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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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Filmography (Movies)
The Big Shot
Character:Mrs. Isabel Thompson
Release Date:31/12/1931
Recaptured Love
Character:Helen Parr
Release Date:07/07/1930
Courage
Character:Mary Colbrook
Release Date:22/05/1930
Their Own Desire
Character:Harriet Marlett
Release Date:27/12/1929
My Lady's Past
Character:Mamie Reynolds
Release Date:01/04/1929
Molly and Me
Character:
Release Date:01/03/1929
The Iron Mask
Character:The Queen Mother, Anne of Austria
Release Date:21/02/1929
The Power of Silence
Character:Mamie Stone
Release Date:20/10/1928
The Battle of the Sexes
Character:Mrs. Judson
Release Date:12/10/1928
The Sporting Age
Character:Miriam Driscoll
Release Date:02/03/1928
The Devil's Skipper
Character:The Devil Skipper
Release Date:01/02/1928
Mother Machree
Character:Mother Machree
Release Date:19/12/1927
Wild Geese
Character:Amelia Gare
Release Date:15/11/1927
The Way of All Flesh
Character:Mrs. Schilling
Release Date:01/10/1927
Mother
Character:Mrs. Mary Ellis
Release Date:01/05/1927
The Fourth Commandment
Character:
Release Date:20/03/1927
The Lily
Character:Odette
Release Date:03/10/1926
The Reckless Lady
Character:Mrs. Fleming
Release Date:24/01/1926
East Lynne
Character:Afy Hallijohn
Release Date:23/11/1925
Stella Dallas
Character:Stella Dallas
Release Date:16/11/1925
Playing with Souls
Character:Amy Dale
Release Date:30/04/1925
His Supreme Moment
Character:Carla Light
Release Date:12/04/1925
In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter
Character:Mrs. Perlmutter
Release Date:28/09/1924
Hello, 'Frisco
Character:Belle Bennett
Release Date:28/09/1924
Flesh and Spirit
Character:
Release Date:01/06/1922
Your Best Friend
Character:
Release Date:26/03/1922
The Mayor of Filbert
Character:Mollie Vaughn
Release Date:25/05/1919
The Reckoning Day
Character:Jane Whiting
Release Date:20/10/1918
The Atom
Character:Belle Hathaway
Release Date:15/09/1918
The Fuel of Life
Character:Angela De Haven
Release Date:18/11/1917
Ashes of Hope
Character:Gonda
Release Date:06/10/1917
Bond of Fear
Character:Mary Jackson
Release Date:23/09/1917
The Devil Dodger
Character:Bowie
Release Date:23/09/1917
The Charmer
Character:Charlotte Whitney
Release Date:27/08/1917
Fires of Rebellion
Character:Helen Mallory
Release Date:02/07/1917
A Capable Lady Cook
Character:The Wife
Release Date:17/11/1916
Sweedie, the Janitor
Character:Sweedie's Wife
Release Date:10/11/1916
A Lucky Leap
Character:bess
Release Date:13/07/1916
The Deserter
Character:
Release Date:09/07/1916
Mignon
Character:Musette
Release Date:18/01/1915
The Unexpected
Character:Dorothy Madison
Release Date:28/02/1914
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