Belle Bennett
Belle Bennett is known for The Iron Mask (1929), Their Own Desire (1929), Stella Dallas (1925).
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.
Questions about Belle Bennett
How many Belle Bennett films are in the catalogue?
The CineQuiz catalogue has 13 films with Belle Bennett, from 1917 to 1931.
What was the first Belle Bennett film?
The first Belle Bennett film in the catalogue is The Charmer, from 1917.
People data: TMDb.
Known for
Full filmography
44 films — 13 in the catalogue
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10.0 The Big Shot
1931 · Mrs. Isabel Thompson
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6.0 Recaptured Love
1930 · Helen Parr
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7.0 Courage
1930 · Mary Colbrook
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10.0
The Woman Who Was Forgotten
1929 · Miss Miller
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5.1 Their Own Desire
1929 · Harriet Marlett
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7.0 My Lady's Past
1929 · Mamie Reynolds
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10.0 Molly and Me
1929
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6.7 The Iron Mask
1929 · The Queen Mother, Anne of Austria
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10.0 The Power of Silence
1928 · Mamie Stone
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5.3 The Battle of the Sexes
1928 · Mrs. Judson
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9.0 The Devil's Trademark
1928 · Millie Benton
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4.0 The Sporting Age
1928 · Miriam Driscoll
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10.0 The Devil's Skipper
1928 · The Devil Skipper
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6.6 Mother Machree
1927 · Mother Machree
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10.0 Wild Geese
1927 · Amelia Gare
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6.5 The Way of All Flesh
1927 · Mrs. Schilling
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10.0 Mother
1927 · Mrs. Mary Ellis
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3.7 The Fourth Commandment
1927 · Virginia
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7.0 The Lily
1926 · Odette
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10.0 The Reckless Lady
1926 · Mrs. Fleming
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7.0 East Lynne
1925 · Afy Hallijohn
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7.1 Stella Dallas
1925 · Stella Dallas
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9.0 Playing with Souls
1925 · Amy Dale
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10.0 His Supreme Moment
1925 · Carla Light
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9.0 In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter
1924 · Mrs. Perlmutter
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7.5 Hello, 'Frisco
1924 · Belle Bennett
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6.5 Flesh and Spirit
1922 · Truth Eldridge
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10.0 Your Best Friend
1922
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7.0 The Mayor of Filbert
1919 · Mollie Vaughn
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10.0 The Reckoning Day
1918 · Jane Whiting
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The Atom
1918 · Belle Hathaway
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Because of a Woman
1917 · Valerie
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The Fuel of Life
1917 · Angela De Haven
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8.0 Ashes of Hope
1917 · Gonda
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Bond of Fear
1917 · Mary Jackson
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The Devil Dodger
1917 · Bowie
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The Charmer
1917 · Charlotte Whitney
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Fires of Rebellion
1917 · Helen Mallory
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7.0
A Capable Lady Cook
1916 · The Wife
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7.0
Sweedie, the Janitor
1916 · Sweedie's Wife
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A Lucky Leap
1916 · Bess
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The Deserter
1916
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Mignon
1915 · Musette
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The Unexpected
1914 · Dorothy Madison
People data: TMDb.
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