
Joyce Compton
Oyuncu · 1907 – 1997 · Lexington, Kentucky, USA
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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 studio as an extra. Compton first made a name for herself when she was named one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1926, alongside Mary Brian, Dolores Costello, Joan Crawford, Dolores del Río, Janet Gaynor and Fay Wray. Compton appeared in a long string of mostly B-movies from the 1920s through the 1950s. She was a comedy actress and protested at being stereotyped as a "dumb blonde". Among her over two hundred films were Imitation of Life, Magnificent Obsession, The Awful Truth, Mildred Pierce, and The Best Years of Our Lives. A devout Christian, on her gravestone, just beneath her dates of birth and death, is written "Christian Actress". She died from natural causes, aged 90, and was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in the Hollywood Hills.
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Film7.7DramRomantikBirbirlerinden sınıfları, geçmişleri, yaş ve meslekleriyle ayrılan üç eski Amerikan askeri ve onların yeniden sivil hayata ayak uydururken karşılaştıkları sorunlar üzerine dokunaklı bir savaş sonrası destan... Bu üç adam, II. Dünya Savaşı sonunda yaşadıkları kente geri dönerler; başarılı bankacı Al, güvenli yaşamına; eskiden bir garson olup savaşta hava kuvvetlerinde yüzbaşılığa yükselmiş Fred, savaş sırasında evlendiği ve pek iyi tanımadığı eşiyle endişe veren kavuşmaya; eskiden öğrenci olup savaşta kollarını kaybeden Homer ise, sevgilisinin sakatlığına vereceği tepki konusundaki şüphelerine. Bunlardan ikisi geri dönüşte başarılı olacaktır: eskiden olduğu gibi yemekli toplantılarda konuşmalar yapan Al genç bir çiftçiye teminatsız kredi vermeye çekinmez; Homer’in sevgilisi onu hayal kırıklığına uğratmaz; kimsenin kabul etmediği Fred ise toplumun dışında kalacaktır, hayatının en güzel yıllarını geride bırakmıştır...
Film6.4MaceraFantastikJill Young, küçüklüğünden beri birlikte olduğu goril arkadaşı Joe ile Afrika'da mutlu bir yaşam sürmektedir. Ta ki eğlence dünyasının ünlü ismi Max O'Hara, yeni açtığı gece kulübünde aslanlara ve egzotik unsurlara yer verebilmek amacıyla Afrika'ya gelene kadar. Max O'Hara, Jill'e goriliyle birlikte Amerika'ya gelmesi ve gösteriler yapması için bir anlaşma teklif eder. O'Hara'nın vaadlerinden ve bahsettiği ışıltılı yaşamdan etkilenen Jill, Amerika'ya gelmeyi kabul eder. Ancak işler hiç de Jill'in zannettiği kadar kolay olmayacaktır.
Film7.6SuçDramMildred Pierce, dönemin tipik kadın portresinin sıradan bir ürünü gibidir. Ancak kendisini aldatan kocası kısa bir süre sonra kendisini terk eder. Mildred, bir anda kendisini daha yalnız ve daha güçlü bir halde bulur. Artık çevresindeki herkese bağımsızlığını ve kusursuzluğunu ilan edecektir. Önünde ise kızının velayetini almak üzere bir dava vardır.
Mildred Pierce
1945 · 465 votes
Film6.8GerilimGizemLeona Stevenson is confined to bed and uses her telephone to keep in contact with the outside world. One day she overhears a murder plot on the telephone and is desperate to find out who is the intended victim.
Sorry, Wrong Number
1948 · 218 votes
Film6.7DramMüzikDiscovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on Broadway: Susan, the singer who must leave behind her ageing vaudevillian father; vulnerable Sheila, the working girl pursued both by a millionaire and by her loyal boyfriend from Flatbush; and the mysterious European beauty Sandra, whose concert violinist husband cannot endure the thought of their escaping from poverty by promenading her glamor in skimpy costumes.
Ziegfeld Girl
1941 · 41 votes
Film7.2KomediRomantikJerry ve Lucy Warriner çifti çılgın, serserice bir yüksek sosyete hayatı sürdürmektedirler. Çok mutlu olmalarına rağmen, birbirlerinin sadakatinden şüphe etmeye başlarlar. Sonunda boşanmaya karar verirler. Lucy köpeklerinin velayetini almaya hak kazanır ama Jerry’nin köpeği ziyaret etme hakkı vardır. Boşanmaları henüz sonuçlanmadan ikisi de başka insanlarla yeni ilişkilere başlarlar. Lucy Oklahomalı petrol zengini ama sıkıcı, annesiyle birlikte seyahat etmekte olan Dan Leeson ile tanışır. Jerry sosyeteye yeni girmiş, bir mirasın varisi olan Barbara Vance’a kur yapmaktadır. Jerry ve Lucy birbirlerinin planlarını bozmaya çalışmaktadır ve bu durum oldukça komik sonuçlar doğurur.
Film6.9DramSuçJoe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distributors, rivals and loan collectors, while trying to make a success of their transport company.
They Drive by Night
1940 · 139 votes
Film6.5DramKomediAn elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory.
If I Had a Million
1932 · 51 votes
Film7.1SuçDramFight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the 'kid' falls for his sister.
Kid Galahad
1937 · 61 votes
Film7.0KomediRomantikMükemmel bir ev hanımı olduğu hakkında yalan söyleyen bir yemek yazarı, patronu ve savaştan dönmüş bir kahraman, geleneksel aile ortamında bir Noel geçirmek için kendilerini evine davet ettirince, bu yalanının ortaya çıkmaması için çabalar.
Film6.2SuçDramA struggling band find themselves attached to a fugitive and drawn into a series of old feuds and love affairs, as they try to stay together and find musical success.
Blues in the Night
1941 · 32 votes
Film5.5AksiyonMaceraU.S. Air Force aviator Jim Shannon is tasked with escorting a Soviet pilot claiming -- at the height of the Cold War -- that she wants to defect. After falling in love with and marrying her, Shannon learns from his superiors that she's a spy on a mission to extract military secrets. To save his new wife from prison and deportation, Shannon devises a risky plan.
Jet Pilot
1957 · 50 votes
Film6.2KomediDramAfter 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 treacherous world of Wall Street's financial markets.
The Toast of New York
1937 · 13 votes
Film7.0DramRomantikA struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.
Imitation of Life
1934 · 88 votes
Film5.4MüzikKomediA 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 their philandering husbands by hiring the soldier and two of his buddies as "escorts" for the weekend. Complications ensue when the husbands show up unexpectedly.
Let's Face It
1943 · 5 votes
Film6.7DramMüzikRose Sargent, a Roaring '20s singer, becomes a Ziegfeld Follies star as her criminal husband gets deeper in trouble.
Rose of Washington Square
1939 · 6 votes
Film6.3RomantikDramA struggling writer divorces his wife to pursue his career without interference, but they meet in Europe years later after she has remarried.
Westward Passage
1932 · 6 votes
Film6.9RomantikDramThe heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York City. When Peggy, hoping for something better in life for both of them, breaks off her engagement to Danny, he sets out to be a championship boxer, while she becomes a dancer paired with a sleazy partner. Will tragedy reunite the former lovers?
City for Conquest
1940 · 37 votes
Film4.8KomediMüzikBuck 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 locks them out. In his search for funds, Buck meets Patricia Harper, the fourth-richest girl in the world, but he isn't aware of that and thinks she is penniless. Patricia joins his troupe as a lark, and her father, James Harper, also pretends he is broke. Through some chicanery, Buck gets jobs for the girls as models at the Palace of Feminine Arts at the Paris International Exposition. James Harper borrows the priceless Napoleaon necklace to have a copy made for his daughter, but Buck thinks he stole it.
Artists and Models Abroad
1938 · 6 votes
Film5.8DramSuçThe trials and tribulations of a group of newly sworn-in police officers.
I Take This Oath
1940 · 4 votes
Film6.0MüzikKomediIn 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 until someone starts the place swinging. Musical numbers include: "Blame It on the Rhumba," "Where Are You?" "Jamboree," "Top of the Town," "I Feel That Foolish Feeling Coming On," "There's No Two Ways About It," "Fireman Save My Child"
Top of the Town
1937 · 5 votes
Film6.6SuçRomantikMr. 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 Roberts and Joe Dennis, working as sales clerks. Joe is in love with Helen and asks her to marry him, but she is forbidden to marry as she is still on parole, but she says yes and they are married. In spite of their poverty-level life, their marriage is a happy one until Joe discovers she has lied about her past, in order to marry him. Disillusioned, he leaves, goes back to his old gang and plans to rob the department store.
You and Me
1938 · 46 votes
Film7.2MüzikDramAn irresponsible Broadway star gets mixed up with gambling and gangsters.
Go Into Your Dance
1935 · 5 votes
Film6.6RomantikKomediA sports store clerk poses as a famous jockey as an advertising stunt, but gets more than he bargained for.
Going Places
1938 · 7 votes
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Dizi6.8SuçDramRichard Diamond, Private Detective is an American detective drama which aired on radio from 1949 to 1953, and on television from 1957 to 1960.
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
1957 · 5 votes
Dizi5.3WesternThe Adventures of Jim Bowie is an American Western television series that aired on ABC from 1956 to 1958. Its setting was the 1830s-era Louisiana Territory. The series was an adaptation of the book Tempered Blade, by Monte Barrett. The series stars Scott Forbes as the real-life adventurer Jim Bowie. The series initially portrayed Jim Bowie as something of an outdoors-man, riding his horse through the wilderness near his home in Opelousas, where he would stumble across someone needing his assistance. He was aided by the Bowie Knife, his ever-present weapon. He designed it in the first episode, The Birth of the Blade.
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
1956 · 6 votes
Dizi7.2KomediBud and Lou are unemployed actors living in Mr. Fields’ boarding house. Lou’s girlfriend Hillary lives across the hall. Many situations arise leading to slapstick and puns.
The Abbott and Costello Show
1952 · 22 votes
Dizi6.2KomediPete and Gladys is an American situation comedy television series starring Harry Morgan and Cara Williams that aired on CBS on Mondays at 8:00 p.m. Eastern and Pacific time for two seasons, beginning on September 19, 1960. The last episode was broadcast on September 10, 1962.
Pete and Gladys
1960 · 4 votes