Betty Compson (born Eleanor Luicime Compson; March 19, 1897 – April 18, 1974) was an American actress and film producer who got her start during Hollywood's silent era. She is best known for her performances in The Docks of New York and The Barker, the latter of which earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.
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*Betty Compson on the cover of the 1922 March Motion Picture Classic magazine. Cover artist, Edward Mason Eggleston.
Betty Compson - Actress
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1.Profile :
*Betty Compson - Publicity photo, 1930
Born Eleanor Luicime Compson, March 19, 1897, Beaver, Utah, U.S.
Died April 18, 1974 (aged 77). Glendale, California, U.S.
Occupation Actress
Years active 1915–1948
Spouse(s)
1.James Cruze (m.1924–div.1930)
2.Irving Weinberg (m.1933–div.1937)
3.Silvius Jack Gall (m.1944–1962; his death)
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2.Introduction :
Betty Compson (born Eleanor Luicime Compson; March 19, 1897 – April 18, 1974) was an American actress and film producer who got her start during Hollywood's silent era. She is best known for her performances in The Docks of New York and The Barker, the latter of which earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.
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3.Early life :
Compson was born on March 19, 1897, the daughter of Virgil Compson and Mary Rauscher, in Beaver, Utah, at a mining camp. Her father was a mining engineer, a gold prospector, and a grocery store proprietor, and her mother was a maid in homes and in a hotel. Compson graduated from Salt Lake High School. Her father died when she was young, and she obtained employment as a violinist at 16 at a theater in Salt Lake City.
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4.Career :
Playing in vaudeville sketches with touring circuits, Compson got noticed by Hollywood producers. While touring, she was discovered by comedic producer Al Christie and signed a contract with him. Her first silent film, Wanted, a Leading Lady, was in November 1915.
She made 25 films in 1916 alone, although all of them were shorts for Christie with the exception of one feature, Almost a Widow. She continued this pace of making numerous short films well into the middle of 1918, when after a long apprenticeship with Christie she started making features exclusively. Compson's star began to rise with the release of the 1919 feature The Miracle Man (1919) for George Loane Tucker. Paramount signed Compson to a five-year contract with the help of Tucker.
Her popularity allowed her to establish her own production company that providing her creative control over screenplays and financing. Her first movie as producer was Prisoners of Love (1921). She played the role of Blanche Davis, a girl born to wealth and cursed by her inheritance of physical beauty. Compson selected Art Rosson to direct the feature. The story was chosen from a work by actress and writer Catherine Henry.
After completing The Woman With Four Faces (1923), Paramount refused to offer her a raise (her salary was $2,500 per week) and she refused to sign without one. Instead, she signed with a motion picture company in London. There she starred in a series of four films directed by Graham Cutts, a well-known English filmmaker.
The first of these was a movie version of an English play called Woman to Woman (1923), the screenplay for which was co-written by Cutts and Alfred Hitchcock. Part of The White Shadow (in which she played a dual role), another Cutts/Hitchcock collaboration. Woman to Woman proved to be popular enough for Jesse Lasky to offer top dollar to return to Paramount.
Back in Hollywood, she starred in The Enemy Sex, directed by James Cruze. The two were married in 1925; they divorced in 1929. Her contract with Paramount was not renewed, and she decided to freelance, working with lower-budget studios such as Columbia in The Belle of Broadway and Chadwick in The Ladybird. During this time, she was suggested as a replacement for difficult Greta Garbo in the MGM feature Flesh and the Devil opposite John Gilbert. She eventually worked for the studio with former The Miracle Man co-star Lon Chaney in The Big City
In 1928, she appeared in a First National Pictures part-talkie, The Barker. Her performance as manipulative carnival girl Carrie garnered her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress, although she lost to Mary Pickford in Coquette. In Court-Martial, a 1928 silent film that apparently has not survived, she became the first actress to portray Old West outlaw Belle Starr on film. In the same year, she appeared in the acclaimed Josef von Sternberg film The Docks of New York in a sympathetic portrayal of a suicidal prostitute.
These films caused Compson's popularity to re-emerge, and she became a busy actress in the new talking cinema. In fact, Chaney offered her the female lead in his first talkie The Unholy Three, but she was too busy and instead suggested friend Lila Lee. Unlike a number of other female stars of silent film, it was felt that her voice recorded exceptionally well. Although she was not a singer, she appeared in a number of early musicals, in which her singing voice was dubbed.
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5.Later career :
Now divorced from Cruze, Compson's career continued to flourish, starring in nine films in 1930 alone. However, her last hit proved to be in The Spoilers, alongside Gary Cooper. She was unable to score a success and only secured roles in "poverty row" studios.
One major film in which she did not appear was Gone with the Wind; although she shot a Technicolor screen test for the role of Belle Watling, she was not cast in the role. In 1941, Compson appeared in a small role in an Alfred Hitchcock film. Mr. & Mrs. Smith. Most of her later films were low-budget efforts. Compson's last film was 1948's Here Comes Trouble; after retiring from the screen, she began a cosmetic line and helped her husband run a business called Ashtrays Unlimited.
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6.Personal life :
After her marriage with Cruze ended, Compson married two more times. Her marriage to agent/producer Irving Weinberg ended in divorce, and her marriage to Silvius Gall ended with Gall's death in 1962. She had no children.
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7.Death :
Compson died April 18, 1974, of a heart attack at her home in Glendale, California, aged 77. She was interred in San Fernando Mission Cemetery in San Fernando, California. For her contributions to the motion picture industry, Compson has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1751 Vine Street.
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8.Filmography :
8.1.Shorts :
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
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8.2.Features :
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
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8.3.Sound Films: 1928–1931 :
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
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8.4. 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 Spark
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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The End.
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18/04/2020.Betty Compson - Actress
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1.Profile :
*Betty Compson - Publicity photo, 1930
Died April 18, 1974 (aged 77). Glendale, California, U.S.
Occupation Actress
Years active 1915–1948
Spouse(s)
1.James Cruze (m.1924–div.1930)
2.Irving Weinberg (m.1933–div.1937)
3.Silvius Jack Gall (m.1944–1962; his death)
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2.Introduction :
Betty Compson (born Eleanor Luicime Compson; March 19, 1897 – April 18, 1974) was an American actress and film producer who got her start during Hollywood's silent era. She is best known for her performances in The Docks of New York and The Barker, the latter of which earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.
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3.Early life :
Compson was born on March 19, 1897, the daughter of Virgil Compson and Mary Rauscher, in Beaver, Utah, at a mining camp. Her father was a mining engineer, a gold prospector, and a grocery store proprietor, and her mother was a maid in homes and in a hotel. Compson graduated from Salt Lake High School. Her father died when she was young, and she obtained employment as a violinist at 16 at a theater in Salt Lake City.
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4.Career :
Playing in vaudeville sketches with touring circuits, Compson got noticed by Hollywood producers. While touring, she was discovered by comedic producer Al Christie and signed a contract with him. Her first silent film, Wanted, a Leading Lady, was in November 1915.
She made 25 films in 1916 alone, although all of them were shorts for Christie with the exception of one feature, Almost a Widow. She continued this pace of making numerous short films well into the middle of 1918, when after a long apprenticeship with Christie she started making features exclusively. Compson's star began to rise with the release of the 1919 feature The Miracle Man (1919) for George Loane Tucker. Paramount signed Compson to a five-year contract with the help of Tucker.
Her popularity allowed her to establish her own production company that providing her creative control over screenplays and financing. Her first movie as producer was Prisoners of Love (1921). She played the role of Blanche Davis, a girl born to wealth and cursed by her inheritance of physical beauty. Compson selected Art Rosson to direct the feature. The story was chosen from a work by actress and writer Catherine Henry.
After completing The Woman With Four Faces (1923), Paramount refused to offer her a raise (her salary was $2,500 per week) and she refused to sign without one. Instead, she signed with a motion picture company in London. There she starred in a series of four films directed by Graham Cutts, a well-known English filmmaker.
The first of these was a movie version of an English play called Woman to Woman (1923), the screenplay for which was co-written by Cutts and Alfred Hitchcock. Part of The White Shadow (in which she played a dual role), another Cutts/Hitchcock collaboration. Woman to Woman proved to be popular enough for Jesse Lasky to offer top dollar to return to Paramount.
Back in Hollywood, she starred in The Enemy Sex, directed by James Cruze. The two were married in 1925; they divorced in 1929. Her contract with Paramount was not renewed, and she decided to freelance, working with lower-budget studios such as Columbia in The Belle of Broadway and Chadwick in The Ladybird. During this time, she was suggested as a replacement for difficult Greta Garbo in the MGM feature Flesh and the Devil opposite John Gilbert. She eventually worked for the studio with former The Miracle Man co-star Lon Chaney in The Big City
In 1928, she appeared in a First National Pictures part-talkie, The Barker. Her performance as manipulative carnival girl Carrie garnered her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress, although she lost to Mary Pickford in Coquette. In Court-Martial, a 1928 silent film that apparently has not survived, she became the first actress to portray Old West outlaw Belle Starr on film. In the same year, she appeared in the acclaimed Josef von Sternberg film The Docks of New York in a sympathetic portrayal of a suicidal prostitute.
These films caused Compson's popularity to re-emerge, and she became a busy actress in the new talking cinema. In fact, Chaney offered her the female lead in his first talkie The Unholy Three, but she was too busy and instead suggested friend Lila Lee. Unlike a number of other female stars of silent film, it was felt that her voice recorded exceptionally well. Although she was not a singer, she appeared in a number of early musicals, in which her singing voice was dubbed.
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5.Later career :
Now divorced from Cruze, Compson's career continued to flourish, starring in nine films in 1930 alone. However, her last hit proved to be in The Spoilers, alongside Gary Cooper. She was unable to score a success and only secured roles in "poverty row" studios.
One major film in which she did not appear was Gone with the Wind; although she shot a Technicolor screen test for the role of Belle Watling, she was not cast in the role. In 1941, Compson appeared in a small role in an Alfred Hitchcock film. Mr. & Mrs. Smith. Most of her later films were low-budget efforts. Compson's last film was 1948's Here Comes Trouble; after retiring from the screen, she began a cosmetic line and helped her husband run a business called Ashtrays Unlimited.
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6.Personal life :
After her marriage with Cruze ended, Compson married two more times. Her marriage to agent/producer Irving Weinberg ended in divorce, and her marriage to Silvius Gall ended with Gall's death in 1962. She had no children.
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7.Death :
Compson died April 18, 1974, of a heart attack at her home in Glendale, California, aged 77. She was interred in San Fernando Mission Cemetery in San Fernando, California. For her contributions to the motion picture industry, Compson has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1751 Vine Street.
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8.Filmography :
8.1.Shorts :
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
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8.2.Features :
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
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8.3.Sound Films: 1928–1931 :
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
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8.4. 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 Spark
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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The End.
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