Betty Compson
Betty Compson was born in Beaver, Utah, United States on March 19th, 1897 and is the Movie Actress. At the age of 77, Betty Compson biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Betty Compton (born Eleanor Luigi Compton, March 19, 1897 – April 18, 1974), an American actress and film producer, and she married NYC Mayor Jimmy Walker.
She is most well-known in silent films and early talkies, and she is best known for her appearances in The Docks of New York and The Barker, the former receiving a nomination for Best Actress in the Academy.
Early life
Compson was born in 1897, the niece of Virgil Compson and Mary Rauscher of Beaver, Utah, was born in a mining camp. Her father was a mining engineer, a gold prospector, and a grocery store owner, and her mother was a maid in homes and hotels. Compson graduated from Salt Lake High School. Her father died when she was young and she began working as a violinist at a theater in Salt Lake City at 16 a.m.
Personal life
Compson married two more times since her marriage with Cruze came to an end. Irving Weinberg's marriage to agent/producer Irving Weinberg resulted in divorce, and her marriage to Silvius Gall ended in 1962, according to Gall's. She had no children at the time.
Career
Compson was noticed by Hollywood producers who were participating in vain sketches on touring circuits. When touring, she was discovered by comedic producer Al Christie and signed a deal with him. Wanted, a Leading Lady, was her first silent film, and it was released in November 1915.
She made 25 films in 1916 alone, but all of them were shorts for Christie with the exception of one, Almost a Widow. She kept up the speed of making several short films well into the middle of 1918, when she first began making feature films exclusively. With the introduction of George Loane Tucker's 1919 film The Miracle Man (1919) on Comson, his fame began to rise. Compson has agreed to a five-year contract with the support of Tucker.
Because of her fame, she was able to establish her own production company, which gave her creative control over screenplays and funding. Prisoners of Love (1921) was her first film as producer. Blanche Davis, a girl born to fortune and cursed by her physical appearance, was portrayed by her. Art Rosson was chosen by Compson to direct the film. The story was selected from a collection of actress and writer Catherine Henry's work.
Paramount refused to give her a raise (1923), and she refused to sign without one. Rather, she joined a London motion picture firm. She appeared in a series of four films directed by Graham Cutts, a well-known English filmmaker.
The first of these was a film adaptation of an English play called Woman to Woman (1923), which was co-written by Cutts and Alfred Hitchcock. Another Cutts/Hitchcock collaboration is part of The White Shadow, in which she appeared in multiple roles. Jesse Lasky's return to Paraphrasedoutput was enough for her to return to Paraguay.
She appeared in The Enemy Sex, directed by James Cruze, and The Great Gabbo in 1929, as well as the sound film The Great Gabbo, which was his first sound picture. Compson and Cruze were married in 1925, but they divorced in 1929. In The Belle of Broadway and Chadwick in The Ladybird, she was not renewed and decided to freelance, working with lower-budget studios such as Columbia. She was suggested as a replacement for her gritty Greta Garbo in MGM's Flesh and the Devil opposite John Gilbert during this period. Lon Chaney, the former The Miracle Man co-star, appeared in The Big City and later worked in the studio with her co-star Lon Chaney.
In 1928, she appeared in The Barker, a First National Pictures part-talkie. Carrie's performance as a manipulative carnival girl earned her a nomination for Best Actress, but she lost to Mary Pickford in Coquette. In Court-Martial, a 1928 silent film, she was the first actress to play Old West outlaw Belle Starr on film. In the same year, she appeared in the acclaimed Josef von Sternberg film The Docks of New York, a sympathetic portrayal of a suicidal prostitute.
Compson's fame has returned to re-emerge, and the actress of the recent talking film has a large audience. In fact, Chaney gave her the female lead in his first talkie The Unholy Three, but she was too occupied to suggest a friend, Lila Lee. It was regarded with a high degree of authenticity by her voice in comparison to many other female stars of silent film. Despite being a natural performer, she appeared in a number of early musicals in which her singing voice was dubbed.
Compson's career soared after being divorced from Cruze, appearing in nine films in 1930 alone. However, Gary Cooper was unable to be in The Spoilers at her last match. She was unable to find success and only gained work in "poverty row" studios.
There was one major film in which she did not appear was Gone with the Wind; however, she did not appear in a Technicolor screen test for Belle Watling, but she was not cast in the role. Compson appeared in a small role in Alfred Hitchcock's film Mr. & Mrs. Smith, in 1941. The bulk of her later films were low-budget productions. Compson's last film, Here Comes Trouble, was released in 1948; after removing from film, she founded a cosmetic line and supported her husband in running a company named Ashtrays Unlimited.