List of the best Joyce Compton movies: I Take This Oath(1940), Suicide Squad(1935), Scared to Death(1947), Country Gentlemen(1936), Parisian Romance(1932), Three Girls Lost(1931), Escape to Paradise(1939), Under Eighteen(1932), Dark Alibi(1946), The Wild Party(1929), The Villain Still Pursued Her(1940), Salute(1929) ... ...
Crime, Drama
USA
1940
64 Minutes
The trials and tribulations of a group of newly sworn-in police officers.
Adventure
1935
70 Minutes
Horror
USA
1947
65 Minutes
Jane Cornell
Bela Lugosi Douglas Fowley Joyce Compton George Zucco Nat Pendleton Roland Varno Molly Lamont Angelo Rossitto Gladys Blake Lee Bennett Stanley Andrews
doctor husband wife magician dwarf daughter-in-law thrilling suspenseful frightful united states sanitarium house morgue mental illness marriage magic act family dysfunction imprisonment mystery 1940s
From a slab in the morgue, a dead young woman tells the bizarre tale of how she got there, through a maze of murder involving a hypnotist, a midget and a mysterious figure in a green mask.
Comedy
USA
1936
66 Minutes
Gertie
Ole Olsen Chic Johnson Lila Lee Joyce Compton Pierre Watkin Donald Kirke Ray Corrigan Sammy McKim Wade Boteler Ivan Miller Olin Howland
con artist secretary hotel owner deputy partner investor cheeky spirited playful amusing small town field hotel car chesterville oil kidnapping deception money crime
McAllister (Ole Olsen and Hamilton (Chic Johnson)are a couple of con-men who travel about the country selling worthless stock to small town citizens. They come to Chesterville where they ... See full summary »
Musical, Romance
1932
77 Minutes
Marcelle
Gilbert Roland Lew Cody Marion Shilling Joyce Compton Yola d'Avril Nicholas Soussanin George J. Lewis Bryant Washburn Helen Jerome Eddy Paul Porcasi James Eagles
Drama
USA
1931
72 Minutes
Edna Best
Architect Gordon Wales finds fellow apartment house resident Joan Marsh locked out and flirts with her. When she is murdered evidence points to him. He and Joan's roommate Noreen become ... See full summary »
Musical, Comedy
USA
1939
60 Minutes
Penelope Carter
Bobby Breen Kent Taylor Marla Shelton Rudolph Anders Joyce Compton Pedro de Cordoba Rosina Galli Anna Demetrio Francisco Maran Carlos Villarias
An American tourist in South America finds love and unexpected trouble.
Drama
USA
1932
80 Minutes
Sybil
Marian Marsh Warren William Anita Page Regis Toomey Norman Foster Joyce Compton J. Farrell MacDonald Claire Dodd
A poor seamstress girl sours on her engagement to a grocery deliveryman after seeing her sister's abusive marriage. Trying to help her sister pay for a divorce lawyer, she turns to a rich playboy she met at work.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
USA
1946
61 Minutes
Emily Evans
Sidney Toler Mantan Moreland Ben Carter Benson Fong Russell Hicks Joyce Compton Edward Earle Teala Loring George Holmes Janet Shaw Edna Holland
A public defender enlists Charlie to exonerate one of his clients, an ex-con falsely accused of bank robbery and murder, scheduled for execution in nine days.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1929
77 Minutes
Eva Tutt
Clara Bow Fredric March Marceline Day Shirley O'Hara Adrienne Dore Joyce Compton Jack Oakie Jack Luden Phillips Holmes Virginia Thomas Jean Lorraine
Wild girls at a college pay more attention to parties than their classes. But when one party girl, Stella Ames, goes too far at a local bar and gets in trouble, her professor has to rescue ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1940
66 Minutes
Hazel Dalton
Hugh Herbert Anita Louise Alan Mowbray Billy Gilbert Richard Cromwell Joyce Compton Buster Keaton Diane Fisher
The widow Wilson and her daughter Mary have just learned that old Mr. Middleton, who held the mortgage on their home, has passed away. They are now visited by Middleton's lawyer, Cribbs, ... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
USA
1929
83 Minutes
Marian Wilson
George O'Brien William Janney Frank Albertson Ward Bond Helen Chandler Joyce Compton Clifford Dempsey Lumsden Hare Stepin Fetchit David Butler
West Point Cadet John and Annapolis Midshipman Frank focus their fraternal rivalry on the big Army-Navy football game.
Musical, Romance
USA
1934
66 Minutes
Maxine Latour
Guy Robertson Irene Ware Edgar Kennedy Ferdinand Gottschalk Franklin Pangborn Joyce Compton Otis Harlan Lorin Raker William Orlamond Bodil Rosing
A theatrical troupe headed by a flashy showman finds itself in the tiny--and bankrupt--kingdom of Belgardia. The showman falls in love with the daughter of the dotty king, who has promised her to another. Complications ensue.
Drama, Romance
1933
67 Minutes
Gwen
Paul Lukas Leila Hyams Don Dillaway Ruth Donnelly George E. Stone Joyce Compton Jill Dennett Arthur Hoyt Gladys Blake Arthur Housman
Romance
USA
1941
85 Minutes
Beulah
Fredric March Loretta Young Robert Benchley Allyn Joslyn Eve Arden Helen Westley Joyce Compton Tim Ryan Olaf Hytten Dorothy Adams Clarence Kolb
playwright actress banker husband wife bellhop amusing witty endearing new york city broadway theater hotel hotel room reno, nev. divorce remarriage jealousy work-life balance romance love triangle
A playwright attempts to stop his wife from retiring so she can star in his next play.
Musical
USA
1939
102 Minutes
Masha
Nelson Eddy Ilona Massey Charles Ruggles Frank Morgan Lionel Atwill C. Aubrey Smith Joyce Compton Dalies Frantz Walter Woolf King Phillip Terry Frederick Worlock
A Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary activities fall in love.
Crime, Drama
1935
90 Minutes
Barbara
Richard Arlen Virginia Bruce Alice Brady Bruce Cabot Harvey Stephens Eric Linden Joyce Compton Gordon Jones
Comedy
USA
1937
92 Minutes
Dixie Belle Lee
Irene Dunne Cary Grant Ralph Bellamy Alex D'Arcy Cecil Cunningham Molly Lamont Esther Dale Joyce Compton Robert Allen Robert Warwick Mary Forbes
husband wife neighbor heiress music teacher mother amusing charming hilarious madcap new york city apartment marriage reconciliation divorce new love love transformation 1930s
A married couple file an amicable divorce, but find it harder to let go of each other than they initially thought.
Comedy
USA
1948
90 Minutes
Hortense Dobson
Red Skelton Brian Donlevy Arlene Dahl George Coulouris Lloyd Gough John Ireland Charles Dingle Joyce Compton
bellhop spy southern belle confederate soldier love interest amusing madcap united states battlefield hotel american civil war battle espionage romance impersonation adventure quest love 1860s
A hapless bellboy in a St. Louis hotel near the end of the Civil War is recruited by the Union secret service to impersonate a notorious Confederate spy.
Comedy, Other
USA
1945
101 Minutes
Mary Lee
Barbara Stanwyck Dennis Morgan Sydney Greenstreet Reginald Gardiner S.Z. Sakall Robert Shayne Una O'Connor Frank Jenks Joyce Compton Dick Elliott Betty Alexander
writer soldier chef editor publisher nurse lighthearted cheery new york city apartment connecticut farm kitchen barn christmas deception country life babies war heroes engagement
A food writer who has lied about being the perfect housewife must try to cover her deception when her boss and a returning war hero invite themselves to her home for a traditional family Christmas.
Crime, Drama
USA
1945
78 Minutes
Kate
Faye Emerson Zachary Scott Mona Freeman Richard Erdman Rosemary DeCamp Herman Brix John Ridgely Mary Servoss Joyce Compton Virginia Sale Addison Richards
con artist rich girl jealous woman mother widower professor suspenseful brooding gripping dark los angeles house murder inheritance greed revenge con game new identity revenge pursuit
A very romantic murderer has plans to seduce, marry and kill a beautiful woman for her wealth, but finds her younger sister to be even better prey.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1938
90 Minutes
Mrs. Johnson
Fredric March Joan Bennett Ann Sothern Ralph Bellamy Sidney Blackmer Thomas Mitchell Robert Elliott Richard Tucker Joyce Compton Patricia Farr Wilma Francis
detective womanizer sister woman suspect victim thrilling suspenseful frenetic san francisco hawaii ship asia murder investigation on the run chase reward suicide disguise escape
Kay Kerrigan commits a murder and then changes her hair color, assumes a new identity and flees the country by ship. She's unaware that she's being followed by Sam Wye, a skirt chasing ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1957
112 Minutes
Mrs. Simpson (uncredited)
John Wayne Janet Leigh Jay C. Flippen Paul Fix Richard Rober Roland Winters Hans Conried Ivan Triesault Joyce Compton Denver Pyle Elizabeth Flournoy
soviet pilot pilot officer commander soldier love interest sultry campy alaska air force base jet palm springs, calif. soviet union cold war communism flying duplicity espionage secret plans adventure
Air Force Colonel Jim Shannon is tasked to escort a defecting Soviet pilot who is scheming to lure Shannon to the USSR.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1939
84 Minutes
Joan
Dick Powell Anita Louise Allen Jenkins Ronald Reagan Walter Catlett Harold Huber Larry Williams Thurston Hall Minna Gombell Joyce Compton Robert Warwick
salesman boss beautiful woman aunt fan jockey lighthearted mellow store hotel party racetrack parade maryland horse racing impersonation wager advertising sabotage quest
A sports store clerk poses as a famous jockey as an advertising stunt, but gets more than he bargained for.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1934
80 Minutes
Loretta Young John Boles Dorothy Wilson Muriel Kirkland Astrid Allwyn Frank Conroy Jane Darwell Frank Melton Walter Johnson Sara Haden Joyce Compton
The title represents the hopeful, ambitious students at a hospital training school and is primarily a story of the stern discipline and laborious physical and mental toil they endure in ... See full summary »
Musical, Comedy
USA
1935
89 Minutes
Al Jolson Ruby Keeler Glenda Farrell Helen Morgan Barton MacLane Sharon Lynne Patsy Kelly Benny Rubin Phil Regan Gordon Westcott Joyce Compton
Al Howard may be a star on Broadway, but he is no longer welcomed by any producer. It seems that he just trots off to Mexico any time he wants causing shows to close and producers to lose ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1940
93 Minutes
George Raft Humphrey Bogart Ann Sheridan Ida Lupino Gale Page Alan Hale Roscoe Karns John Litel Henry O'Neill George Tobias Charles Halton
truck driver brother business owner wife girlfriend uneasy gritty suspenseful cool california courtroom false accusations murder mental breakdown brotherhood dangerous job affair forbidden love transformation 1940s
When one of two truck-driving brothers loses an arm, they both join a transport company where the other is falsely charged as an accessory in the murder of the owner.