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Belle Bennett
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Belle Bennett
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1891-04-22,Coon Rapids, Iowa, USA
Gender
Female
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.

Filmography

7

East Lynne
1925-11-23

Your Best Friend

10

Your Best Friend
1922-03-26

Playing with Souls

9

Playing with Souls
1925-04-30

Sweedie, the Janitor

7

Sweedie, the Janitor
1916-11-10

A Capable Lady Cook

7

A Capable Lady Cook
1916-11-17

The Way of All Flesh

6.5

The Way of All Flesh
1927-10-01

6.703

The Iron Mask
1929-02-21

Their Own Desire

5.071

Their Own Desire
1929-12-27

7.094

Stella Dallas
1925-11-16

The Battle of the Sexes

5.125

The Battle of the Sexes
1928-10-12

6.6

Mother Machree
1927-12-19

Recaptured Love

6

Recaptured Love
1930-07-07

10

The Big Shot
1931-12-31

0

Mignon
1915-01-18

7

Courage
1930-05-22

The Reckoning Day

10

The Reckoning Day
1918-10-20

0

The Unexpected
1914-02-28

In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter

9

In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter
1924-09-28

The Fourth Commandment

3.667

The Fourth Commandment
1927-03-20

The Power of Silence

10

The Power of Silence
1928-10-20

8

Ashes of Hope
1917-10-06

His Supreme Moment

10

His Supreme Moment
1925-04-12

7.5

Hello, 'Frisco
1924-09-28

0

The Charmer
1917-08-27

Fires of Rebellion

0

Fires of Rebellion
1917-07-02

10

Mother
1927-05-01

The Reckless Lady

10

The Reckless Lady
1926-01-24

7

The Lily
1926-10-03

The Devil's Skipper

10

The Devil's Skipper
1928-02-01

0

Bond of Fear
1917-09-23

The Sporting Age

4

The Sporting Age
1928-03-02

Flesh and Spirit

6.5

Flesh and Spirit
1922-06-01

7

My Lady's Past
1929-04-01

10

Molly and Me
1929-03-01

10

Wild Geese
1927-11-15

0

The Deserter
1916-07-09

The Devil Dodger

0

The Devil Dodger
1917-09-23

0

The Atom
1918-09-15

The Mayor of Filbert

7

The Mayor of Filbert
1919-05-25

0

A Lucky Leap
1916-07-13

The Fuel of Life

0

The Fuel of Life
1917-11-18

The Devil's Trademark

9

The Devil's Trademark
1928-04-07

The Woman Who Was Forgotten

10

The Woman Who Was Forgotten
1929-12-31