Career
Also not to be confused with American actress Joyce Compton. Betty Compton (May 13, 1904 – July 12, 1944) was an English actress who married New York City mayor Jimmy Walker in 1933. She was born as Violet Halling Compton in Sandown, Isle of Wight. in 1926.
She died of breast cancer in Doctors Hospital, Manhattan on July 12, 1944, aged 40.