A 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.

Sorry, Wrong Number

1948

English

7.3

♡ 11

86%

husband wife relationship

Anatole Litvak Director

Joyce Compton as Cotterell's Blonde Girlfriend

Amzie Strickland as Dance Team Member

Wendell Corey as Dr. Philip Alexander

Dorothy Neumann as Elizabeth Jennings

Leona 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.

Jet Pilot

1957

English

5.6

♡ 5

67%

Josef von Sternberg Director

Joyce Compton as Mrs. Simpson

Bill Erwin as Sergeant

Gene Roth as Sokolov's Batman

Carleton Young as Technical Sergeant in Palmer Field Control Tower

John Wayne stars as U.S. Air Force aviator Jim Shannon, who's tasked with escorting a Soviet pilot (Janet Leigh) claiming -- at the height of the Cold War -- that she wants to defect. After falling in love with and wedding the fetching flyer, 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 in this 1957 drama.

Magnificent Obsession

1935

English

6.8

♡ 7

67%

John M. Stahl Director

Betty Furness as Joyce Hudson

Edward Earle as Mr. Miller

Joyce Compton as Nurse

Robert Taylor as Robert Merrick

A playboy tries to redeem himself after his careless behavior causes a great man's death.

Mighty Joe Young

1949

English

7.0

♡ 9

91%

Ernest B. Schoedsack Director

Joyce Compton as Alice

Addison Richards as City Attorney

Terry Moore as Jill Young

Regis Toomey as John Young

A young woman, Jill Young, grew up on her father's ranch in Africa, raising a large gorilla named Joe from an infant. Years later, she brings him to Hollywood to become a star.

Love Before Breakfast

1936

English

6.2

♡ 4

52%

Walter Lang Director

Forrester Harvey as Chief Steward

Betty Lawford as Countess Campanella

Joyce Compton as Mary Lee

Edward Earle as Quartermaster

Scott is a very rich businessman who hangs out with a snooty, silly Countess, but has the hots for Kay who is already engaged to Bill. Scott pursues Kay like crazy, going so far as to buy Bill's oil company so that he can banish him to Japan, leaving Kay unmoored.

Christmas in Connecticut

1945

English

7.3

♡ 7

89%

Peter Godfrey Director

Dennis Morgan as Jefferson Jones

Joyce Compton as Mary Lee

Walter Baldwin as Sheriff Potter

Frank Jenks as Sinkewicz

While recovering in a hospital, war hero Jefferson Jones grows familiar with the "Diary of a Housewife" column written by Elizabeth Lane. Jeff's nurse arranges with Elizabeth's publisher, Alexander Yardley, for Jeff to spend the holiday at Elizabeth's bucolic Connecticut farm with her husband and child. But the column is a sham, so Elizabeth and her editor, Dudley Beecham, in fear of losing their jobs, hasten to set up the single, childless and entirely nondomestic Elizabeth on a country farm.

Ziegfeld Girl

1941

English

6.7

♡ 5

78%

Busby Berkeley Director

Joyce Compton as Miss Sawyer - Auditioning Showgirl

Armand Kaliz as Pierre - Headwaiter

Gayne Whitman as Ted - Box Office Attendant

Amzie Strickland as Ziegfeld Girl

Discovery 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.

Mildred Pierce

1945

English

7.9

♡ 25

88%

husband wife relationship

Michael Curtiz Director

Lee Patrick as Mrs. Maggie Biederhof

Ramsay Ames as Party Guest

Joyce Compton as Waitress

Jack Carson as Wally Fay

A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.

They Drive by Night

1940

English

7.2

♡ 7

93%

Raoul Walsh Director

Frank Faylen as Driver in Café

Ida Lupino as Lana Carlsen

Ned Glass as Prison Door Repairman

Joyce Compton as Sue Carter

Joe 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.

If I Had a Million

1932

English

6.9

♡ 10

100%

Ernst Lubitsch Director

Irving Bacon as China Shop Salesman

Joyce Compton as Marie - Waitress

Frank Hagney as Mike - Carnival Bouncer

Lester Dorr as Pedestrian at Accident

An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory.

Imitation of Life

1934

English

7.5

♡ 7

88%

John M. Stahl Director

Martin Turner as Man at Funeral

Alan Hale as Martin, the Furniture Man

Fredi Washington as Peola Johnson, Age 19

Joyce Compton as Young Woman at Party

A 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.

The Best Years of Our Lives

1946

English

8.1

♡ 30

98%

93%

Action

bodily disabled person

Drama

post traumatic stress disorder

post-traumatic stress disorder

post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd)

William Wyler Director

Joyce Compton as Hat Check Girl

Don Beddoe as Mr. Cameron

Walter Baldwin as Mr. Parrish

Ethelreda Leopold as Nightclub Patron

It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has arrived. But for each man, the dream is about to become a nightmare.

You and Me

1938

English

6.8

♡ 6

86%

Fritz Lang Director

Paul Newlan as Bouncer at Danceland

Joyce Compton as Curly Blonde

Sylvia Sidney as Helen Roberts

Barton MacLane as Mickey

Mr. 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.