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Belle Bennett

From Wikipedia Belle Bennett (April 22, 1891 – November 4, 1932) was a stage and screen actress who started her professional career in vaudeville. She was born in Milaca, Minnesota. Bennett was working as a film actress by 1913, and was cast in numerous one-reel shorts by small east coast film companies. She appeared in minor motion pictures like the western film A Ticket to Red Horse Gulch (Mutual 1914). She starred in several full-length films by the Triangle Film Corporation, including The Lonely Woman (1918). She also appeared on the east coast United States Moving Picture Corporation's film Flesh and Spirit (1922). She made the move to Hollywood before Samuel Goldwyn selected her from among seventy-three actresses for the leading role in Stella Dallas (1925). The film has been ranked as one of the finest movies of all time. While filming the movie her son, sixteen-year-old William Howard Macy, died. Macy had posed as Bennett's brother for some time because of her fear that her employers might find out her true age. She was actually thirty-four rather than twenty-four, which she had claimed to be. After playing the mother role in Stella Dallas Bennett was typecast for the remainder of her film career. She later appeared in Mother Machree (1928), The Battle of the Sexes (1928), The Iron Mask (1929), Courage (1930), Recaptured Love (1930) and The Big Shot (1931). Bennett was married three times. Jack Oaker, a sailor at the San Pedro, California submarine base, was married to her when she worked with the Triangle Film Corporation, in 1918. Her second husband was William Macy of La Crosse, Wisconsin. She later married film director Fred Windermere. In September 1932 she was rushed by plane from New York following a relapse of cancer which she had been suffering from for two and a half years. She died that November at the age of 41 at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Los Angeles, California. Late in her life Bennett came to believe in the power of prayer. A practitioner of Christian Science influenced her. She is interred in the Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery in North Hollywood. Bennett has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.


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Born:
Apr 22, 1891
Movie/TV Credits:
30
First Appeared:
In the movie The Unexpected 1914-02-28
Latest Project:
Movie The Big Shot 1931-12-31
Known For
Poster of Recaptured Love
Poster of The Power of Silence
Poster of His Supreme Moment
Poster of Ashes of Hope
Filmography
Movie The Big Shot Mrs. Isabel Thompson 1931-12-31
Movie Courage Mary Colbrook 1930-05-22
Movie Recaptured Love Helen Parr 1930-07-07
Movie The Iron Mask The Queen Mother, Anne of Austria 1929-02-21
Movie Molly and Me 1929-03-01
Movie Their Own Desire Harriet Marlett 1929-12-27
Movie My Lady's Past Mamie Reynolds 1929-04-01
Movie The Devil's Skipper The Devil Skipper 1928-02-01
Movie The Sporting Age Miriam Driscoll 1928-03-02
Movie The Battle of the Sexes Mrs. Judson 1928-10-12
Movie The Power of Silence Mamie Stone 1928-10-20
Movie The Way of All Flesh Mrs. Schilling 1927-10-01
Movie Mother Mrs. Ellis 1927-05-01
Movie Mother Machree Mother Machree 1927-12-19
Movie Wild Geese Amelia Gare 1927-11-15
Movie The Lily Odette 1926-10-03
Movie His Supreme Moment Carla Light 1925-04-12
Movie Playing with Souls Amy Dale 1925-04-30
Movie East Lynne Afy Hallijohn 1925-11-23
Movie Stella Dallas Stella Dallas 1925-11-16
Movie Hello, 'Frisco Belle Bennett 1924-09-28
Movie In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter Mrs. Perlmutter 1924-09-28
Movie Flesh and Spirit 1922-06-01
Movie The Charmer Charlotte Whitney 1917-08-27
Movie Fires of Rebellion Helen Mallory 1917-07-02
Movie The Devil Dodger Bowie 1917-09-23
Movie Bond of Fear Mary Jackson 1917-09-23
Movie Ashes of Hope Gonda 1917-10-06
Movie Mignon 1915-01-18
Movie The Unexpected Dorothy Madison 1914-02-28