Belle Bennett

Belle Bennett

infobox actress


birthdate=birth date|1891|4|22
birthplace=Milaca, Minnesota, U.S.
deathdate=death date and age|1932|11|4|1891|4|22
deathplace=Los Angeles, California
occupation=stage and screen actress
spouse=Jack Oaker, William Macy, Fred Windermere

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.

tage Actress

Bennett appeared in circus performances during her childhood. Her father was Billie Bennett, owner of a circus. He trained her to be a
trapeze performer after she spent some years in the Sacred Heart Convent in Minneapolis, Minnesota. By age thirteen she was appearing in public. Performances with stock companies led Bennett to Broadway (Manhattan). There she appeared in theatrical productions staged by David Belasco.

Motion Pictures

Bennett was cast in numerous minor Hollywood motion pictures like the western film "A Ticket to Red Horse Gulch" (1914).Then Samuel Goldwyn selected her from among seventy-threeactresses for the leading role in "Stella Dallas" (1925). The film has been ranked as one of the finest movies of all time. While filming themovie 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).

Marriages

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.

Illness and Death

During a break in her film career Bennett performed in vaudeville at a
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania theater. She collapsed on stage and was eventually checked into a Harrisburg, Pennsylvania hospital. There she underwent blood transfusions and was able to continue acting briefly. In September 1932 she was rushed by plane from New York following a relapse of an illness she had been suffering from for two and a half years. She died that November at the age of 41 from cancer, at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Los Angeles, California. 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.

References

* Los Angeles Times, "Found Unconscious", July 25, 1918, Page I10.
* Los Angeles Times, "Death Takes Star of Stella Dallas", November 5, 1932, Page A1.

External links

*imdb|0071602
*amg name|2:5374
* [http://silentladies.com/OSLBennettB.html Photos]

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NAME= Bennett, Belle
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=
SHORT DESCRIPTION=Film actress
DATE OF BIRTH=1891-4-22
PLACE OF BIRTH=Milaca, Minnesota
DATE OF DEATH=1932-11-4
PLACE OF DEATH=Los Angeles, California


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