Editing Betty Compson (section)

==Early life==
Compson was born on March 19, 1897,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wilson |first1=Scott |title=Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed. |date=2016 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=9781476625997 |page=150 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FOHgDAAAQBAJ&q=%22Eleanor%20Luicime%20Compson%22&pg=PA150 |access-date=January 10, 2018 |language=en}}</ref> the daughter of Virgil and Mary ({{nee}} Rauscher) Compson,<ref name="oi">{{cite web |last1=Stephenson |first1=William |title=Compson, Betty |url=http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1802341?rskey=V6Huzo&result=55 |website=Oxford Index |publisher=Oxford University Press |access-date=January 10, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180110025612/http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1802341?rskey=V6Huzo&result=55 |archive-date=January 10, 2018}}</ref> in [[Beaver, Utah]], at a mining camp. Her father was a mining engineer, a gold prospector, and a grocery store proprietor, and her mother was a maid in homes and in a hotel.<ref name="oi" />

Compson graduated from Salt Lake High School.<ref name="bd">{{cite book |last1=Katchmer |first1=George A. |title=A Biographical Dictionary of Silent Film Western Actors and Actresses |date=2009 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=9781476609058 |page=69 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VnGeCQAAQBAJ&q=%22Betty%20Compson%22%20actress&pg=PA69 |access-date=January 10, 2018 |language=en}}</ref> Her father died when she was young, and she obtained employment as a violinist at 16 at a theater in Salt Lake City.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/betty-compson/ |title=Betty Compson |website=[[Los Angeles Times]] |access-date=April 24, 2016}}</ref>