- Nacimiento
- Defunción18 de abril de 1974 · Glendale, California, Estados Unidos (un ataque al corazón)
- Nombre de nacimientoEleanor Luicime Compson
- Alias
- The Prettiest Girl in Pictures
- The Hetty Green of Hollywood
- Altura1.59 m
- Betty Compson nació el 19 de marzo de 1897 en Utah, EE.UU.. Fue una actriz, conocida por Casados y descasados (1941), Street Girl (1929) y The Lady Refuses (1931). Estuvo casada con Silvius John Gall, Irving Weinberg y James Cruze. Murió el 18 de abril de 1974 en Glendale, California, Estados Unidos.
- CónyugesSilvius John Gall(8 de agosto de 1944 - 16 de abril de 1962) (su muerte)Irving Weinberg(14 de diciembre de 1933 - marzo de 1937) (divorciado)James Cruze(14 de octubre de 1924 - 20 de mayo de 1930) (divorciado)
- FamiliaresThelma Worth(Cousin)
- A few months after she was born her father seemingly deserted the family for the Klondike gold strike. As it turned out, he made $25,000--a small fortune in today's terms--and returned to the family.
- After she retired from the film industry she and her husband ran a business called Ashtrays Unlimited until her death.
- Compson had a reputation for frugality and being a very mercenary negotiator with the studios.
- Compson was sent a 1912 Rolls-Royce by a South American who had it stored in a New York garage. As she already had a limo, she was initially annoyed but later discovered she could rent it to the movie studios at $100 per day. She ultimately made $20,000 on it before selling it. This situation may have been the inspiration for a similar situation in El ocaso de una vida (1950).
- She claimed that director George Loane Tucker taught her almost everything she knew, "the best of literature, music, all the arts, everything".
- [About George Loane Tucker] I fell in love with Tucker, but it did me no good - he was married.
- They say I love money. I do, though it was pretty cold comfort, a pretty poor substitute, for all I'd lost. But, believe me, I wasn't going to pass up that much money for any false pride. Or any hurt I got down there on Poverty Row. I think if I hadn't felt that way, hadn't worked, I would have been done forever. I'd have gone straight to hell, to be frank about it.
- The Prude's Fall (1925) - 1000 pounds per week
- Miami (1924) - $3,500 per week
- Woman to Woman (1924) - $3,500 /week
- Woman to Woman (1924) - 1000 pounds per week
- The Miracle Man (1919) - $125 a week.
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