Cast: Betty Compson

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


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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August Week End

1936 · Movie · 62 min. · United States

Direction Charles Lamont

Cast Valerie Hobson · Paul Harvey · G.P. Huntley · Betty Compson

Synopsis 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 not-so-wealthy man.

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Her Adventurous Night

1946 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction John Rawlins

Cast Dennis O'Keefe · Helen Walker · Scotty Beckett · Fuzzy Knight

Synopsis Story of parents with a peculiarly troublesome son. He has a colourful imagination and weaves such a story of intrigue and complexity to the police that his parents and schoolmaster are arrested.

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Love Me and the World Is Mine

1927 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Ewald André Dupont

Cast Mary Philbin · Norman Kerry · Betty Compson · Henry B. Walthall

Synopsis 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 who can provide blazing romance and little long-time security. The other...

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On with the Show!

1929 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Alan Crosland

Cast Arthur Lake · Betty Compson · Joe E. Brown · Sally O'Neil

Synopsis With unpaid actors and staff, the stage show Phantom Sweetheart seems doomed. To complicate matters, the box office takings have been robbed and the leading lady refuses to appear. The film is noted as the first ever all-talking, all-color feature...

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Isle of Escape

1930 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

Direction Howard Bretherton

Cast Monte Blue · Myrna Loy · Betty Compson · Noah Beery

Synopsis 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 dictator of the island. Dave Wade, exhausted from the heat, lands on the shore...

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The Enemy Sex

1924 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

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Destination Unknown

1933 · Movie · 66 min. · United States

Direction Tay Garnett

Cast Pat O'Brien · Ralph Bellamy · Alan Hale · Russell Hopton

Synopsis A group of people are stuck on a schooner in the middle of the Pacific with no wind.

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False Pretenses

1935 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

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Hard Boiled Mahoney

1947 · Movie · 63 min. · United States

Direction William Beaudine

Cast Leo Gorcey · Huntz Hall · Bobby Jordan · Gabriel Dell

Synopsis Mistaken for a detective, Slip takes on the case of a missing woman, which turns out to be bogus.

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Notorious But Nice

1933 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction Richard Thorpe

Cast Marian Marsh · Betty Compson · Don Dillaway · Rochelle Hudson

Synopsis Jennie Jones, a poor clerk, hesitates to accept Dick Hamilton's marriage proposal, although they love each other, because she thinks that her employer, John J. Martin, the executor of Dick's late father's estate, will find a way to deprive him...

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The Barker

1928 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction George Fitzmaurice

Cast Milton Sills · Dorothy Mackaill · Betty Compson · Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Synopsis 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 with a showgirl, and his own jealous mistress.

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The Big City

1928 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

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Hotel Imperial

1939 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction Robert Florey

Cast Isa Miranda · Ray Milland · Reginald Owen · Gene Lockhart

Synopsis 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 World War I, to be occupied one day by the Russians, the next by...

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Mad Youth

1940 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

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Blondes at Work

1938 · Movie · 63 min. · United States

Direction Frank McDonald

Cast Glenda Farrell · Barton MacLane · Tom Kennedy · Rosella Towne

Synopsis Marvin Spencer, of the Bon Ton Department Stores, is missing, and Torchy knows how to find him. When she does, he is dead and she is the first paper to headline the death. Then she finds his girlfriend and the...

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The Miracle Man

1919 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction George Loane Tucker

Cast Lon Chaney · Betty Compson · Joseph J. Dowling · J.M. Dumont

Synopsis 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 gullible public of funds for a supposed chapel. But when a real...

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