Betty Compson Movies

With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to...

Hubby's mother in law injects him with the nature of the house-cat.

A blue-collar worker on New York's depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woman attempting suicide.

Lost film. David Compton leaves his expecting French girl-friend Louise Boucher, a dancer at the Moulin Rouge, for the war where he looses his...

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...

Tropical "heat" drives a man into the arms of a disreputable tramp, making things tough for the woman who really loves him.

Director Karl Brown's 1938 circus drama stars Marjorie Main as a tough, fur-coat-wearing circus boss who raises her orphaned niece to be a trapeze...

Documentary short film depicting the filmmaking activity at the Paramount Studios in Hollywood, featuring dozens of stars captured candidly and at...

A homeless and destitute violinist joins a combo to bring it success, but has problems with her love life.

1919 Western serial.

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...

While on their honeymoon, a reporter and his new bride stumble upon a ring of fifth columnists.

A policeman doubles as a gunman to get in with the mob.

Try & Helpus are two junk dealers, who have to raise five hundred to pay the rent which the villainous landlord demands. Various times the five...

Two thieves discover a professional and personal relationship when individual heist plans are thrown together by circumstance.

The House That Shadows Built (1931) is a short feature, roughly 48 minutes long, from Paramount Pictures made to celebrate the 20th anniversary of...

Madame Adele, once a great star of the Paris theatre, has fallen upon hard times. But she allows a young American performer, Marie Duval, to perform...

In Paris, a wild girl becomes possessed by the soul of her twin who died to save her life.

Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her...

A carnival huckster who decides to turn pennies into dollars by passing himself off as a hellfire-and-brimstone evangelist.