Betty Compson filmography
This page has most if not all of Betty Compson's known film appearances 1915-48. Films from 1915-19 are shorts, mostly for Al Christie unless otherwise stated. A big breakout came in 1919 with The Miracle Man now lost. In the early-to-mid 1920s Compson was a major player at Paramount with her name above the title of her films. By the end of the decade she was free-lancing and appearing as feature and support with name below the title of the film. Her star definitely took a fall somewhere after marrying director James Cruze, and she would remain a feature support into the sound era for the rest of her film career.
1915
- Wanted: A Leading Lady (1915)*short
- Their Quiet Honeymoon (1915)*short
- Where the Heather Blooms(1915)*short
- Love and a Savage (1915)
- Some Chaperone (1915)*short
1916
- Jed's Trip to the Fair *short
- Mingling Spirits *short
- Her Steady Carfare *short
- A Quiet Supper for Four *short
- When the Losers Won *short
- Her Friend, the Doctor *short
- Cupid Trims his Lordship *short
- When Lizzie Disappeared *short
- The Deacon's Waterloo *short
- Love and Vaccination *short
- A Friend, But a Star Boarder *short
- The Janitor's Busy Day *short
- He Almost Eloped *short
- A Leap Year Tangle *short
- Eddie's Night Out *short
- The Newlyweds' Mix-Up *short
- Lem's College Career *short
- Potts Bungles Again *short
- He's a Devil *short
- Her Celluloid Hero *short
- All Over a Stocking *short
- Wanted: A Husband *short
- Almost a Widow
- The Browns See the Fair *short
- His Baby *short
- Innoculating Hubby *short
- Those Primitive Days *short
- The Making Over of Mother *short
- He Wouldn't Tip *short
- That Doggone Baby *short
- He Loved the Ladies *short
- When Clubs Were Trumps *short
- Dad's Masterpiece *short
- Nearly a Hero *short
- A Brass-Buttoned Romance *short
- Her Sun-Kissed Hero *short
- Some Kid *short
- Sea Nymphs *short
- Hist! At Six O'Clock *short
- Cupid's Uppercut *short
- Lovers and Lunatics *short
1917
- Her Crooked Career *short
- Her Friend, the Chauffeur *short
- Small Change *short
- Hubby's Night Out *short
- Out for the Coin *short
- As Luck Would Have It *short
- Sauce for the Goose *short
- Suspended Sentence *short
- Father's Bright Idea *short
- His Last Pill *short
- Those Wedding Bells *short
- Almost a Scandal *short
- A Bold, Bad Knight *short
- Five Little Widows *short
- Down by the Sea *short
- Won in a Cabaret *short
- A Smoky Love Affair *short
- Crazy by Proxy *short
- Betty's Big Idea *short
- Almost a Bigamist *short
- Love and Locksmiths *short
- Nearly a Papa *short
- Almost Divorced *short
- Betty Wakes Up *short
- Their Seaside Tangle *short
- Help! Help! Police! *short
- Cupid's Camouflage *short
1918
- Many a Slip *short
- Whose Wife? *short
- Circumstantial Evidence *short
- Here Comes the Groom *short
- Somebody's Baby *short
- Betty's Adventure (1918) *short
- Never Surprise Your Wife *short
- All Dressed Up *short
- The Border Raiders
- The Sheriff *short
1919
- Terror of the Range
- The Prodigal Liar
- The Light of Victory
- The Little Diplomat
- The Devil's Trail
- The Miracle Man(Paramount;lost but short fragment exists)
1921
- Prisoners of Love (Goldwyn;lost) also produced
- For Those We Love (GoldwynPictures;lost) also produced
- At the End of the World (Paramount;extant; held at Gosfilmofond)
- Ladies Must Live (Paramount;lost)
- The Little Minister (Paramount;extant; Cinematheque Royale Belgique, BFI, Filmmuseum(EYE)..)
1922
- The Law and the Woman (Paramount;lost)
- The Green Temptation (Paramount;lost)
- Over the Border (Paramount;lost)
- Always the Woman (Goldwyn;extant; UCLA Film & TV)
- A Trip to Paramountown (Paramount; extant, *short)
- The Bonded Woman (Paramount;extant; Gosfilmofond)
- To Have and to Hold (Paramount;lost)
- Kick In (Paramount;extant)
1923
- The White Flower (Paramount;lost) directed by Julia Crawford Ivers
- The Rustle of Silk (Paramount;lost)
- The Woman With Four Faces (Paramount;lost)
- Woman to Woman (British;lost) directed by Alfred Hitchcock
- The Royal Oak (British;lost)
1924
- The Stranger (Paramount;lost)
- Miami (Hodkinson;lost)
- Dangerous Virtue (British;extant) screenplay by Alfred Hitchcock
- The White Shadow (British; extant) directed by Graham Cutts
- The Enemy Sex (Paramount;extant Library of Congress)
- The Female (Paramount;lost)
- Ramshackle House (PDC;lost)
- The Garden of Weeds (Paramount;lost)
1925
- Locked Doors (Paramount;lost)
- New Lives for Old (Paramount;lost)
- Eve's Secret (Paramount;extant)
- Beggar on Horseback (Paramount; incomplete)
- Paths to Paradise (Paramount;extant)
- The Pony Express (Paramount;extant)
- Counsel for the Defense (BurtonKing/AssociatedExhibitors; lost)
1926
- The Palace of Pleasure (Fox Film; lost)
- Wise Guy (FrankLloydProds/FirstNationalPictures; extant National Archives of Canada)
- The Belle of Broadway (ColumbiaPictures;extant Library of Congress)
1927
- The Ladybird (Chadwick/1stDivisionPictures;extant Library of Congress)
- Say It with Diamonds (Chadwick;extant Library of Congress)
- Temptations of a Shop Girl (Chadwick/1stDivisionPictures;lost)
- Love Me and the World Is Mine (UniversalPictures;extant)
- Cheating Cheaters (UniversalPictures;lost remade in 1934)
1928
- The Big City (MGM;lost) [*Compson's only silent film at MGM]
- The Desert Bride (ColumbiaPictures; lost)
- The Masked Angel (Chadwick/1stDivision;lost)
- Life's Mockery (Chadwick;extant Bois d'Arcy,Paris)
- Court Martial (ColumbiaPictures;extant National Archives of Canada, Cineteca del Friuli-Germona, Museum of Modern Art)
- The Docks of New York (Paramount;extant, Compson's last pure silent film)
- The Barker (FirstNational;extant)
1929
- Scarlet Seas (FirstNational;lost)
- Weary River (FirstNational;extant)
- On with the Show (Vitaphone/WarnerBros.;extant)
- The Time, the Place and the Girl (WarnerBrothers;lost)
- Street Girl (RKO; extant)
- Skin Deep (WarnerBros.;lost)
- The Great Gabbo (Sono Art-World;extant)
- Woman to Woman (Gainsborough/Tiffany-Stahl; extant)
- The Show of Shows (WarnerBrothers; extant)
- Blaze o'Glory (Sono Art-World;lost, soundtrack survives)
1930
- The Case of Sergeant Grischa (RKO;lost)
- Isle of Escape (WarnerBrothers;lost)
- Those Who Dance (WarnerBrothers;extant)
- The Czar of Broadway (Universal;extant)
- Midnight Mystery (RKO;extant)
- Inside the Lines (RKO;extant)
- The Spoilers (Paramount;extant)
- She Got What She Wanted (Tiffany;lost)
- The Boudoir Diplomat (Universal)
1931
- The Lady Refuses (RKO)
- The Virtuous Husband (Universal)
- Three Who Loved (RKO)
- The Gay Diplomat (RKO)
- Hollywood Halfbacks (*short)
1932
- The Silver Lining (United Artists;extant)
- Guilty or Not Guilty (Monogram);lost)
1933
- West of Singapore (Monogram;lost--all Compson films following this one are extant)
- Destination Unknown (Universal)
- Notorious but Nice (Chesterfield Motion Pictures Corporation)
1934
- No Sleep on the Deep (Educational...*short film)
1935
- Manhattan Butterfly
- False Pretenses
1936
- August Weekend
- Laughing Irish Eyes
- The Millionaire Kid
- The Drag-Net
- Hollywood Boulevard
- Bulldog Edition
- Killer at Large
- Two Minutes to Play
1937
- Circus Girl
- God's Country and the Man
- Federal Bullets
1938
- Blondes at Work
- Port of Missing Girls
- A Slight Case of Murder
- Torchy Blane in Panama
- Two Gun Justice
- The Beloved Brat
- Religious Racketeers
- Under the Big Top
1939
1940-48
- Cafe Hostess (1940) *uncredited
- Strange Cargo (1940) *uncredited
- Mad Youth (1940)
- Laughing at Danger (1940)
- The Watchman Takes a Wife (1940) *short
- Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941)
- Roar of the Press (1941)
- Invisible Ghost (1941)
- Zis Boom Bah (1941)*uncredited
- Escort Girl (1941)
- Danger! Women at Work (1943)
- Claudia and David (1946) *uncredited
- Her Adventurous Night (1946)
- Hard Boiled Mahoney (1947)
- Second Chance (1947)
- Here Comes Trouble (1948)
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