Biographies: Joyce Compton - Actor

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An American actress was born in Lexington, Kentucky, USA, on January 27, 1907. She received a star on the Walk of Fame in 1960 for her film career. She married William Francis Kaliher (1955-1956) ,and the marriage lasted 3 months before their divorce. Her most important works are The Awful Truth (1937), Dark Alibi (1946), Christmas in Connecticut (1945), and Bedtime Story (1941). She appeared in a long string of low-production American B films from the mid-1920s to the late 1950s. After graduating from high school, she spent two years at the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma, studying drama, art, music, and dancing. When she won a beauty contest, she moved with her parents to Hollywood, where she spent two months in a film studio for training and made her first silent films Sally (1925) and The Golden Bed (1925). She became one of the stars of WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1926 alongside Joan Crawford, Dolores Costello, Dolores Del Rio, Janet Gaynor, Mary Astor, Mary Brian, and others. She played blonde roles, usually in nightclubs as a singer, waitress, or chorus girl. In the mid-fifties, she enjoyed a marriage for 3 months and separated to live with her parents. She quit acting, worked as a nurse, and pursued her hobbies in gardening, drawing, and designing clothes. She died on October 13, 1997 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

• 4 October 2021
• Christina Aziz