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:''For the actress who married NYC Mayor Jimmy Walker, see Betty Compton.'' Betty Compson (March 19, 1897 – April 18, 1974) was an American actress and film producer. Born Eleanor Luicime Compson in Beaver, Utah, she had an extensive film career. Her father died when she was young, and she was forced to drop out of school and earn a living for herself and her mother. She obtained employment as a violinist at a theater in Salt Lake City, Utah. ==Silent films== Compson began in silents with her first film in November 1915. She made 41 films in 1916 alone, although all of them were shorts for Al Christie with the exception of one feature ''Almost a Widow''. She continued this pace of making numerous short films well into the middle of 1918 when after a long apprenticeship with Christie she started making features exclusively. She completed ''The Miracle Man'' (1919) for George Loane Tucker. Compson's rise as a star in motion pictures began with her portrayal of ''Rose'' in this production. In 1920, she began to head her own company. She worked at the Hollywood Brunton studio and acquired three stories for films. Compson returned from New York City where she obtained financial backing for her motion picture productions. Her first movie as producer was ''Prisoners of Love'' (1921). She played the role of ''Blanche Davis'', a girl born to wealth and cursed by her inheritance of physical beauty. Compson selected Art Rosson to direct the feature. The story was chosen from a work by Catherine Henry. Compson worked for the Christie Company as a newcomer in films, followed by Famous Players-Lasky. After completing ''The Woman With Four Faces'' (1923) she signed with a motion picture company in London, England. There she starred in a series of four films directed by Graham Cutts, a well-known English filmmaker. The first of these was a movie version of an English play called ''Woman to Woman'' (1923), the screenplay for which was co-written by Cutts and Alfred Hitchcock. In 1928, she appeared in ''Court-Martial'' as Belle Starr, and in ''The Barker'', a silent movie which contained some talking scenes. Compson was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in ''The Barker''. Mainly due to this success, she became one of the busiest actors in the new talking cinema. Unlike a number of other female stars of silent film, it was felt that her voice recorded exceptionally well. Although she was not a singer, she appeared in a number of early musicals, in which her singing voice was dubbed. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Betty Compson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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