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...

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?...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

A successful carnival barker deals with the arrival of his eager son, who he'd hoped would stay far from the carnival world, his son's entanglement...

A dancehall girl meets a sailor and they fall in love, but the club’s owner doesn’t want the girl to leave.

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...

For the ventriloquist Gabbo his wooden dummy Otto is the only means of expression. When he starts relying more and more on Otto, he starts going mad.

A group of people are stuck on a schooner in the middle of the Pacific with no wind.

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...

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...

When a rival newspaper publisher complains to his captain about possible collusion between himself and reporter Torchy Blane on scooping her rivals...

A blundering rookie reporter runs into some unexpected difficulty when he is assigned to cover the police beat.

With unpaid actors and staff, the stage show Phantom Sweetheart seems doomed. To complicate matters, the box office takings have been robbed and the...

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...

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