Joyce Compton

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Biography

American film actress

  • Primary profession
  • Actress·soundtrack
  • Country
  • United States
  • Nationality
  • American
  • Gender
  • Female
  • Birth date
  • 27 January 1907
  • Place of birth
  • Lexington· Kentucky
  • Death date
  • 1997-10-13
  • Death age
  • 90
  • Place of death
  • Los Angeles
  • Education
  • University of Tulsa

Movies

Trivia

She had to use her own gowns, furs and jewels in many of the low budget movies she appeared in.

Worked in two-reel comedies for Mack Sennett and later played dumb blonde foils for such comics as Bobby Clark , Paul McCullough and Charley Chase.

Was a good, off-the-set friend of actress Clara Bow.

She was a WAMPAS Baby Star of 1926, along with Mary Astor , Mary Brian , Dolores Costello , Joan Crawford , Marceline Day , Dolores del Rio , Janet Gaynor and Fay Wray , amongst others.

Her parents saw her movie star potential and moved the family from Oklahoma to Hollywood.

She was briefly engaged to Joel McCrea in the late 1920s.

Specialised in playing dizzy blondes, usually night club singers, waitresses or chorines.

A beauty contest winner, she appeared in films from 1925. Apart from a three-months spell of married bliss in 1956, she lived with her parents. She eventually quit acting to become a part-time nurse.

Good-looking, blond-haired actress, typically in roles conveying severe brainpower deprivation, in US films from 1925 through the early 50s.

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