Joyce Compton — Actor (25)
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Bedtime Story (1941) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Bedtime Story
director: Alexander Hall actor: Fredric March / Loretta Young …
other title: La vida empieza hoy / J'épouse ma femme
A Broadway playwright wants to keep on writing plays for his wife to star in, but all she wants is to retire to Connecticut and, following a few 'worlds-apart" discussion of the issue, they get a divorce. The actress marries a banker in a fit of pique only to quickly discover the divorce was not valid. She communicates this information to her not-yet ex-husband and he, to prevent consummation of the invalid marriage rescues her by sending plumbers, waiters, porters, chambermaids, bellhops, desk clerks, exterminators and, finally, a crowd of roistering conventioneers to the suite to ensure no bedtime story would take place there
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Born Reckless (1937) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Born Reckless
director: Malcolm St. Clair actor: Rochelle Hudson / Brian Donlevy …
Racketeer Jim Barnes is trying to force the independent taxicab-drivers to join his "protection service" at the cost of five bucks a day. Champion race-car driver, Bob Kane, joins with his friends Lee and "Dad" Martin in a fight for the street rights of a big city.
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Who Killed Aunt Maggie? (1940) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Who Killed Aunt Maggie?
director: Arthur Lubin actor: John Hubbard / Wendy Barrie …
When a much-despised matriarch is murdered, or apparently murdered, all of her relatives and "friends" fall under suspicion. Sheriff Gregory is the official investigator, but most of the clue gathering is done by amateur sleuths Kirk Pierce and Sally Ambler.
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Dark Alibi (1946) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Dark Alibi
director: Phil Karlson actor: Sidney Toler / Mantan Moreland …
other title: Charlie Chan e l'alibi oscuro / Charlie Chan: Ein fast perfektes Alibi
After three men are convicted of bank robberies, Charlie becomes suspicious. After some investigation Charlie finds the men are innocent and that the fingerprint evidence used to convict them had been forged. Charlie then proceeds to find the true bank robbers.
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Sky Murder (1940) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Sky Murder
director: George B. Seitz actor: Walter Pidgeon / Donald Meek …
This final Carter film is a lot of fun, with Nick (unwillingly, at first) taking on a ring of Fifth Columnists (since this was filmed before the US entered the war, we're not told the villains are Nazis, but it's pretty clear anyway). Of course, the helpful and persistent Bartholomew is at his side--much to Nick's irritation. To further complicate things--and to make them still funnier--Joyce Compton is along for the ride too, as a delightfully brainless "detective" named Christine Cross.
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Manpower (1941) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Manpower
director: Raoul Walsh actor: Edward G. Robinson / Marlene Dietrich …
other title: Fulminati / Herzen in Flammen …
Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and subsequently promoted to foreman of the gang. Tensions start to show in the road crew as rivalry between Hank and Johnny increases.
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Danger Signal (1945) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Danger Signal
director: Robert Florey actor: Faye Emerson / Zachary Scott …
other title: Delitti senza sangue / La señal del peligro
After robbing and murdering his married lover and then making her death look like suicide, conniving philanderer Ronnie Mason relocates to Los Angeles. Under a new identity and claiming to be a writer, Ronnie finds lodging at the home of Hilda Fenchurch and her mother. He woos Hilda, knowing she has money, but when he discovers that Hilda's sister, Anne, has just inherited $25,000, he switches his attentions to her.
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Christmas in Connecticut (1945) [Movie] WikiData IMDb Skybridge TMDB
Christmas in Connecticut
director: Peter Godfrey actor: Barbara Stanwyck / Dennis Morgan …
other title: Il sergente e la signora / Weihnachten nach Maß …
While recovering in a hospital, war hero Jefferson Jones grows familiar with the "Diary of a Housewife" column written by Elizabeth Lane. Jeff's nurse arranges with Elizabeth's publisher, Alexander Yardley, for Jeff to spend the holiday at Elizabeth's bucolic Connecticut farm with her husband and child. But the column is a sham, so Elizabeth and her editor, Dudley Beecham, in fear of losing their jobs, hasten to set up the single, childless and entirely nondomestic Elizabeth on a country farm.
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Country Gentlemen (1936) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Country Gentlemen
director: Ralph Staub actor: Ole Olsen / Chic Johnson …
After being run out of town after town for trying to sell worthless stock, two con artists breeze into the small town of Chesterville, where they find themselves accused of kidnapping a young boy to whom they offered a ride. When that misunderstanding is cleared up, the two conmen hatch a plot to unload all their worthless paper on the gullible citizens of Chesterville.
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Scared to Death (1947) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Scared to Death
director: Christy Cabanne actor: Bela Lugosi / George Zucco …
other title: Spaventato a morte / Mort de peur …
A woman is married to the son of a doctor, the proprietor of a private sanatorium, where she is under unwilling treatment. Both the son and the doctor indicate they want the marriage dissolved. Arriving at the scene is a mysterious personage identified as the doctor's cousin who formerly was a stage magician in Europe. He is accompanied by a threatening dwarf.
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Turnabout (1940) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Turnabout
director: Hal Roach actor: Adolphe Menjou / Carole Landis …
other title: L'errore del dio Chang / volte-face …
Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue who grants their wish and they wind up living each other's life.
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Imitation of Life (1934) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Imitation of Life
director: John M. Stahl actor: Claudette Colbert / Louise Beavers …
other title: Lo specchio della vita / Espelho da Vida …
A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.
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They Drive by Night (1940) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
They Drive by Night
director: Raoul Walsh actor: George Raft / Ann Sheridan …
other title: Strada maestra / Nachts unterwegs …
Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distributors, rivals and loan collectors, while trying to make a success of their transport company.
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The Wild Party (1929) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Wild Party
director: Dorothy Arzner actor: Clara Bow / Fredric March …
other title: L'allegra brigata / La loca orgía …
Wild girls at a college pay more attention to parties than their classes. But when one party girl, Stella Ames, goes too far at a local bar and gets in trouble, her professor has to rescue her. Gossip linking the two escalates until Stella proves she is decent by shielding an innocent girl and winning the professor's respect.
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Trapped by Television (1936) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Trapped by Television
director: Del Lord actor: Mary Astor / Lyle Talbot …
other title: Hvad Fjernsynet afslørede
An inventor looking for backing for his television invention gets involved with a crooked businessman and gangsters who try to steal his invention.
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Blues in the Night (1941) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Blues in the Night
director: Anatole Litvak actor: Priscilla Lane / Betty Field …
other title: El canto a la vida
A struggling band find themselves attached to a fugitive and drawn into a series of old feuds and love affairs, as they try to stay together and find musical success.
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The Villain Still Pursued Her (1940) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Villain Still Pursued Her
director: Edward F. Cline actor: Hugh Herbert / Anita Louise …
other title: Boire et Déboires / Die Unschuld und der Bösewicht
Victorian melodrama is sent up in this spoof of the old production "The Drunkard; or, The Fallen Saved." Dastardly villain Silas Cribbs schemes to get his lusty clutches on the virtuous heroine by driving her naïve husband to alcoholic ruin. Luckily, a temperance lecturer is on hand to set things straight, as is Buster Keaton as William Dalton, the drunkard's friend.