Belle Bennett
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- April 22, 1891
- Died
- November 4, 1932
- Birthplace
- 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.
Filmography
The Big Shot 1931
as Mrs. Isabel Thompson
Recaptured Love 1930
as Helen Parr
Courage 1930
as Mary Colbrook
- The Woman Who Was Forgotten
The Woman Who Was Forgotten 1929
as Miss Miller
Their Own Desire 1929
as Harriet Marlett
My Lady's Past 1929
as Mamie Reynolds
Molly and Me 1929
Actor
The Iron Mask 1929
as The Queen Mother, Anne of Austria
The Power of Silence 1928
as Mamie Stone
The Battle of the Sexes 1928
as Mrs. Judson
The Devil's Trademark 1928
as Millie Benton
The Sporting Age 1928
as Miriam Driscoll
The Devil's Skipper 1928
as The Devil Skipper
Mother Machree 1927
as Mother Machree
Wild Geese 1927
as Amelia Gare
The Way of All Flesh 1927
as Mrs. Schilling
Mother 1927
as Mrs. Mary Ellis
The Fourth Commandment 1927
as Virginia
The Lily 1926
as Odette
The Reckless Lady 1926
as Mrs. Fleming
East Lynne 1925
as Afy Hallijohn
Stella Dallas 1925
as Stella Dallas
Playing with Souls 1925
as Amy Dale
His Supreme Moment 1925
as Carla Light
- Hello, 'Frisco
Hello, 'Frisco 1924
as Belle Bennett
In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter 1924
as Mrs. Perlmutter
Flesh and Spirit 1922
as Truth Eldridge
Your Best Friend 1922
Actor
The Mayor of Filbert 1919
as Mollie Vaughn
The Reckoning Day 1918
as Jane Whiting
The Atom 1918
as Belle Hathaway
- Because of a Woman
Because of a Woman 1917
as Valerie
The Fuel of Life 1917
as Angela De Haven
Ashes of Hope 1917
as Gonda
The Devil Dodger 1917
as Bowie
Bond of Fear 1917
as Mary Jackson
The Charmer 1917
as Charlotte Whitney
Fires of Rebellion 1917
as Helen Mallory
- A Capable Lady Cook
A Capable Lady Cook 1916
as The Wife
- Sweedie, the Janitor
Sweedie, the Janitor 1916
as Sweedie's Wife
A Lucky Leap 1916
as Bess
The Deserter 1916
Actor
- Mignon
Mignon 1915
as Musette
- The Unexpected
The Unexpected 1914
as Dorothy Madison
Credits from TMDB.