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

Born: Coon Rapids, Iowa, USA, 1891-04-22

Died: 1932-11-04

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1914	The Unexpected	Dorothy Madison	0
2	1915	Mignon		0
3	1916	The Deserter		0
4	1916	A Lucky Leap	bess	0
5	1916	Sweedie, the Janitor	Sweedie's Wife	0
6	1916	A Capable Lady Cook	The Wife	0
7	1917	Fires of Rebellion	Helen Mallory	0
8	1917	The Charmer	Charlotte Whitney	0
9	1917	Bond of Fear	Mary Jackson	0
10	1917	The Devil Dodger	Bowie	0
11	1917	Ashes of Hope	Gonda	0
12	1918	The Atom	Belle Hathaway	0
13	1918	The Reckoning Day	Jane Whiting	0
14	1919	The Mayor of Filbert	Mollie Vaughn	0
15	1922	Your Best Friend		0
16	1922	Flesh and Spirit		60
17	1924	In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter	Mrs. Perlmutter	0
18	1924	Hello, 'Frisco	Belle Bennett	50
19	1925	His Supreme Moment	Carla Light	0
20	1925	Playing with Souls	Amy Dale	0
21	1925	Stella Dallas	Stella Dallas	71
22	1925	East Lynne	Afy Hallijohn	0
23	1926	The Reckless Lady	Mrs. Fleming	0
24	1926	The Lily	Odette	0
25	1927	The Fourth Commandment		10
26	1927	Mother	Mrs. Mary Ellis	0
27	1927	The Way of All Flesh	Mrs. Schilling	69
28	1927	Wild Geese	Amelia Gare	0
29	1927	Mother Machree	Mother Machree	62
30	1928	The Devil's Skipper	The Devil Skipper	0
31	1928	The Sporting Age	Miriam Driscoll	35
32	1928	The Battle of the Sexes	Mrs. Judson	52
33	1928	The Power of Silence	Mamie Stone	0
34	1929	The Iron Mask	The Queen Mother, Anne of Austria	67
35	1929	Molly and Me		0
36	1929	My Lady's Past	Mamie Reynolds	0
37	1929	Their Own Desire	Harriet Marlett	49
38	1930	Courage	Mary Colbrook	0
39	1930	Recaptured Love	Helen Parr	50
40	1931	The Big Shot	Mrs. Isabel Thompson	0

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