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37
Birthday:
1891-04-22
Place of birth:
Coon Rapids, Iowa, USA
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Belle Bennett

Overview

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.

Known for

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1931 The Big Shot Actor Mrs. Isabel Thompson N/A
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1930 Recaptured Love Actor Helen Parr 58
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1930 Courage Actor Mary Colbrook N/A
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1929 Their Own Desire Actor Harriet Marlett 58
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1929 My Lady's Past Actor Mamie Reynolds N/A
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1929 Molly and Me Actor N/A
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1929 The Iron Mask Actor The Queen Mother, Anne of Austria 59
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1928 The Power of Silence Actor Mamie Stone N/A
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1928 The Battle of the Sexes Actor Mrs. Judson 58
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1928 The Sporting Age Actor Miriam Driscoll N/A
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1928 The Devil's Skipper Actor The Devil Skipper N/A
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1927 Mother Machree Actor Mother Machree 59
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1927 Wild Geese Actor Amelia Gare N/A
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1927 The Way of All Flesh Actor Mrs. Schilling 59
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1927 Mother Actor Mrs. Ellis N/A
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1927 The Fourth Commandment Actor 58
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1926 The Lily Actor Odette N/A
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1926 The Reckless Lady Actor Mrs. Fleming N/A
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1925 East Lynne Actor Afy Hallijohn N/A
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1925 Stella Dallas Actor Stella Dallas 59
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1925 Playing with Souls Actor Amy Dale N/A
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1925 His Supreme Moment Actor Carla Light N/A
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1924 Hello, 'Frisco Actor Belle Bennett 59
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1924 In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter Actor Mrs. Perlmutter N/A
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1922 Flesh and Spirit Actor 59
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1922 Your Best Friend Actor N/A
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1918 The Reckoning Day Actor Jane Whiting N/A
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1917 Ashes of Hope Actor Gonda N/A
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1917 The Devil Dodger Actor Bowie N/A
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1917 Bond of Fear Actor Mary Jackson N/A
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1917 The Charmer Actor Charlotte Whitney N/A
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1917 Fires of Rebellion Actor Helen Mallory N/A
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1916 A Capable Lady Cook Actor The Wife N/A
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1916 Sweedie, the Janitor Actor Sweedie's Wife N/A
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1916 The Deserter Actor N/A
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1915 Mignon Actor N/A
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1914 The Unexpected Actor Dorothy Madison N/A
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