Betty Compson Movies

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

A jealous trapeze star decides he must eliminate his romantic rival.

Two rival newspapers are engaged in a circulation battle, complicated by the fact that a vicious gangster inserts himself into the middle of it. Also...

Madame Adele, once a great star of the Paris theatre, has fallen upon hard times. But she allows a young American performer, Marie Duval, to perform...

Lost film. David Compton leaves his expecting French girl-friend Louise Boucher, a dancer at the Moulin Rouge, for the war where he looses his...

The Masked Angel is a 1928 silent romantic drama film directed by Frank O'Connor.

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

Two thieves discover a professional and personal relationship when individual heist plans are thrown together by circumstance.

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 homeless and destitute violinist joins a combo to bring it success, but has problems with her love life.

Tropical "heat" drives a man into the arms of a disreputable tramp, making things tough for the woman who really loves him.

Documentary short film depicting the filmmaking activity at the Paramount Studios in Hollywood, featuring dozens of stars captured candidly and at...

A bank teller's love life falls apart when he's accused of embezzling.

Director Karl Brown's 1938 circus drama stars Marjorie Main as a tough, fur-coat-wearing circus boss who raises her orphaned niece to be a trapeze...

1991's NBC Halloween special with John Astin and Rhonda Shear. Features clips from classic horror movies with commentary.

A playboy takes a job as an assistant district attorney, finds himself up against a tough crime boss and his gang.

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...

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.

Eve's Secret is that she's not the elegant society woman she seems to be. In fact, Eve is an unkempt country girl who's been "transformed," Pygmalion...