Joyce Compton News & Notes

Autographed "Bathing Beauty" portrait of Joyce Compton from the early to mid '40s. Lookin' good, toots!

Flyer from Joyce's estate sale from circa early '90s. The sale happened just before she spent her final years at the Motion Picture & Television Hospital and Home in Woodland Hills, California.

Warner Bros. publicity portrait of Joyce as a prostitute (could she be anything else in that getup?) in 1941's Manpower .

RKO publicity photo of Joyce Compton and actor William Henry in Scattergood Meets Broadway (1941).

Publicity portrait of Joyce Compton in a whimsical feathered hat, circa 1939.

Lovely portrait of Joyce taken by Los Angeles-based Hunter Foster Studios in the mid-'20s — definitely from the period where she styled herself after silent movie queen Mae Murray . A grateful thank you to Tisha for this and the next few photographs.

BearManor Media and author Michael Ankerich proudly announce the autobiography of Joyce Compton, the first book exclusively devoted to our favorite blonde. The Real Joyce Compton: Behind the Dumb Blonde Movie Image will be published this Fall. Look out for it!