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Belle Bennett Died at age: 41

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Belle Bennett

Date of Birth:

Apr 22, 1891

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

Nov 04, 1932

Biography of

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.

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Belle Bennett

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Filmography of

Belle Bennett

Found 30 Movies in total

The Big Shot

Mrs. Isabel Thompson ( Actor )

... 1931

Recaptured Love

Helen Parr ( Actor )

... 1930

Courage

Mary Colbrook ( Actor )

... 1930

Their Own Desire

Harriet Marlett ( Actor )

... 1929

... 1929

The Iron Mask

The Queen Mother, Anne of Austria ( Actor )

... 1929

The Power of Silence

Mamie Stone ( Actor )

... 1928

The Battle of the Sexes

Mrs. Judson ( Actor )

... 1928

The Sporting Age

Miriam Driscoll ( Actor )

... 1928

The Devil's Skipper

The Devil Skipper ( Actor )

... 1928

Mother Machree

Mother Machree ( Actor )

... 1927

Wild Geese

Amelia Gare ( Actor )

... 1927

The Way of All Flesh

Mrs. Schilling ( Actor )

... 1927

Mother

Mrs. Ellis ( Actor )

... 1927

... 1927

The Lily

Odette ( Actor )

... 1926

The Reckless Lady

Mrs. Fleming ( Actor )

... 1926

East Lynne

Afy Hallijohn ( Actor )

... 1925

Stella Dallas

Stella Dallas ( Actor )

... 1925

Playing with Souls

Amy Dale ( Actor )

... 1925

His Supreme Moment

Carla Light ( Actor )

... 1925

... 1924

... 1922

... 1922

The Reckoning Day

Jane Whiting ( Actor )

... 1918

Ashes of Hope

Gonda ( Actor )

... 1917

Bond of Fear

Mary Jackson ( Actor )

... 1917

The Devil Dodger

Bowie ( Actor )

... 1917

The Charmer

Charlotte Whitney ( Actor )

... 1917

Fires of Rebellion

Helen Mallory ( Actor )

... 1917