Betty Compson
Escort Girl (1941)
Escort Girl is a 1941 American film directed by Edward E. Kaye; it is also known as Scarlet Virgin.
Starring: Margaret Marquis•Tom Moore•Claire McDowell
The Drag-Net (1936)
The Drag-Net is a 1936 American crime film directed by Vin Moore and starring Rod La Rocque, Marian Nixon and Betty Compson. It was made as a second feature at the Talisman Studios in Hollywood.
Starring: Allan Forrest•Margaret Marquis•Conway Tearle
Killer at Large (1936)
Killer at Large is a 1936 American mystery film directed by David Selman from a script by Harold Shumate, which stars Mary Brian, Russell Hardie, and George McKay.
Starring: Margaret Marquis•Bryant Washburn•Lowell Sherman
The Millionaire Kid (1936)
The Millionaire Kid is a 1936 American drama film produced and released by Reliable Pictures with former silent stars Bryant Washburn and Betty Compson in the leads and with several other familiar silent personalities in supporting roles.
Starring: Milton Sills•Margaret Marquis
Two Minutes to Play (1936)
Two Minutes to Play is a 1936 American sports comedy film directed by Robert F. Hill. Martin Granville (Brix), the son of a disgraced college football player, enrolls in his father's college and joins the football team after being charmed into it by the flirtatious Pat Meredith (Martel). He begins dating Meredith who, in turn, is dating several oth...
Starring: Margaret Marquis•Mahlon Hamilton•Earle Williams
Notorious But Nice (1933)
Notorious but Nice is a 1933 pre-Code American sound film drama directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Marian Marsh and Betty Compson. It was produced and distributed by B movie studio Chesterfield Motion Pictures.
Starring: Margaret Marquis•Theodore von Eltz•William Desmond
West of Singapore (1933)
West of Singapore is a 1933 American pre-Code drama film directed by Albert Ray and starring Betty Compson, Weldon Heyburn and Margaret Lindsay.
Starring: Margaret Marquis•Anna Q. Nilsson•Wallace Beery
The Silver Lining (1932)
The Silver Lining is a 1932 American pre-Code comedy film directed by Alan Crosland and written by Claire Corvalho and Gertrude Orr. Starring Maureen O'Sullivan, Betty Compson, John Warburton, and Montagu Love. it was released on April 16, 1932, by United Artists.
Starring: Margaret Marquis•Jack Holt
The Lady Refuses (1931)
The Lady Refuses is a 1931 American pre-Code melodrama film, directed by George Archainbaud, from a screenplay by Wallace Smith, based on an original story by Guy Bolton and Robert Milton. It stars Betty Compson as a destitute young woman on the verge of becoming a prostitute, who is hired by a wealthy man to woo his ne'er-do-well son away from the...
Starring: Adolphe Menjou•Margaret Marquis•Richard Barthelmess
Three Who Loved (1931)
Three Who Loved is a 1931 American Pre-Code drama film directed by George Archainbaud from a screenplay by Beulah Marie Dix based on a story by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Martin Flavin. The film revolves around a love triangle. It was produced by RKO Pictures, which also distributed the film, releasing it on July 3, 1931.
Starring: Wallace MacDonald•Margaret Marquis
The Virtuous Husband (1931)
The Virtuous Husband is a 1931 American pre-Code comedy film directed by Vin Moore and written by Jerry Horwin, Edward Ludwig, Fred Niblo, Jr. and Dale Van Every. The film stars Betty Compson, Elliott Nugent, Jean Arthur, J. C. Nugent, Alison Skipworth and Tully Marshall. The film was released on April 12, 1931 by Universal Pictures.
Starring: Margaret Marquis•Kenneth Harlan•Richard Rosson
The Boudoir Diplomat (1930)
The Boudoir Diplomat is a 1930 American pre-Code romantic comedy film directed by Malcolm St. Clair, produced and distributed by Universal Pictures, from the play The Command To Love by Fritz Gottwald and Rudolph Lothar.
Starring: Margaret Marquis•May McAvoy
The Case of Sergeant Grischa (1930)
The Case of Sergeant Grischa is a 1930 American pre-Code drama film directed by Herbert Brenon, based on the German novel of the same name by Arnold Zweig. John Tribby was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Sound Recording. No known copy of this film exists and is considered lost, the only sound film to have been nominated for an Oscar and sub...
Starring: Margaret Marquis•John Davidson
The Czar of Broadway (1930)
The Czar of Broadway is a 1930 American pre-Code crime film produced and distributed by Universal Pictures, directed by William James Craft and starring John Wray, Betty Compson, John Harron and Claud Allister.
Starring: Margaret Marquis•Leatrice Joy•Lila Lee
Inside the Lines (1930)
Inside the Lines is a 1930 American pre-Code spy drama film starring Betty Compson, Ralph Forbes, and Mischa Auer. It was directed by Roy Pomeroy from a screenplay by John Farrow and Ewart Adamson, which in turn was based on the 1915 Broadway play of the same name by Earl Derr Biggers. This version is a remake of the 1918 silent version, also with ...
Starring: Percy Marmont•Margaret Marquis•Gareth Hughes
Midnight Mystery (1930)
Midnight Mystery is a 1930 American pre-Code mystery film directed by George B. Seitz, from a screenplay by Beulah Marie Dix, which was adapted from the play Hawk Island by Howard Irving Young. Betty Compson starred, leading an ensemble cast which included Hugh Trevor, Lowell Sherman, Rita La Roy, Ivan Lebedeff, Raymond Hatton, June Clyde and Marce...
Starring: Margaret Livingston•Margaret Marquis
She Got What She Wanted (1930)
She Got What She Wanted is an American pre-Code early talking film comedy-drama directed by James Cruze and starring his actress wife Betty Compson. The film was made for Tiffany Pictures with Cruze and Compson having recently completed The Great Gabbo (1929).
Starring: Margaret Marquis•William P. Carleton
Those Who Dance (1930)
Those Who Dance is a 1930 American Pre-Code crime film produced and distributed by Warner Bros., directed by William Beaudine, and starring Monte Blue, Lila Lee, William "Stage" Boyd and Betty Compson. It is a remake of the 1924 silent film Those Who Dance starring Bessie Love and Blanche Sweet. The story, written by George Kibbe Turner, was based ...
Starring: Ricardo Cortez•Richard Dix•Margaret Marquis
The Great Gabbo (1929)
The Great Gabbo is a 1929 American Pre-Code early sound musical drama film directed by James Cruze, based on Ben Hecht's 1928 short story "The Rival Dummy", and starring Erich von Stroheim and Betty Compson. The film features songs by Lynn Cowan, Paul Titsworth, Donald McNamee and King Zany.
Starring: Warner Baxter•Margaret Marquis
On with the Show! (1929)
On with the Show! is a 1929 American pre-Code musical film produced by Warner Bros. Filmed in two-color Technicolor, the film is noted as the first all-talking, all-color feature length film, and the second color film released by Warner Bros.; the first was the partly color, black-and-white musical The Desert Song (1929).
Starring: Margaret Marquis•Mary Astor
Scarlet Seas (1929)
Scarlet Seas is a surviving 1929 American silent romantic adventure film produced by Richard A. Rowland and distributed by First National Pictures. The picture was directed by John Francis Dillon. It starred Richard Barthelmess, Betty Compson, and a teen-aged Loretta Young. This film was released with a Vitaphone soundtrack of music and effects whi...
Starring: Grant Withers•Margaret Marquis•Marian Nixon
Skin Deep (1929)
Skin Deep is a 1929 American pre-Code drama film directed by Ray Enright and starring Monte Blue. It was produced and distributed by the Warner Brothers. It was also released in the U.S. in a silent version for theaters not equipped yet with sound. The film is a remake of a 1922 Associated First National silent film of the same name directed by Lam...
Starring: Ricardo Cortez•Margaret Marquis•Jean Arthur
Street Girl (1929)
Street Girl is a 1929 pre-Code musical film directed by Wesley Ruggles and starring Betty Compson, John Harron and Jack Oakie. It was adapted by Jane Murfin from "The Viennese Charmer", a short story by William Carey Wonderly. While it was the first film made by RKO Radio Pictures, its opening was delayed until after Syncopation, making it RKO's se...
Starring: Margaret Marquis•Lawford Davidson
The Time, the Place and the Girl (1929)
The Time, the Place and the Girl is a 1929 American pre-Code black-and-white musical film directed by Howard Bretherton and starring Grant Withers and Betty Compson. It is based on the 1907 musical play of the same name. It is not related to the 1946 musical film of The Time, the Place and the Girl.
Starring: Margaret Marquis•Mary Brian
Weary River (1929)
Weary River is a 1929 American romantic drama film directed by Frank Lloyd and starring Richard Barthelmess, Betty Compson, and William Holden. Produced and distributed by First National Pictures, the film, like many made during the changeover from silent to sound movies, is mostly silent with a few sequences featuring synchronized dialogue and sin...
Starring: Grant Withers•Margaret Marquis
Woman to Woman (1929)
Woman to Woman is a 1929 British drama film directed by Victor Saville and starring Betty Compson, George Barraud and Juliette Compton. It is an adaptation of the 1921 play Woman to Woman by Michael Morton which had already been made in 1923 into a now-lost film. The 1929 version survives and unrestored copies are available on unofficial DVDs and s...
Starring: Margaret Marquis•Joe E. Brown
The Big City (1928)
The Big City is a 1928 American silent crime film directed by Tod Browning and starring Lon Chaney. Waldemar Young wrote the screenplay, based on a story by Tod Browning. The film is now lost.
Starring: Loretta Young•Margaret Marquis•Lee Tracy
Court Martial (1928)
Court Martial is a 1928 American silent film war drama film directed by George B. Seitz, starring Jack Holt, Betty Compson as Belle Starr, and Frank Austin as Abraham Lincoln, and released by Columbia Pictures.
Starring: Claud Allister•Margaret Marquis
The Desert Bride (1928)
The Desert Bride is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by Walter Lang and starring Betty Compson and Allan Forrest. The film is considered to be lost.
Starring: George Barraud•Margaret Marquis
The Docks of New York (1928)
The Docks of New York is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by Josef von Sternberg and starring George Bancroft, Betty Compson, and Olga Baclanova. The movie was adapted by Jules Furthman from the John Monk Saunders story The Dock Walloper.
Starring: Margaret Marquis•Betty Carter•Maureen O'Sullivan
Life's Mockery (1928)
Life's Mockery is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by Robert F. Hill and starring Betty Compson. It was produced by independent studio Chadwick Pictures who also distributed.
Starring: Rochelle Hudson•Margaret Marquis
Love Me and the World Is Mine (1928)
Love Me and the World Is Mine is a 1928 American silent romantic film directed by Ewald André Dupont and released by Universal Pictures.
Starring: Margaret Marquis•Elliott Nugent
The Masked Angel (1928)
The Masked Angel is a lost 1928 silent film romantic drama directed by Frank O'Connor and starring Betty Compson. It was produced and distributed by independent studio Chadwick Pictures.
Starring: Edward Nugent•Margaret Marquis
Cheating Cheaters (1927)
Cheating Cheaters is a lost 1927 American silent film produced and distributed by Universal Pictures. It was directed by Edward Laemmle and starred Betty Compson.
Starring: Weldon Heyburn•Margaret Marquis
The Ladybird (1927)
The Ladybird is a 1927 American silent crime film directed by Walter Lang and starring Betty Compson. It was produced by the B movie studio Chadwick Pictures. A print is housed in the Library of Congress collection.
Starring: Margaret Marquis•Bruce Bennett
Say It with Diamonds (1927)
Say It with Diamonds is a 1927 American silent drama film starring Betty Compson and Earle Williams, an early Vitagraph leading man and matinee idol. Directed by Jack Nelson and Arthur Gregor, this film is Williams's final screen performance before his death in April 1927.
Starring: Robert Kellard•Margaret Marquis
Temptations of a Shop Girl (1927)
Temptations of a Shop Girl is a lost 1927 silent crime drama directed by Tom Terriss, with Betty Compson and Pauline Garon leading the cast. B-movie studio Chadwick Pictures was the production company.
Starring: Margaret Marquis•Herbert Rawlinson
The Belle of Broadway (1926)
The Belle of Broadway is a 1926 American silent romantic drama film produced and distributed by Columbia Pictures. It was directed by Harry O. Hoyt and starred Betty Compson.
Starring: Tom Moore•Margaret Marquis
The Palace of Pleasure (1926)
The Palace of Pleasure is a 1926 American silent drama film directed by Emmett J. Flynn and written by Benjamin Glazer and Bradley King. The film stars Betty Compson, Edmund Lowe, Henry Kolker, Harvey Clark, Nina Romano, and Francis McDonald. The film was released on January 10, 1926, by Fox Film Corporation.
Starring: Richard Rosson•Margaret Marquis
The Wise Guy (1926)
The Wise Guy is a 1926 American silent crime drama film produced and directed by Frank Lloyd and distributed through First National Pictures. Jules Furthman provided a screen story with scenario by Adela Rogers St. Johns. Mary Astor, James Kirkwood, and Betty Compson star.
Starring: Margaret Marquis•House Peters
Counsel for the Defense (1925)
Counsel for the Defense is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Burton L. King and starring Jay Hunt, Betty Compson, and House Peters. It is based on the 1912 novel of the same name by Leroy Scott.
Starring: Conway Tearle•Margaret Marquis•Milton Sills
Eve's Secret (1925)
Eve's Secret is a 1925 American silent romantic comedy film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and released by Paramount Pictures. It is based on a Broadway play, Moon-Flower, by Zoë Akins, adapted from a Hungarian play by Lajos Bíró. On Broadway Elsie Ferguson starred. Clarence Badger directed Betty Compson and Jack Holt.
Starring: Claud Allister•Margaret Marquis
Locked Doors (1925)
Locked Doors is a 1925 American silent romantic drama film directed by William C. deMille and starring Betty Compson. It was produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures.
Starring: Rochelle Hudson•Margaret Marquis
New Lives for Old (1925)
New Lives for Old is a 1925 American silent drama film that was produced by Famous Players-Lasky, directed by Clarence G. Badger, and starred Betty Compson.
Starring: Mahlon Hamilton•Margaret Marquis
Paths to Paradise (1925)
Paths to Paradise is a 1925 silent comedy directed by Clarence Badger, produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film is based on a 1914 play, The Heart of a Thief, by Paul Armstrong, and stars Raymond Griffith and Betty Compson. The film was lost for many decades until an incomplete print surfaced in the 1970s. Es...
Starring: Margaret Marquis•Monroe Salisbury
The Pony Express (1925)
The Pony Express is a 1925 American silent Western film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film was directed by James Cruze and starred his wife, Betty Compson, along with Ricardo Cortez, Wallace Beery, and George Bancroft. Prints of this film survive, and it has been released on DVD.
Starring: William Desmond•Margaret Marquis•Anna Q. Nilsson
The Enemy Sex (1924)
The Enemy Sex is a 1924 American silent drama film starring Betty Compson and directed by her husband James Cruze. It was produced by Famous Players-Lasky and released by Paramount Pictures. It is taken from the 1914 novel The Salamander by Owen Johnson.
Starring: Wallace Beery•Margaret Marquis
The Fast Set (1924)
The Fast Set is a 1924 American silent comedy-drama film directed by William C. deMille and starring Betty Compson. The film is based on the 1923 Broadway play, Spring Cleaning, by Frederick Lonsdale.
Starring: Edmund Lowe•Margaret Marquis
The Female (1924)
The Female is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by Sam Wood and starring Betty Compson, Warner Baxter, and Noah Beery. It is based on the novel Dalla, the Lion Cub by Cynthia Stockley.
Starring: Margaret Marquis•Emory Johnson
The Garden of Weeds (1924)
The Garden of Weeds is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by James Cruze and starring Betty Compson. It is based on the Broadway play Garden of Weeds by Leon Gordon and Doris Marquette. Famous Players-Lasky produced and Paramount Pictures distributed.
Starring: Margaret Marquis•Emory Johnson
Miami (1924)
Miami is a 1924 American silent society melodrama film directed by Alan Crosland and distributed by W. W. Hodkinson. The film stars Betty Compson and Hedda Hopper.
Starring: Margaret Marquis•Adolphe Menjou
Ramshackle House (1924)
Ramshackle House is a 1924 American silent romantic drama film directed by F. Harmon Weight and starring Betty Compson. It is based on the novel Ramshackle House by Hulbert Footner. It was released by Producers Distributing Corporation (PDC).
Starring: Ralph Lewis•Margaret Marquis
The Stranger (1924)
The Stranger is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by Joseph Henabery and starring Betty Compson and Richard Dix. It is based on a 1918 novel, The First and the Last, by John Galsworthy. It was produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed through Paramount Pictures.
Starring: Margaret Marquis•May McAvoy
The Rustle of Silk (1923)
The Rustle of Silk is a 1923 American silent romantic drama film directed by Herbert Brenon and starring Betty Compson. It was produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It is based on the 1922 novel by writer Cosmo Hamilton.
Starring: Nigel Barrie•Mitchell Lewis•Margaret Marquis
The White Flower (1923)
(For a similar-sounding film from the same year by D. W. Griffith, see The White Rose)
Starring: Richard Rosson•Margaret Marquis
Always the Woman (1922)
Always the Woman is a 1922 American silent romance drama film produced by and starring Betty Compson and directed by Arthur Rosson.
Starring: Bert Lytell•Margaret Marquis
The Bonded Woman (1922)
The Bonded Woman is an extant 1922 American silent drama film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It was directed by Phil Rosen and stars Betty Compson, John Bowers, and Richard Dix.
Starring: John Davidson•Margaret Marquis
The Green Temptation (1922)
The Green Temptation is a lost 1922 American silent melodrama film directed by William Desmond Taylor and starring Betty Compson. It was written by Julia Crawford Ivers and Monte Katterjohn based upon the short story "The Noose" by Constance Lindsay Skinner.
Starring: Margaret Marquis•Leatrice Joy
Kick In (1922)
Kick In is a 1922 American silent crime drama film produced by Famous Players-Lasky, distributed by Paramount Pictures, and starring Betty Compson and Bert Lytell. The picture was directed by George Fitzmaurice, who previously directed a 1917 film version of the story. Both films are based on Willard Mack's 1913 play that was produced on Broadway i...
Starring: Percy Marmont•Gareth Hughes•Margaret Marquis
The Law and the Woman (1922)
The Law and the Woman is a lost 1922 American silent drama film directed by Penrhyn Stanlaws and starring Betty Compson. This film is a version of Clyde Fitch's play The Woman in the Case and a remake of a 1916 silent version The Woman in the Case starring Pauline Frederick. Jesse Lasky produced.
Starring: Margaret Marquis•George Hackathorne
Over the Border (1922)
Over The Border is a lost American drama film released by Paramount Pictures in 1922. It stars Betty Compson and Tom Moore in a story about "love and thrills beneath the northern lights". It was adapted from Sir Gilbert Parker's "She of the Triple Chevron".
Starring: William P. Carleton•Margaret Marquis
To Have and to Hold (1922)
To Have and to Hold is a 1922 American silent historical drama film. Based on the 1899 novel of the same name, the film was directed by George Fitzmaurice and starred Bert Lytell and Betty Compson.
Starring: Theodore Kosloff•Margaret Marquis
At the End of the World (1921)
At the End of the World is a 1921 American silent action drama film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It is based on the play At the End of the World by Ernst Klein and starred Betty Compson and Milton Sills.
Starring: Richard Dix•Warner Baxter•Margaret Marquis
For Those We Love (1921)
For Those We Love is a 1921 American silent romantic drama film produced by and starring Betty Compson, and featuring Lon Chaney and Richard Rosson. Written and directed by Arthur Rosson, the film was based on a story by Perley Poore Sheehan (who later co-wrote the script for Chaney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame. The film was distributed by Goldwyn...
Starring: Loretta Young•Mary Astor•Margaret Marquis
Ladies Must Live (1921)
Ladies Must Live is a 1921 American silent societal drama film directed by George Loane Tucker and released by Paramount Pictures. It was the last directorial effort of George Loane Tucker and was released four months after his death. Betty Compson stars along with Leatrice Joy, John Gilbert and Mahlon Hamilton. It was one of the few instances wher...
Starring: Pauline Garon•Ricardo Cortez•Margaret Marquis
The Little Minister (1921)
The Little Minister is a 1921 American silent drama film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It is based on an 1891 novel and 1897 play by J. M. Barrie. Betty Compson stars in the film. Earlier film adaptations of Barrie's novel were mad and this one was released within weeks of a version by Vitagraph starring Al...
Starring: Raymond Griffith•Margaret Marquis•Lawford Davidson
Prisoners of Love (1921)
Prisoners of Love is a lost 1921 American silent drama film produced by and starring Betty Compson and distributed by Goldwyn Pictures. It was directed by Arthur Rosson and was Compson's first film after a year's hiatus from film making.
Starring: Jay Hunt•Monroe Salisbury•Margaret Marquis
The Miracle Man (1919)
The Miracle Man is a 1919 American silent drama film starring Lon Chaney and based on a 1914 play by George M. Cohan, which in turn is based on the novel of the same title by Frank L. Packard. The film was released by Paramount Pictures, directed, produced, and written by George Loane Tucker, and also stars Thomas Meighan and Betty Compson. The fil...
Starring: Loretta Young•Margaret Marquis