Belle Bennett

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.
Known For: Acting
Birthday: 1891-04-22
Place of Birth: Coon Rapids, Iowa, USA
Also Known As: Ara Belle Bennett

Movies List of Belle Bennett

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East Lynne

1925 Movie
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Your Best Friend

1922 Movie
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Playing with Souls

1925 Movie
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A Capable Lady Cook

1916 Movie
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Sweedie, the Janitor

1916 Movie
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The Way of All Flesh

1927 Movie
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The Iron Mask

1929 Movie
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Their Own Desire

1929 Movie
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Stella Dallas

1925 Movie
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Mother Machree

1927 Movie
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Recaptured Love

1930 Movie
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The Big Shot

1931 Movie
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Mignon

1915 Movie
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Courage

1930 Movie
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The Reckoning Day

1918 Movie
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The Unexpected

1914 Movie
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The Power of Silence

1928 Movie
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Ashes of Hope

1917 Movie
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His Supreme Moment

1925 Movie
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Hello, 'Frisco

1924 Movie
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The Charmer

1917 Movie
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Fires of Rebellion

1917 Movie
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Mother

1927 Movie
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The Reckless Lady

1926 Movie
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The Lily

1926 Movie
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The Devil's Skipper

1928 Movie
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Bond of Fear

1917 Movie
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My Lady's Past

1929 Movie
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Molly and Me

1929 Movie
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Flesh and Spirit

1922 Movie
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The Sporting Age

1928 Movie
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Wild Geese

1927 Movie
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The Deserter

1916 Movie
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The Devil Dodger

1917 Movie