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.
The Iron Mask
as The Queen Mother, Anne of AustriaKing Louis XIII of France is thrilled to have born to him a son - an heir to the throne. But...
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The Battle of the Sexes
as Mrs. JudsonGum-chewing frizzy-haired golddigger Marie Skinner cooks up a scheme with her lover Babe Winsor,...
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Wild Geese
as Amelia GareSilent romantic melodrama about a wife and mother who is desperate to keep a secret from the...
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Their Own Desire
as Harriet MarlettLally is a rich girl whose father writes books and plays polo. After 23 years of marriage her...
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Mother Machree
as Mother MachreeEllen McHugh, a poor Irish immigrant to America, finds work in a carnival and is thus able to...
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The Way of All Flesh
as Mrs. SchillingThe story takes place in Milwaukee during the early 1900s with a bank clerk named August...
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Stella Dallas
as Stella DallasAn eccentric lower class woman struggles to gain respect in high society after marrying a...
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East Lynne
as Afy HallijohnThis most famous of Victorian melodramas was more than half a century old, and had already been...
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Recaptured Love
as Helen ParrIn this drama, a 50-year-old married man (played by John Halliday) goes with his wife (Belle...
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The Devil's Skipper
as The Devil SkipperThe Devil's Skipper was based on Demetrios Contos, a seafaring yarn by Jack London. Effectively...
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The Reckoning Day
as Jane WhitingDuring World War I, Jane Whiting, a bright young lawyer who is engaged to Senator Wheeler, is...
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His Supreme Moment
as Carla LightJohn Douglas, a down-on-his-luck engineer, takes his sweetheart, Sara Deeping, to a play...
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Fires of Rebellion
as Helen MalloryMadge Garvey (Dorothy Phillips) works in a shoe factory. Her father Joe (Richard de la Reno) is...
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The Charmer
as Charlotte WhitneyGenuinely sweet natured, Ambrosia Lee loves to help everyone, soothing their sorrows with her...
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Bond of Fear
as Mary JacksonWhen stern Judge McClure gets into an argument with his younger brother John, a physical fight...
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Flesh and Spirit
as uncreditedBelle Bennett stars in this pioneering paranormal silent film.
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Courage
as Mary ColbrookBelle Bennett plays as the widowed mother of seven children living in Sioux City, Iowa. She...
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The Big Shot
as Mrs. Isabel ThompsonA young man runs into trouble when he buys an auto court, only to find out that its located next...
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Playing with Souls
as Amy DaleAmy and Matthew Dale separate and they place their young son, Matthew Jr., in a London boarding...
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The Sporting Age
as Miriam DriscollBlinded in a train accident James Driscoll (Holmes Herbert), whose wife, Miriam Driscoll (Belle...
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My Lady's Past
as Mamie ReynoldsMamie Reynolds has been engaged to Sam Young for ten years. But when Sam's novel is published...
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The Power of Silence
as Mamie StoneWould An Innocent Woman Keep Silent? Would the fear of a murderer's death shake her from the...
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The Devil Dodger
as BowieA gambler runs a frontier town with an iron fist.
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In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter
as Mrs. PerlmutterA sequel of sorts, the Jewish ethnic comedy characters of Potash and Perlmutter return from...
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Ashes of Hope
as GondaSet in the Great White North, the film stars Bennett as the object of affections for several...
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The Deserter
as uncreditedParker, an Army lieutenant at a Western outpost, falls in love with Barbara Taylor, daughter of...
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The Fourth Commandment
as uncreditedFollowing a reversal in the Graham family fortune, a childhood love affair between Gordon Graham...
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Your Best Friend
as uncreditedA Jewish mother in New York finds herself at odds with her son's new wife, a pretty Gentile girl.
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