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Belle Bennett

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 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.

Personal information

Birthday

1891-04-22

Birth Place

Coon Rapids, Iowa, USA

Movies and TV shows :

A Capable Lady Cook

A Capable Lady Cook

1916

0.0

Movie
Ashes of Hope

Ashes of Hope

1917

0.0

Movie
Bond of Fear

Bond of Fear

1917

0.0

Movie
Courage

Courage

1930

0.0

Movie
East Lynne

East Lynne

1925

0.0

Movie
Fires of Rebellion

Fires of Rebellion

1917

0.0

Movie
Flesh and Spirit

Flesh and Spirit

1922

6.0

Movie
Hello, 'Frisco

Hello, 'Frisco

1924

5.0

Movie
His Supreme Moment

His Supreme Moment

1925

0.0

Movie
In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter

In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter

1924

0.0

Movie
Mignon

Mignon

1915

0.0

Movie
Molly and Me

Molly and Me

1929

0.0

Movie
Mother

Mother

1927

0.0

Movie
Mother Machree

Mother Machree

1927

6.2

Movie
My Lady's Past

My Lady's Past

1929

0.0

Movie
Playing with Souls

Playing with Souls

1925

0.0

Movie
Recaptured Love

Recaptured Love

1930

5.0

Movie
Stella Dallas

Stella Dallas

1925

7.1

Movie
Sweedie, the Janitor

Sweedie, the Janitor

1916

0.0

Movie
The Battle of the Sexes

The Battle of the Sexes

1928

5.3

Movie
The Big Shot

The Big Shot

1931

0.0

Movie
The Charmer

The Charmer

1917

0.0

Movie
The Deserter

The Deserter

1916

0.0

Movie
The Devil Dodger

The Devil Dodger

1917

0.0

Movie
The Devil's Skipper

The Devil's Skipper

1928

0.0

Movie
The Fourth Commandment

The Fourth Commandment

1927

1.0

Movie
The Iron Mask

The Iron Mask

1929

6.7

Movie
The Lily

The Lily

1926

0.0

Movie
The Power of Silence

The Power of Silence

1928

0.0

Movie
The Reckless Lady

The Reckless Lady

1926

0.0

Movie
The Reckoning Day

The Reckoning Day

1918

0.0

Movie
The Sporting Age

The Sporting Age

1928

3.5

Movie
The Unexpected

The Unexpected

1914

0.0

Movie
The Way of All Flesh

The Way of All Flesh

1927

6.9

Movie
Their Own Desire

Their Own Desire

1929

4.5

Movie
Wild Geese

Wild Geese

1927

0.0

Movie
Your Best Friend

Your Best Friend

1922

0.0

Movie