Belle Bennett
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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 |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.6244 |
| Birthday | 1891-04-22 |
| Place of Birth | Coon Rapids, Iowa, USA |
| Also Known As | Ara Belle Bennett, |
1925
East Lynne
7/1
This most famous of Victorian melodramas was more than half a century old, and had already been filmed several times when it came to the screen once a...
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East Lynne
1922
Your Best Friend
10/1
A Jewish mother in New York finds herself at odds with her son's new wife, a pretty Gentile girl.
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1925
Playing with Souls
9/1
Amy and Matthew Dale separate and they place their young son, Matthew Jr., in a London boarding school. The boy grows up without knowing his parents,...
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1916
Sweedie, the Janitor
7/1
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Sweedie, the Janitor
1916
A Capable Lady Cook
7/1
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1927
The Way of All Flesh
6.5/9
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The Way of All Flesh
1929
The Iron Mask
6.694/31
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The Iron Mask
1929
Their Own Desire
5.071/21
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Their Own Desire
1925
Stella Dallas
7.094/16
An eccentric lower class woman struggles to gain respect in high society after marrying a wealthy man, and the problem gets worse when their daughter...
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Stella Dallas
1928
The Battle of the Sexes
5.125/12
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The Battle of the Sexes
1927
Mother Machree
6.6/10
Ellen McHugh, a poor Irish immigrant to America, finds work in a carnival and is thus able to send her son Brian to a fine school. But when her positi...
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Mother Machree
1930
Recaptured Love
6/2
In this drama, a 50-year-old married man (played by John Halliday) goes with his wife (Belle Bennett) and son (Junior Durkin) to a nightclub in a fanc...
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Recaptured Love
1931
The Big Shot
10/1
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The Big Shot
1915
Mignon
0/0
The tragic, wandering journey of Mignon, the daughter of the nobleman Lothario and the Gypsy Musette, who is kidnapped by her mother's father, Giarno,...
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Mignon
1930
Courage
7/1
Belle Bennett plays as the widowed mother of seven children living in Sioux City, Iowa. She moves with them to Cambridge, Massachusetts in order to ed...
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Courage
1918
The Reckoning Day
10/1
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The Reckoning Day
1914
The Unexpected
0/0
Dorothy Madison, a secret service operative, is sent into the West Virginia mountains to locate a still, after male operatives failed. She carries a s...
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The Unexpected
1924
In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter
9/1
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1927
The Fourth Commandment
3.667/3
Following a reversal in the Graham family fortune, a childhood love affair between Gordon Graham and Marjorie Miller is frustrated by the socially amb...
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The Fourth Commandment
1928
The Power of Silence
10/1
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The Power of Silence
1917
Ashes of Hope
8/1
Set in the Great White North, the film stars Bennett as the object of affections for several rugged northerners, including a couple of disreputable ga...
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Ashes of Hope
1925
His Supreme Moment
10/1
John Douglas, a down-on-his-luck engineer, takes his sweetheart, Sara Deeping, to a play starring Carla King, and he falls in love with the actress.
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1924
Hello, 'Frisco
7.5/2
A comedy short directed by character Slim Summerville.
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1917
The Charmer
0/0
Genuinely sweet natured, Ambrosia Lee loves to help everyone, soothing their sorrows with her cheerful spirit. Her charms are put to the test, when sh...
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The Charmer
1917
Fires of Rebellion
0/0
Madge Garvey (Dorothy Phillips) works in a shoe factory. Her father Joe (Richard de la Reno) is a drunk who beats his wife (Alice May Youss), and her...
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Fires of Rebellion
1927
Mother
10/1
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Mother
1926
The Reckless Lady
10/1
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The Reckless Lady
1926
The Lily
7/1
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The Lily
1928
The Devil's Skipper
10/1
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The Devil's Skipper
1917
Bond of Fear
0/0
When stern Judge McClure gets into an argument with his younger brother John, a physical fight ensues in which the judge apparently kills John. In fea...
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Bond of Fear
1928
The Sporting Age
4/4
Blinded in a train accident James Driscoll (Holmes Herbert), whose wife, Miriam Driscoll (Belle Bennett), has been having an affair with his young mal...
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The Sporting Age
1922
Flesh and Spirit
6.5/2
Belle Bennett stars in this pioneering paranormal silent film.
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Flesh and Spirit
1929
My Lady's Past
7/1
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My Lady's Past
1929
Molly and Me
10/1
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Molly and Me
1927
Wild Geese
10/1
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Wild Geese
1916
The Deserter
0/0
Parker, an Army lieutenant at a Western outpost, falls in love with Barbara Taylor, daughter of his commanding officer. But when Barbara rejects him,...
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The Deserter
1917
The Devil Dodger
0/0
A gambler runs a frontier town with an iron fist.
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The Devil Dodger
1918
The Atom
0/0
Jennie is a slavey in a theatrical boarding house. To her the actors are all wonderful, but Montague Booth is the chief. In an accident Booth is disfi...
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The Atom
1919
The Mayor of Filbert
7/1
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The Mayor of Filbert
1916
A Lucky Leap
0/0
Fatty leaves his country home to go to the city. Bess, who lives in the city with her mother and her detective father, takes a novel and goes to the p...
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A Lucky Leap
1917
The Fuel of Life
0/0
After discovering her husband Roger has been unfaithful to her, Angela De Haven sets out to make all men pay for his deceit.
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1928
The Devil's Trademark
9/1
1928 American silent film.
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1929
The Woman Who Was Forgotten
10/1
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