Comedias de Joyce Compton
Películas de Joyce Compton filtradas por género
🎭 Mabel
0
1949
A film company is shooting a western on location when the star breaks his leg. A local mule herder, who had never acted before, is "shanghaied" into taking over the role. Complications ensue. ...
🎭 Hortense Dobson
5.2
1948
Red Skelton plays Aubrey Filmore, a feather-brained but lovable bellboy who dreams of becoming an agent for the Union's secret service during the Civil War. ...
🎭 Mrs. LaVitte
0
1947
A writer decides to join a burlesque show so that she can write an authentic expose of the business. ...
🎭 Jane Cornell
4.3
1947
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. A ...
🎭 Louise Grapa (uncredited)
6
1946
A homesick American soldier stationed in England during World War II makes an unauthorized trip to see his wife and returns to England with only two people knowing he was home for a few hours. W ...
🎭 Nurse Mary Lee
7
1945
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, Alexand ...
🎭 Joan Randall
5
1945
An aspiring playwright gets a job in a New York City restaurant favored by celebrities in hopes of getting a break. Unfortunately, most of them believe that the waiter lacks the talent to make it ...
🎭 Gertrude Wilson (uncredited)
5.5
1945
With a war on and most men being drafted, Howard Oil Supply Company has no salesmen left. So daughter Jean hits the road and does not make one sale. She finally gets one tentative sale with the B ...
🎭 Kitty Grogan
4.5
1943
The film is partly a parody of The Goodwill Court, a popular radio problem hosted by advice-dispenser "Mr. Anthony". The host of a "What's your problem?" radio hour tries to smooth the romantic p ...
🎭 Wiggin's Girl (uncredited)
4.5
1943
A soldier stationed on an army base and his fiancé, who runs a women's "fat farm" nearby, want to get married but don't have enough money. Three customers of the "fat farm" scheme to get back at ...
🎭 Lucille
5
1943
The management of touring ice show faces mounting debts. ...
🎭 Barbara Cartwright
4.8
1942
Thanks to a fib intended to ward off an annoying real estate developer, a young bachelor finds himself engaged to three different women and pursued by a fourth, a gangster's sister. ...
🎭 Beulah
6.1
1941
A Braodway 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 ...
🎭 Cecilia
0
1941
Marriage counselor advises his bored wife to take up painting through which she meets a hubbie-rival yachtsman. ...
🎭 Hazel Dalton
4.6
1940
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 b ...
🎭 Christine Cross / Her Twin Sister
🎭 Penelope Carter
4.2
1939
An American tourist in South America finds love and unexpected trouble. ...
🎭 Tourist
5.6
1939
In this short film, two starstruck movie fans hire a tour guide and see a plethora of Hollywood stars. ...
🎭 Joan
6
1938
A sports store clerk poses as a famous jockey as an advertising stunt, but gets more than he bargained for. ...
🎭 Mrs. Johnson
6.3
1938
After committing a murder, Kay assumes a new identity and boards a ship. But, Kay is unaware that Sam, a skirt chasing detective, is following her and must outwit him to escape imprisonment. ...
🎭 Chickie
3
1938
Buck Boswell and his all-girl troupe are stranded in Paris, but Buck manages to con the manager of the 'Hotel de Navarre' in furnishing accommodations for his group, but the proprietor's wife loc ...
🎭 Sally
3.9
1938
Harvard senior Sam Thatcher (Lew Ayres) and his best friend and roommate, known as "The Lippencott" (Burgess Meredith), plan to go to Russia after graduation, a decision Sam has kept from his gir ...
🎭 Benchley's girlfriend
4.8
1938
Humorist Robert Benchley illustrates the fine points of attending an American football game. ...
🎭 Curly Blonde
6.8
1938
Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight. Among his 'employed-prison-graduates' are Helen ...
🎭 Millie Brown
0
1938
This late entry in the popular "The Jones Family" series of '30s comedies has the family contending with a troublesome (and possibly crooked) uncle while trying to cut household expenses. ...
🎭 Dixie Belle Lee
7.2
1937
Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings, whereupon they start undermining each other's attempts to find new romance. ...
🎭 Mary Lou (uncredited)
5.8
1937
After the American Civil War, Jim Fisk, a former peddler and cotton smuggler, arrives in New York, along with his partners Nick and Luke, where he struggles to make his way through the treacherou ...
🎭 Newlywed
4.1
1937
A Cinderella story of a young country girl who comes to Hollywood and achieves movie stardom with the help of a publicity man. ...
🎭 Beulah
5.2
1937
In this musical set in swingin' Manhattan, an heiress plans a ballet in the famous Moonbeam ballroom located atop a 100-story skyscraper. Unfortunately, the attending audience is quite bored unti ...
🎭 Carrie
5.8
1937
A trio of American crooks board a ship bound for Europe, intending to get rid of $100,000 in stolen dough. With detective John Wade breathing down their necks, the crooks stash the loot in the tr ...
🎭 Evans' Secretary
6.4
1936
The three Craig sisters Penny, Kay, and Joan, go to New York to stop their divorced father from marrying gold digger Donna Lyons and re-unite him with their mother. ...
🎭 Gertie
6.5
1936
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 ...
🎭 Secretary (uncredited)
7
1936
A famous singer, bored with music and fans, goes to live in Mexico. His manager sends a woman to bring him back. They fall in love. ...
🎭 Blossom
6
1936
A successful songwriter and a struggling singer become involved professionally and romantically on the road to stardom. ...
🎭 Mary Lee
5.8
1936
Scott is a very rich businessman who hangs out with a snooty, silly Countess, but has the hots for Kay who is already engaged to Bill. Scott pursues Kay like crazy, going so far as to buy Bill's ...
🎭 Miss Compton
4
1935
Charley is hired to haunt a house. ...
🎭 Joyce
0
1935
Charley finds himself having strange spells during which everything around him seems to stop. ...
🎭 Joyce
0
1935
When Charley can't pay his bill at a restaurant, he is forced to become a waiter. ...
🎭 Jennie Taylor, Eddie's Wife
1
1934
Bobby Clark and Paul McCullough take to the streets as pots and pans salesmen, wreaking havoc door to door with their demonstrations of their cookware. ...
🎭 Maxine LaTour
3.5
1934
A theatrical troupe headed by a flashy showman finds itself in the tiny--and bankrupt--kingdom of Belgardia. The showman falls in love with the daughter of the dotty king, who has promised her to ...
🎭 Receptionist
5
1933
A singer on a gambling ship is married to a wealthy playboy. When he is found murdered, all evidence points to her as the culprit, and she is put on trial for the crime. ...
🎭 Dorothy
0
1933
Walter Catlett learns his son Ben Alexander has thrown over fiancee Joyce Compton for acrobat Nora Lane. He takes lawyer Arthur Housman to the road house where she is performing to lay down the l ...
🎭 Betty
5.5
1933
Walter Catlett is the cousin to some squeaky voiced Dagwood Bumstead type who can't get a girl. Can he browbeat his cousin into swiping pretty girl from accomplished gunman, boxer, and horseman F ...
🎭 Louise
0
1933
A Mack Sennett talking comedy, released through Paramount Pictures, starring Frank Albertson, Marjorie Beebe, Joyce Compton, Herman Bing, Gertrude Astor and Matt McHugh. ...
🎭 Betty
0
1933
Poor Walter Catlett messes up the wedding of Joyce Compton and, after botching his suicide attempt, rides along on her honeymoon at Aguas Caliente. Can he get for himself some CALIENTE LOVE at th ...
🎭 Mrs. Scissors Jackson
0
1933
Joyce Compton tries to help her new husband, Eddie Gribbon (as Scissors Jackson), win a wrestling match which he incorrectly thinks is framed in his favor. Wrestlers Hans Steinke plays the wrestl ...
🎭 Marie - Waitress (uncredited)
6.6
1932
An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory. ...
🎭 Fay
4.5
1932
Eddie Burke is a wise-guy pugilist whose talent is unevenly matched by his ego. Despite his character flaws, Eddie knows the meaning of loyalty. When his manager Doc Williams is offered the oppor ...
🎭 Kiki
2.6
1931
Marines Flagg and Quirt fought together in WWI and Panama. After some time in New York they go to Sweden and compete for the love of Else. Next they go to Nicaragua and help earthquake victims. T ...
🎭 Luella May Carroll
4.2
1931
The marriage of an advertising man is jeopardized when he gets a chance to sell a novel he's been working on and quits his job to concentrate on writing. In order to support the family, the wife ...
🎭 Diana Deane
3.7
1930
Lightnin' and Mary Jones are co-owners of a hotel built right on a state border, used by divorcing wives so they can pretend to be in California while establishing residency in Nevada. When Light ...
🎭 Betty - Larry's Wife
3.7
1930
Lightnin' y Mary son propietarios de un hotel en la frontera entre Nevada y California, muy utilizado para parejas que quieren divorciarse. Cuando unos gangsters quieren apoderarse del establecim ...
🎭 Eva 'Evie' Tutt
6.4
1929
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. G ...
🎭 Billie Wilson
0
1928
Nancy Woods, secretary to a divorce lawyer, is tantalized by the idea of collecting alimony payments, she marries Stockney Webb with the intention of fleecing him after the honeymoon. Realizing t ...
🎭 Virginia
0
1927
Nora, a department store clerk, is determined to succeed on the basis of her brain power despite her attractive ankles. She gets a job as model at the shop of McGuire and Goldberg, and they annou ...
🎭 Marge Adams
0
1926
Susan Adams, who works as a pianist in a Broadway music store, has ambitions for a stage career. Arthur Bennett, famous theater producer and successful star-maker, calls her into his office to co ...