Betty Compson — Actor (15)
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Skin Deep (1929) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Skin Deep
director: Ray Enright actor: Monte Blue / Betty Compson …
other title: L'Homme aux deux visages / 踊り子をめぐりて
Skin Deep is a 1929 American talking 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 Lambert Hillyer and starring Milton Sills. All copies of this film are now lost. However, the Vitaphone soundtrack, of music and effects, survive.
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Bulldog Edition (1936) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Bulldog Edition
director: Charles Lamont actor: Ray Walker / Evalyn Knapp …
Two rival newspapers are engaged in a circulation battle, complicated by the fact that a vicious gangster inserts himself into the middle of it. Also complicating matters is that one newspaper's editor and circulation director are competing for the affections of a pretty blonde reporter.
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The Case of Sergeant Grischa (1930) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Case of Sergeant Grischa
director: Herbert Brenon actor: Chester Morris / Betty Compson …
other title: 格里斯查中士之案 / El sargento Grischa
This film earned an Oscar nomination for Sound Recording. It is the only film nominated in this category that is among the lost. No negative or print material is known to have survived. Contemporary reviews were scathing, describing the film as a vastly overlong and boring talk-fest.
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Hard Boiled Mahoney (1947) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Hard Boiled Mahoney
director: William Beaudine actor: Leo Gorcey / Huntz Hall …
other title: 辣手神探马奥尼 / 辣手神探馬奧尼
Sach just lost his job as an assistant to a private detective, but he wasn't paid. Slip goes with him down to the detective's office to demand payment, but finds the office empty. A woman enters the office and mistakes Slip for the detective and convinces him to take on a case to find her sister after offering a $50 retainer.
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The Pony Express (1925) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Pony Express
director: James Cruze actor: Betty Compson / Ricardo Cortez …
other title: Los jinetes del correo / 駅馬車
The Pony Express is a silent 1925 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.
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Blondes at Work (1938) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Blondes at Work
director: Frank McDonald actor: Glenda Farrell / Barton MacLane …
When a rival newspaper publisher complains to his captain about possible collusion between himself and reporter Torchy Blane on scooping her rivals in crime news reporting, Det. Lt. Steve McBride determines to thwart her efforts to get inside information - and she determines to go on getting it, by whatever means necessary.
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Woman to Woman (1929) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Woman to Woman
director: Victor Saville actor: Betty Compson / George Barraud …
other title: 女人何苦为难男人 / De femme à femme
While on leave in WW I France an English officer and French cabaret star fall in love with one another and plan to marry. However, he is recalled to the front, wounded and has memory loss.
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The Lady Refuses (1931) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Lady Refuses
director: George Archainbaud actor: Betty Compson / John Darrow …
other title: 霧の夜嵐
A wealthy London nobleman hires a pretty but poor young woman to distract his playboy son from marrying a golddigger. Complications ensue when the girl and the father begin to fall for each other, and things get even more complicated when the son declares his love for her, too.
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False Pretenses (1935) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
False Pretenses
director: 查尔斯·拉蒙特 actor: Irene Ware / Sidney Blackmer …
A girl who's just lost her job meets a drunk millionaire on a bridge who's just lost his money. They go back to his house, and eventually come up with a plan to benefit them both: he'll scrounge enough money together to teach her how to be a lady, and then introduce her to his rich friends so she can snag a husband, after which she'll pay him a finder's fee. Complications ensue.