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Joyce Compton
Known for: ActingFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Olivia Joyce Compton (January 27, 1907 – October 13, 1997) was an American actress. Compton was born in Lexington, Kentucky. (Despite frequent reports to the contrary, her name was not originally "Eleanor Hunt"; she had appeared in the film Good Sport (1931) with Hunt and this confusion in an early press article followed Compton throughout her career.) After graduating high school she spent two years studying at the University of Tulsa, studying dramatics, art, music and dancing. She won a personality and beauty contest and spent two months in a film studio as an extra. Compton first made a name for herself when she was named one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1926, alongside Mary Brian, Dolores Costello, Joan Crawford, Dolores del Río, Janet Gaynor and Fay Wray. Compton appeared in a long string of mostly B-movies from the 1920s through the 1950s. She was a comedy actress and protested at being stereotyped as a "dumb blonde". Among her over two hundred films were Imitation of Life, Magnificent Obsession, The Awful Truth, Mildred Pierce, and The Best Years of Our Lives. A devout Christian, on her gravestone, just beneath her dates of birth and death, is written "Christian Actress". She died from natural causes, aged 90, and was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in the Hollywood Hills.
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Jet Pilot
as Mary Lou Simpson 
The Awful Truth
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as Dixie Belle Lee 
Mighty Joe Young
+1
as Alice (uncredited) 
Sorry, Wrong Number
as Cotterell's Blonde Girlfriend (uncredited) 
They Drive by Night
+1
as Sue Carter (uncredited) 
Pick a Star
as Newlywed 
Christmas in Connecticut
+2
as Nurse Mary Lee 
The Toast of New York
as Mary Lou (uncredited) 
Blues in the Night
+1
as Blonde 
Manpower
as Scarlett 
City for Conquest
+1
as Lilly 
Imitation of Life
as Young Woman at Party (uncredited) 
If I Had a Million
as Marie - Waitress (uncredited) 
The Wild Party
as Eva 'Evie' Tutt 
You and Me
as Curly Blonde 
Westward Passage
as Lillie, the Model (uncredited) 
Wild Company
as Anita Grayson 
Dark Alibi
+2
as Emily Evans 
Girl in the Woods
as Aunt Martha 
King Kelly of the U.S.A.
as Maxine LaTour 
Rhythm in the Clouds
as Receptionist 
Let 'em Have It
as Barbara 
Let's Make Music
as Betty 
Love Before Breakfast
as Mary Lee 
Balalaika
as Masha 
The Villain Still Pursued Her
as Hazel Dalton 
I Take This Oath
as Betty Casey 
Behind the Mask
as Lulu 
Three Smart Girls
as Evans' Secretary 
Scared to Death
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as Jane Cornell
as Adele 
A Southern Yankee
as Hortense Dobson 
Sitting on the Moon
as Blossom 
Turnabout
as Irene Clare 
Valley of the Lawless
as Joan Jenkins 
Pillow to Post
as Gertrude Wilson (uncredited) 
Salute
as Marian Wilson 
Women Are Like That
as Miss Hall