Betty Compson
Betty Compson (born: Eleanor Luicime Compson; born March 19, 1897 in Beaver, Utah, † 18 April 1974 in Glendale, California ) was an American film actress of the silent film and early sound era
Career
Compson was the daughter of a mining engineer and began early on a career in theater and vaudeville, where she served as The Vagabond Violinist had successes. Her film career started in 1915 and they played numerous roles before with The Miracle Man 1919 alongside Lon Chaney to stardom. In 1923 she starred in woman against woman, for the Alfred Hitchcock wrote the screenplay with. In subsequent years, the actress was seen exclusively as a leading lady in B-movies. It was not until her role in Josef von Sternberg's The Docks of New York brought back Compson better roles. That same year, she appeared again alongside Chaney in The Big City with. The sound film helped her to a renewed career boost and for The Barker by George Fitzmaurice, she was nominated for the Academy Awards 1930 ( April ) for an Oscar as best actress. Under the direction of her then husband James Cruze Compson 1929 she played alongside Erich von Stroheim as the female lead in The Great Gabbo. After the attempt failed, to get at RKO a permanent contract, decreased the popularity of the actress and she found herself again on the status of a Supporting Actress reduced. Sample recordings of Compson for the role of prostitute Belle Watling were during the casting Gone with the Wind made to, but she lost the role at the end of Ona Munson.
After 1948 she retired completely from the film business and business with her second husband, a company called Ashtrays Unlimited.