Name
Belle Bennett
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1891-04-22
Deathday
1932-11-04 (41 years old)
Place of Birth
Coon Rapids, Iowa, USA
Biography
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 in the 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). 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 experienced 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. 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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- 1925 East Lynne as Afy Hallijohn
- 1922 Your Best Friend
- 1925 Playing with Souls as Amy Dale
- 1916 A Capable Lady Cook as The Wife
- 1916 Sweedie, the Janitor as Sweedie's Wife
- 1927 The Way of All Flesh as Mrs. Schilling
- 1929 The Iron Mask as The Queen Mother, Anne of Austria
- 1929 Their Own Desire as Harriet Marlett
- 1925 Stella Dallas as Stella Dallas
- 1928 The Battle of the Sexes as Mrs. Judson
- 1927 Mother Machree as Mother Machree
- 1930 Recaptured Love as Helen Parr
- 1931 The Big Shot as Mrs. Isabel Thompson
- 1915 Mignon as Musette
- 1930 Courage as Mary Colbrook
- 1918 The Reckoning Day as Jane Whiting
- 1914 The Unexpected as Dorothy Madison
- 1924 In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter as Mrs. Perlmutter
- 1927 The Fourth Commandment as Virginia
- 1928 The Power of Silence as Mamie Stone
- 1917 Ashes of Hope as Gonda
- 1925 His Supreme Moment as Carla Light
- 1924 Hello, 'Frisco as Belle Bennett
- 1917 The Charmer as Charlotte Whitney
- 1917 Fires of Rebellion as Helen Mallory
- 1927 Mother as Mrs. Mary Ellis
- 1926 The Reckless Lady as Mrs. Fleming
- 1926 The Lily as Odette
- 1928 The Devil's Skipper as The Devil Skipper
- 1917 Bond of Fear as Mary Jackson
- 1929 My Lady's Past as Mamie Reynolds
- 1929 Molly and Me
- 1922 Flesh and Spirit
- 1928 The Sporting Age as Miriam Driscoll
- 1927 Wild Geese as Amelia Gare
- 1916 The Deserter
- 1917 The Devil Dodger as Bowie
- 1918 The Atom as Belle Hathaway
- 1919 The Mayor of Filbert as Mollie Vaughn
- 1916 A Lucky Leap as bess
- 1917 The Fuel of Life as Angela De Haven
- 1928 The Devil's Trademark as Millie Benton
- 1929 The Woman Who Was Forgotten as Miss Miller
