Betty Compson Movies

Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her...

Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.

Happily married for three years, Ann and David Smith live in New York. One morning Ann asks David if he had to do it over again, would he marry her?...

Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see and hear multiple silent-screen favorites for the...

Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with foreclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law, and four hard-to-explain corpses.

The town's leading citizen becomes a homicidal maniac after his wife deserts him.

Mort Bradley, New York political boss and underworld czar, controls not only the city's most popular nightclub but also much of the press; however,...

Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure.

With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to...

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...

Neil McRae, an impoverished composer, loves Cynthia Mason, but, fearing poverty, proposes to wealthy Gladys Cady. Can he compose himself and find the...

Roberta Morgan is being raised in a wealthy home where her mother is occupied with her society-club activities and her father is immersed in his...

Jewel thieves battle investigators.

A pair of nightclub owners run a string of escort bureaus where men pay for the "companionship" of young women. The district attorney sends an...

A gangster is put in prison, but finds salvation through music while serving his time. Again on the outside, he finds success elusive and temptations...

Newspaper editor (Foster) will do almost anything to increase circulation. He campaigns to free a condemned man while accusing a wealthy ex-criminal...

A blue-collar worker on New York's depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woman attempting suicide.

On a voyage to Nome, Roy Glenister, one of the several owners of a rich mine, The Midas, is captivated by Helen Chester, while he both fascinates and...

Johnny Harron is watching the Hollywood fire department football team playing a game and decides that he can round up some Hollywood actors that...

A policeman doubles as a gunman to get in with the mob.