Betty Compson Movies

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

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?...

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

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

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...

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...

Jewel thieves battle investigators.

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

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...

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...

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...

During World War I, German spies will stop at nothing to spy on the allied war plans stored at Gibraltar.

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...

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,...

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

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

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

The House That Shadows Built (1931) is a short feature, roughly 48 minutes long, from Paramount Pictures made to celebrate the 20th anniversary of...