Belle Bennett

Known for ActingBorn 1891-04-22Died 1932-11-04Coon 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.Read more

Movies & web series

The Big Shot

Molly and Me

The Woman Who Was Forgotten

The Power of Silence

The Devil's Skipper

Mother

Wild Geese

The Reckless Lady

His Supreme Moment

Your Best Friend

The Reckoning Day

The Devil's Trademark

Playing with Souls

In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter

Ashes of Hope

Hello, 'Frisco

Stella Dallas

Courage

My Lady's Past

The Lily

East Lynne

The Mayor of Filbert

A Capable Lady Cook

Sweedie, the Janitor

The Iron Mask

Mother Machree

The Way of All Flesh

Flesh and Spirit

Recaptured Love

The Battle of the Sexes

Their Own Desire

The Sporting Age

The Fourth Commandment

The Atom

Fires of Rebellion

The Charmer

Bond of Fear

The Devil Dodger

The Fuel of Life

The Deserter

A Lucky Leap

Mignon

The Unexpected