Cast: Joyce Compton

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Joyce Compton. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


The Awful Truth

1937 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Leo McCarey

Cast Cary Grant · Irene Dunne · Ralph Bellamy · Alexander D'Arcy

Plot Jerry and Lucy Warriner lead madcap screwball high society lives in New York City. Despite being very happy, they start to doubt each other's fidelity. Finally they decide to divorce....

7.4

2K votes

7.4

2K votes

City for Conquest

1940 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Anatole Litvak

Cast James Cagney · Ann Sheridan · Anthony Quinn · Frank Craven

Plot Cagney is Danny Kenny, a truck driver who enters "the fight game" and Sheridan his former girlfriend, Peggy. While Danny is realizing success in the ring, he is blinded by...

7.0

313 votes

7.0

313 votes

Manpower

1941 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Marlene Dietrich · George Raft · Alan Hale

Plot Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work on a road crew for the power company. In a freak accident Hank is injured and is promoted to foreman of the gang. One...

6.9

319 votes

6.9

319 votes

Blues in the Night

1941 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Anatole Litvak

Cast Priscilla Lane · Betty Field · Richard Whorf · Lloyd Nolan

Plot "Jigger' Lane forms a band that includes singer Ginger 'Character' Powell, wife of the trumpeter Leo Powelll, and Nickie Haroyen and Peppi. All of them dedicate themselves to work as...

6.2

78 votes

6.2

78 votes

The Wild Party

1929 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Dorothy Arzner

Cast Clara Bow · Fredric March · Marceline Day · Shirley O'Hara

Plot Wild girls at a college pay more attention to parties than their classes. But when one party girl, Stella Ames, goes too far at a local bar and gets in...

6.0

21 votes

6.0

21 votes

Trade Winds

1938 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Tay Garnett

Cast Fredric March · Joan Bennett · Ralph Bellamy · Ann Sothern

Plot Kay Kerrigan commits a murder and then changes her hair color, assumes a new identity and flees the country by ship. She's unaware that she's being followed by Sam Wye,...

5.4

25 votes

5.4

25 votes

Scared to Death

1947 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction Christy Cabanne

Cast Bela Lugosi · Molly Lamont · George Zucco · Nat Pendleton

Plot From a slab in the morgue, a dead young woman tells the bizarre tale of how she got there, through a maze of murder involving a hypnotist, a midget and...

4.1

62 votes

4.1

62 votes

Danger Signal

1945 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Robert Florey

Cast Faye Emerson · Zachary Scott · Richard Erdman · Rosemary DeCamp

Plot A mysterious artist, Ronnie Mason, steals a dead woman's wedding ring and money and leaves a fake suicide note. Her husband, Thomas Turner, believed his wife might have been seeing...

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Three Girls Lost

1931 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Lanfield

Cast Loretta Young · Lew Cody · John Wayne · Joan Marsh

Plot Architect Gordon Wales finds fellow apartment house resident Joan Marsh locked out and flirts with her. When she is murdered evidence points to him. He and Joan's roommate Noreen become...

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The White Parade

1934 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Irving Cummings

Cast Loretta Young · John Boles · Dorothy Wilson · Muriel Kirkland

Plot The title represents the hopeful, ambitious students at a hospital training school and is primarily a story of the stern discipline and laborious physical and mental toil they endure in...

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Go Into Your Dance

1935 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Archie Mayo · Michael Curtiz

Cast Al Jolson · Ruby Keeler · Glenda Farrell · Barton MacLane

Plot Al Howard may be a star on Broadway, but he is no longer welcomed by any producer. It seems that he just trots off to Mexico any time he wants...

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Artists and Models Abroad

1938 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Mitchell Leisen

Cast Jack Benny · Joan Bennett · Mary Boland · Charley Grapewin

Plot Buck Boswell and his all-girl troupe are stranded in Paris, but Buck manages to con the manager of the 'Hotel de Navarre' in furnishing accommodations for his group, but the...

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Exposed

1947 · Movie · 59 min. · United States

Direction George Blair

Cast Adele Mara · Mark Roberts · Lorna Gray · Robert Armstrong

Plot A beautiful female private detective is hired by a wealthy businessman to check up on his stepson--the heir to the family fortune--who has been withdrawing large amounts of money from...

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Pick a Star

1937 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction Edward Sedgwick

Cast Patsy Kelly · Jack Haley · Rosina Lawrence · Mischa Auer

Plot A Cinderella story of a young country girl who comes to Hollywood and achieves movie stardom with the help of a publicity man.

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Up Pops the Devil

1931 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction A. Edward Sutherland

Cast Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher · Stuart Erwin · Carole Lombard · Lilyan Tashman

Plot The marriage of an advertising man is jeopardized when he gets a chance to sell a novel he's been working on and quits his job to concentrate on writing. In...

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Salute

1929 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

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Sing Sinner Sing

1933 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction Howard Christie

Cast Paul Lukas · Leila Hyams · Don Dillaway · Ruth Donnelly

Plot A singer on a gambling ship is married to a wealthy playboy. When he is found murdered, all evidence points to her as the culprit, and she is put on...

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Dark Alibi

1946 · Movie · 61 min. · United States

Direction Phil Karlson

Cast Sidney Toler · Mantan Moreland · Ben Carter · Benson Fong

Plot Three men are convicted of bank robberies, the main evidence against them being that their fingerprints were found at the scenes. However, Charlie Chan believes them to be innocent, and...

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Affairs of a Gentleman

1934 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Edwin L. Marin

Cast Paul Lukas · Leila Hyams · Patricia Ellis · Phillip Reed

Plot When a novelist is murdered, suspicion falls on all the women he had affairs with--and then wrote about in his books.

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Star for a Night

1936 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Seiler

Cast Claire Trevor · Jane Darwell · Arline Judge · Evelyn Venable

Plot Blind Mrs. Lind comes to American to visit her three children whom she thinks are successful.

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