Betty Compton

Actress + Singer + Musician

Female

Born May 13, 1904

Hometown Isle of Wight, En...

Died Jul 12, 1944

Death Place New York City, Ne...

For the American actress Betty Compson, see Betty Compson.

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Theodore Macfarlane Knappen

Married 1941 - 1944
Jimmy Walker
Married 1932 - 1941

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Trovato Il Primo Film Di Alfred Hitchcock, Ma è Incompleto Il Giornale Di Vicenza
Google News - Aug 04, 2011

Potrebbe essere un fantasma, ma ha un nome: Betty Compton. Un'attrice inglese morta a soli quarant'anni, nel 1944. Ieri, in Nuova Zelanda, si è scoperto che era la protagonista del primo film di Alfred Hitchcock. Gli archivisti del New Zealand Film
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First Hitchcock Film Discovered Daily Beast
Google News - Aug 03, 2011

It stars Betty Compton as a pair of twins, one good and one evil. The reels “offer a priceless opportunity to study [Hitchcock's] visual and narrative ideas when they were first taking shape,” said one Hitchcock scholar. The film will be preserved in
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Sophia Elizabeth Sadler Times Record News
Google News - May 19, 2011

The daughter of the late Betty Compton and Adolph Adair, Sophia was born on November 15, 1952, in Wichita Falls, Texas. She was also preceded in death by a daughter, Susan Elizabeth Sadler in 1997. Survivors include: husband, Bobby Sadler; sons,
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Atle Selberg, 90, Lauded Mathematician
NYTimes - Aug 17, 2007

Atle Selberg, a mathematician whose theoretical work on the properties of numbers was recognized with the Fields Medal and other major prizes, died Aug. 6 at his home in Princeton, N.J. He was 90. The cause was heart failure, his family said. As a young mathematician, Dr. Selberg was first widely recognized for a major contribution to the study of
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Timeline

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CHILDHOOD

1904 Birth Born on May 13, 1904.

TWENTIES

1926 22 Years Old A member of Ziegfeld Follies, she appeared in the original stage production of Funny Face (1927) alongside Fred Astaire and Adele Astaire, as well as Oh, Kay! in 1926.

FORTIES

1944 40 Years Old She died of breast cancer in Doctor's Hospital, Manhattan on July 12, 1944, aged 40.

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