Happy Heavenly Birthday. Betty Compton ( born Violet Hallng Compton; May 13, 1904 — July. 12, 1944), was a famous English actress and singer, who married New York City mayor Jimmy Walker in 1933.
Compton was born Violet Balling Compton in Sandown, Isle of Wight. She moved to Canada with her parents when she was seven years old.
A member of the 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.
Compton married film dialog director Edward D. Dowling on February 16, 1931, in Cuernavaca, Mexico and they were divorced in that city on March 20, 1931. She had received a divorce from a previous marriage in 1923. She married Walker on April 18, 1933, in Cannes, France. On May 11, 1942, Compton married consulting engineer Theodore Knappen in Jersey City. That was her fourth wedding. She and Knappen had a son, Theodore Compton Knappen. She and Walker adopted a son, James J. Walker II and a daughter, Mary Ann Walker.
On July 12, 1944, Compton died of breast cancer in Doctor’s Hospital Manhattan, aged 40. ??????R.I.P.????
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Happy Heavenly Birthday. Betty Compton ( born Violet Hallng Compton; May 13, 1904 — July. 12, 1944), was a famous English actress and singer, who married New York City mayor Jimmy Walker in 1933.
Compton was born Violet Balling Compton in Sandown, Isle of Wight. She moved to Canada with her parents when she was seven years old.
A member of the 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.
Compton married film dialog director Edward D. Dowling on February 16, 1931, in Cuernavaca, Mexico and they were divorced in that city on March 20, 1931. She had received a divorce from a previous marriage in 1923. She married Walker on April 18, 1933, in Cannes, France. On May 11, 1942, Compton married consulting engineer Theodore Knappen in Jersey City. That was her fourth wedding. She and Knappen had a son, Theodore Compton Knappen. She and Walker adopted a son, James J. Walker II and a daughter, Mary Ann Walker.
On July 12, 1944, Compton died of breast cancer in Doctor’s Hospital Manhattan, aged 40. ??????R.I.P.????