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Olivia Joyce Compton
Joyce Compton
Acting
Biography
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Olivia Joyce Compton (January 27, 1907 – October 13, 1997) was an American actress. Compton was born in Lexington, Kentucky. (Despite frequent reports to the contrary, her name was not originally "Eleanor Hunt"; she had appeared in the film Good Sport (1931) with Hunt and this confusion in an early press article followed Compton throughout her career.) After graduating high school she spent two years studying at the University of Tulsa, studying dramatics, art, music and dancing. She won a personality and beauty contest and spent two months in a film stu…
Known For
Filmography
Movies
Girl in the Woods
as Aunt Martha
Jet Pilot
as Mary Lou Simpson
The Persuader
as Julie
I Was a Burlesque Queen
as Mrs. Nunnally LaVitte
Mighty Joe Young
as Alice (uncredited)
Grand Canyon
as Mabel
Sorry, Wrong Number
as Cotterell's Blonde Girlfriend (uncredited)
A Southern Yankee
as Hortense Dobson
Incident
as Joan Manning
Scared to Death
as Jane Cornell
