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
Direction John Ford
Cast George O'Brien · Helen Chandler · William Janney · Stepin Fetchit
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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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