03.26Ospea : 0.919
Ramshackle House
Don Counsel, a New Yorker who is traveling through southern Florida, is being framed by Ernest Riever for a murder he did not commit. Riever is...
Askatu : 1924.08.31Ospea : 0.403
Love Me and the World is Mine
In Old Vienna in the days prior to The Great War, a beautiful woman, Hannerl, has her choice of two men; the first is a dashing young army officer...
Askatu : 1927.09.26Ospea : 1.696
Laughing Irish Eyes
An Irish crooner flirts with prize-fighting.
Askatu : 1936.03.04Ospea : 1.726
At the End of the World
This dramatic adventure finds the flirtatious Cherry O'Day as the daughter of the Shanghai saloon keeper Terrence. She works in the dive and...
Askatu : 1921.08.14Ospea : 0.83
The House That Shadows Built
The House That Shadows Built (1931) is a short feature, roughly 48 minutes long, from Paramount Pictures made to celebrate the 20th anniversary of...
Askatu : 1931.07.08Ospea : 2.81
Kick In
After serving time in Sing Sing, Chic Hewes wants to go straight, but when he refuses to be a stool pigeon for the cops, they hound him mercilessly....
Askatu : 1922.12.17Ospea : 0.493
The White Flower
Konia Markham, the daughter of an American father and a Hawaiian mother, is told by a sorceress that the man who presents her with a perfect white...
Askatu : 1923.03.04Ospea : 0.826
To Have and to Hold
King James I gives his consent to the marriage between Lord Carnal and Lady Jocelyn Leigh. Lady Jocelyn, however, does not want to wed the evil Lord...
Askatu : 1922.10.29Ospea : 0.876
The Rustle of Silk
Lola de Breze loves Lord Arthur Fallaray from afar, though there seems to be no way to bring them together -- he is England's Colonial Secretary and...
Askatu : 1923.05.13Ospea : 0.862
Court-Martial
During the American Civil War, A Union-Army officer is ordered by U. S. President Abraham Lincoln to bring in Belle Starr, the leader of a Missouri...
Askatu : 1928.08.12Ospea : 0.847
Eve's Secret
Eve's Secret is that she's not the elegant society woman she seems to be. In fact, Eve is an unkempt country girl who's been "transformed," Pygmalion...
Askatu : 1925.05.11Ospea : 3.097
New Lives for Old
Olympe is a cabaret dancer who offers her services to France when her country goes to war. She becomes a spy and provides valuable intelligence...
Askatu : 1925.02.22Ospea : 0.547
Border Raiders
Ranch owner John Hardy becomes the dupe of Cleo Dade when he marries her and brings her home to be a mother to his daughter Rose.
Askatu : 1918.10.06Ospea : 1.625
The Bonded Woman
Angela Gaskell travels and sails around the Pacific Ocean to rescue the man she loves, John Somers. Her task takes her from San Francisco...
Askatu : 1922.08.21Ospea : 2.906
Her Adventurous Night
A boy's tall tale about a gun puts his parents and school principal in jail.
Askatu : 1946.06.05Ospea : 2.352
The Female
A Sam Wood silent South Africa romance is a love story (based on Cynthia Stocklet Story) with a sad...and then happy ending. antic love...
Askatu : 1924.08.31Ospea : 1.715
The Light of Victory
U.S. Navy Lieutenant George Blenton becomes drunk at an official reception, and his fiancee, Jane Ravenslee, the captain's daughter, breaks their...
Askatu : 1919.03.17Ospea : 1.471
Blaze o' Glory
On trial for the murder of Carl Hummel, Eddie Williams tells his story, which begins just before the World War
Askatu : 1929.12.30Ospea : 1.152
Killer at Large
A master of disguise poses as a wax figure to rob a safe of its jewels.
Askatu : 1936.10.27Ospea : 3.119
Confessions of a Vice Baron
On the eve of his execution, a vice-rackets bigshot recalls his various exploits in crimes such as abortion and white slavery, in which he frequently...
Askatu : 1943.06.30Ospea : 2.745
The Royal Oak
King Charles flees and hides in a huge oak tree when the troops loyal to Oliver Cromwell close in. The royal entourage is disguised, and the king's...
Askatu : 1923.10.01Ospea : 0.886
God's Country and the Man
Cowboy and his friends set out to track down his father's killer. On the way, they discover a vein of gold. The killer finds out about it, and...
Askatu : 1937.09.02Ospea : 1.051
The Sheriff
Roscoe Arbuckle plays a Douglas Fairbanks fan who becomes a rotund version of his hero. As "The Sheriff", he must rescue abducted schoolteacher Betty...
Askatu : 1918.11.24Ospea : 1.348
Law and the Woman
Although Margaret and Julian Rolfe are deeply in love, Rolfe has a bit of a past. At one time he had befriended Clara Foster, a woman of the streets....
Askatu : 1922.01.22Ospea : 2.803
Virtuous Husband
When a rich young man marries, he lets the books and letters left him by his dead mother guide his life.
Askatu : 1931.04.12Ospea : 1.366