1891-04-22 Coon Rapids, Iowa, USA
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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The Big Shot | Mrs. Isabel Thompson | 1931-12-31 |
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Recaptured Love | Helen Parr | 1930-07-07 |
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Courage | Mary Colbrook | 1930-05-22 |
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The Iron Mask | The Queen Mother, Anne of Austria | 1929-02-21 |
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My Lady's Past | Mamie Reynolds | 1929-04-01 |
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Molly and Me | 1929-03-01 | |
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Their Own Desire | Harriet Marlett | 1929-12-27 |
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The Devil's Skipper | The Devil Skipper | 1928-02-01 |
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The Sporting Age | Miriam Driscoll | 1928-03-02 |
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The Power of Silence | Mamie Stone | 1928-10-20 |
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The Battle of the Sexes | Mrs. Judson | 1928-10-12 |
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Mother Machree | Mother Machree | 1927-12-19 |
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Wild Geese | Amelia Gare | 1927-11-15 |
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The Fourth Commandment | 1927-03-20 | |
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Mother | Mrs. Mary Ellis | 1927-05-01 |
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The Way of All Flesh | Mrs. Schilling | 1927-10-01 |
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The Lily | Odette | 1926-10-03 |
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The Reckless Lady | Mrs. Fleming | 1926-01-24 |
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His Supreme Moment | Carla Light | 1925-04-12 |
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East Lynne | Afy Hallijohn | 1925-11-23 |
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Playing with Souls | Amy Dale | 1925-04-30 |
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Stella Dallas | Stella Dallas | 1925-11-16 |
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In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter | Mrs. Perlmutter | 1924-09-28 |
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Hello, 'Frisco | Belle Bennett | 1924-09-28 |
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Your Best Friend | 1922-03-26 | |
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Flesh and Spirit | 1922-06-01 | |
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The Mayor of Filbert | Mollie Vaughn | 1919-05-25 |
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The Atom | Belle Hathaway | 1918-09-15 |
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The Reckoning Day | Jane Whiting | 1918-10-20 |
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The Devil Dodger | Bowie | 1917-09-23 |
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Fires of Rebellion | Helen Mallory | 1917-07-02 |
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The Charmer | Charlotte Whitney | 1917-08-27 |
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Bond of Fear | Mary Jackson | 1917-09-23 |
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Ashes of Hope | Gonda | 1917-10-06 |
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A Lucky Leap | bess | 1916-07-13 |
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The Deserter | 1916-07-09 | |
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Sweedie, the Janitor | Sweedie's Wife | 1916-11-10 |
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A Capable Lady Cook | The Wife | 1916-11-17 |
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Mignon | Musette | 1915-01-18 |
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The Unexpected | Dorothy Madison | 1914-02-28 |
