Highest rated movie: The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Lowest rated movie: Scared to Death (1947)
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Movies starring Joyce Compton have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 62%.
The Best Years of Our Lives - released in 1946 - is Joyce Compton's highest rated movie, with a score of 85% based on 536 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Joyce Compton is Scared to Death - released in 1947 - with a score of 33% based on 18 reviews.
Olivia Joyce Compton (January 27, 1907 – October 13, 1997) was an American actress. Compton was born in Lexington, Kentucky. (Despite frequent reports to the contrary, her name was not originally "Eleanor Hunt"; she had appeared in the film Good Sport (1931) with Hunt and this confusion in an early press article followed Compton throughout her career.) After graduating high school she spent two years studying at the University of Tulsa, studying dramatics, art, music and dancing. She won a personality and beauty contest and spent two months in a film studio as an extra.
Compton first made a name for herself when she was named one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1926, alongside Mary Brian, Dolores Costello, Joan Crawford, Dolores del Río, Janet Gaynor and Fay Wray. Compton appeared in a long string of mostly B-movies from the 1920s through the 1950s. She was a comedy actress and protested at being stereotyped as a "dumb blonde".
Among her over two hundred films were Imitation of Life, Magnificent Obsession, The Awful Truth, Mildred Pierce, and The Best Years of Our Lives.
A devout Christian, on her gravestone, just beneath her dates of birth and death, is written "Christian Actress". She died from natural causes, aged 90, and was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in the Hollywood Hills.
Joyce Compton has acted in films with Bess Flowers, Larry Steers, Bert Moorhouse and Jack Mower.
Joyce Compton has worked with these film directors: Anatole Litvak, Michael Curtiz, Edward Sedgwick and William Wyler.
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