Cast: Betty Compson

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


The Docks of New York

1928 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction Josef von Sternberg

Cast George Bancroft · Betty Compson · Olga Baclanova · Clyde Cook

Synopsis The ship on which Bill Roberts is a stoker has just put into port, giving the crew one night ashore. The ship's bad-tempered third engineer orders the stokers to clean up, while the engineer heads for a dockside bar, where...

7.3

795 votes

7.3

795 votes

The White Shadow

1924 · Movie · 82 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Graham Cutts

Cast Betty Compson · Clive Brook · Henry Victor · A.B. Imeson

Synopsis The plot concerns twin sisters, one good, the other evil. 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 on it as assistant director...

6.0

21 votes

6.0

21 votes

The Great Gabbo

1929 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Erich von Stroheim · James Cruze

Cast Erich von Stroheim · Betty Compson · Donald Douglas · Marjorie Kane

Synopsis An insanely, egocentric ventriloquist, even though he is possessed by his wooden dummy, is in love with a dancer who is in love with another. The dummy gives advice to the ventriloquist.

6.0

120 votes

6.0

120 votes

Mr. and Mrs. Smith

1941 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Carole Lombard · Robert Montgomery · Gene Raymond · Jack Carson

Synopsis Sophisticated New York couple David and Annie Smith have an unusual marriage with an inordinate number of rules and regulations. One rule entitles them to ask each other one question per month which the other must answer completely honestly. Annie...

5.9

2K votes

5.9

2K votes

Invisible Ghost

1941 · Movie · 64 min. · United States

Direction Joseph H. Lewis

Cast Bela Lugosi · Polly Ann Young · John McGuire · Clarence Muse

Synopsis The town's leading citizen becomes a homocidal maniac after his wife deserts him.

4.8

244 votes

4.8

244 votes

The Royal Oak

1923 · Movie · United Kingdom

Direction Maurice Elvey

Cast Betty Compson · Henry Ainley · Henry Victor · Thurston Hall

Synopsis A royalist lady poses as the king to help him escape.

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The Case of Sergeant Grischa

1930 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Herbert Brenon

Cast Chester Morris · Betty Compson · Alec B. Francis · Gustav von Seyffertitz

Synopsis Grischa Paprotkin is a simple sergeant in the Russian Army, who has been captured by the Germans during World War I, and who sits in a Prisoner-of-war camp camp. When his chance comes to escape, he takes it, ending up...

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The Belle of Broadway

1926 · Movie · 63 min. · United States

Direction Harry O. Hoyt

Cast Betty Compson · Herbert Rawlinson · Edith Yorke · Armand Kaliz

Synopsis 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 as the Madame Adele of old, and both become the darlings of Paris, one...

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Say It with Diamonds

1927 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Arthur Gregor · Jack Nelson

Cast Betty Compson · Earle Williams · Jocelyn Lee · Armand Kaliz

Synopsis 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 George Eastman House Motion Picture Collection.

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Woman to Woman

1929 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Victor Saville

Cast Betty Compson · George Barraud · Juliette Compton · Margaret Chambers

Synopsis An amnesiac officer weds a barren socialite and adopts his son by a French ballerina.

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The Lady Refuses

1931 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction George Archainbaud

Cast Betty Compson · John Darrow · Gilbert Emery · Margaret Livingston

Synopsis A wealthy London nobleman hires a pretty but poor young girl to distract his playboy son from marrying a golddigger. Complications ensue when the girl and the father begin to fall for each other, and things get even more complicated...

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Kick In

1922 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

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Laughing at Danger

1940 · Movie · 63 min. · United States

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The Silver Lining

1932 · Movie · 59 min. · United States

Direction Alan Crosland

Cast Maureen O'Sullivan · Betty Compson · John Warburton · Montagu Love

Synopsis A rich girls gets her lesson, being sent to prison and getting to know a few people effected by her negligence.

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News Is Made at Night

1939 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Alfred L. Werker

Cast Preston Foster · Lynn Bari · Russell Gleason · George Barbier

Synopsis Newspaper editor (Foster) will do almost anything to increase circulation. He campaigns to free a condemned man while accusing a wealthy ex-criminal of a string of murders.

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Inside the Lines

1930 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Roy Pomeroy

Cast Betty Compson · Ralph Forbes · Montagu Love · Ivan Simpson

Synopsis During World War 1, German spies will stop at nothing to spy on the allied war plans stored at Gibraltar.

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The Desert Bride

1928 · Movie · 56 min. · United States

Direction Walter Lang

Cast Betty Compson · Allan Forrest · Edward Martindel · Otto Matieson

Synopsis Captain Maurice de Florimont, a French Army intelligence officer, is captured by Arab nationalists while on an espionage mission. His sweetheart Diane Duval is also taken prisoner. Both are tortured by Kassim Ben Ali, leader of the Arab nationalists, but...

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Paths to Paradise

1925 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Clarence G. Badger

Cast Betty Compson · Raymond Griffith · Tom Santschi · Bert Woodruff

Synopsis A con-woman has a nice business going in fleecing gullible tourists who want a genuine 'underworld' experience -- but the tables are turned when one of her victims turns out to be less innocent than he looks! Dodging the city...

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