Juliette Compton

Acting

Juliette Compton

Born — Died

1899-05-02 — 1989-03-19

Place of birth

Columbus, Georgia, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

35 titles

From Wikipedia Juliette Compton (May 3, 1899 – March 19, 1989) was an American actress whose career began in the silent film era and concluded with That Hamilton Woman in 1941. She had started her career with a season in the Ziegfeld Follies and then stage appearances in London where she also acted in British films. Compton married James Bartram in 1931. They separated in 1936 and finally divorced in 1942.

Known for

Film credits

1930s · 22 titles

Morocco poster
6.5

Mogador, Morocco. Late 1920s. A complex romance develops between a womanizing Legionnaire and a disillusioned Parisian cabaret singer.

Morocco

1930

Devil and the Deep poster
5.1

Naval commander Charles Sturm has made life miserable for his wife Diana due to his insane jealousy over every man she speaks to. His obsessive behavior soon drives her to the arms of a handsome lieutenant. When Charles learns of their affair, he plots revenge.

Devil and the Deep

1932

The Count of Monte Cristo poster
6.8

Young sailor Edmond Dantès is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes, finds treasure, and reinvents himself as the wealthy Count of Monte Cristo to exact revenge on those who betrayed him.

The Count of Monte Cristo

1934

Ladies of Leisure poster
6.2

Kay Arnold is a gold digger who wanders from party to party with the intention of catching a rich suitor. Jerry Strong is a young man from a wealthy family who strives to succeed as an artist. What begins as a relationship of mutual convenience soon turns into something else.

Ladies of Leisure

1930

Westward Passage poster
6.3

A 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

Rich Man's Folly poster
5.2

The dream of Paul Dombey, the wealthy owner of the shipping company, is to have a son to continue his business. Tragically, Dombey's wife dies shortly after giving birth to their son.

Rich Man's Folly

1931

Anybody's Woman poster
6.6

A lawyer, left by his wife, gets drunk and marries a chorus girl, or so he learns the morning after.

Anybody's Woman

1930

Behold My Wife! poster
8.0

After Michael Carter's fiancée commits suicide, Michael vows to seek revenge on his wealthy family, who sabotaged their marriage. He drives across the country angrily, and lands up at a saloon, where he is shot by an Indian, Pete. Pete's girlfriend, Tonita nurses Michael's wound and falls in love with him. Michael realizes this, proposes marriage to Tonita - a perfect revenge for his prejudice family. They marry and he takes her to New York, in full Indian dress hoping to embarrass the family.

Behold My Wife!

1934

Berkeley Square poster
5.9

A young American man is transported back to London in the time shortly after the American Revolution and meets his ancestors.

Berkeley Square

1933

Peg o' My Heart poster
5.0

Peg and her father live a simple life in an Irish fishing village. One day Sir Gerald arrives at the village to tell Pat that Peg is heir to estate of her grandfather, who hated Pat. The upshot of the will is that she must go to England for 3 years to learn to be a lady and that Pat can never see her again.

Peg o' My Heart

1933

The Match King poster
6.7

Unscrupulous Chicago janitor Paul Kroll uses deceit to fund a return trip to his homeland of Sweden. There, via ongoing continuing deceit and manipulation, he gradually attains a monopoly on the matchstick market in several countries and becomes an influential international figure. Based on the true story of Ivar Kreuger.

The Match King

1932

No One Man poster
6.5

When the boyfriend of a rich, bored socialite dies from a weak heart, she finds herself attracted to the doctor who treated him, a hard-working idealist decidedly different from the usual spoiled society rich kids she is used to.

No One Man

1932

Husband's Holiday poster
9.0

A stuffy family man cheats on his wife but she refuses him a divorce at first. Meanwhile his mistress resents her second class status.

Husband's Holiday

1931

The Vice Squad poster
6.8

A diplomat is blackmailed by crooked vice cops into helping them frame prostitutes.

The Vice Squad

1931

Grand Canary poster
4.8

Based on an AJ Cronin novel, a disgraced doctor exiled to the Canary Islands, meets and falls in love with a married woman.

Grand Canary

1934

The Man Called Back poster
6.0

Fresh from his success with the moody melodrama Murders in the Rue Morgue, director Robert Florey dashed off The Man Called Back at bargain-basement Tiffany Studios. The film is set in the tropics; Conrad Nagel tops the cast as a dissipated, derelict doctor, hopelessly in love with married socialite Doris Kenyon. Doris' insane husband John Halliday commits suicide, but arranges the evidence so that his wife will be charged with murder.

The Man Called Back

1932

No More Ladies poster
5.0

A society girl tries to reform her playboy husband by making him jealous.

No More Ladies

1935

Unfaithful poster
7.0

In this society drama set in contemporary England, a noblewoman pretends to be an adulteress in order to protect her sister-in-law, who actually is.

Unfaithful

1931

Strangers in Love poster
5.5

Fredric March essays a dual role in this story of a ne'er-do-well who impersonates his brother when the latter dies.

Strangers in Love

1932

Women Love Once poster
10.0

Happily married Julien Fields journeys to Europe to pursue his artistic interests.

Women Love Once

1931

Kick In poster
7.5

Chick Hewes is released from prison and finds work as an accountant. Two years later, Chick's crooked friend, Benny LaMarr, to whom he is indebted for past kindnesses, steals a diamond necklace from the home safe of the district attorney. When the district attorney threatens to accuse the police of inefficiency in crime fighting, Garvey, who is campaigning for the office of police commissioner, promises to catch the thief in twenty-four hours.

Kick In

1931

The Masquerader poster
5.0

A drug-addicted member of Parliament needs to take time off and secretly pull his life together, so he gets his lookalike cousin to agree to temporarily assume his identity.

The Masquerader

1933

1920s · 11 titles

No artwork available
10.0

A man loves a dancer who becomes a producer's mistress.

White Heat

1927

No artwork available
10.0

A newly divorced woman falls in love with an artist and a hypnotist at the same time.

The Wine of Life

1924

Human Desires poster
10.0

In Paris an actress divorces a jealous impresario and weds the officer who once saved from from suicide.

Human Desires

1924

The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel

1928

The Fake poster
9.0

'MP forces daughter to marry titled drug addict who dies when her lover tries to cure him.' (British Film Catalogue)

The Fake

1927

Woman to Woman poster
4.9

While on leave in WW I France an English officer and French cabaret star fall in love with one another and plan to marry. However, he is recalled to the front, wounded and has memory loss.

Woman to Woman

1929

Bulldog Drummond's Third Round poster
8.0

Merchants hire a foreign criminal to kidnap a scientist for the secret of manufacturing diamonds.

Bulldog Drummond's Third Round

1925

Nell Gwyn poster
6.9

An actress becomes the king's mistress and persuades him to convert the palace to a serviceman's home.

Nell Gwyn

1926

No artwork available
7.0

A young woman murders another woman whose behaviour drove her fiancé to suicide.

The Woman Tempted

1927

No artwork available
10.0

Middle-aged teacher Nadia experiences increasing social exclusion and paranoia as society begins to exclude her and her husband, Ange, in disturbing ways complicated by her difficult family history and her troubled relationship with her son, Ralph, and his family.

Change of Heart

1928

No artwork available
9.0

A Mandarin marries an English girl and tries to poison her lover.

The Chinese Bungalow

1926