Belle Bennett
Belle Bennett
Biography
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
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
40
Gender
Female
Birthday
1891-04-22 (134 years old)
Place of Birth
Coon Rapids, Iowa, USA
Acting

1931

The Big Shot as Mrs. Isabel Thompson

1930

Courage as Mary Colbrook

1930

Recaptured Love as Helen Parr

1929

My Lady's Past as Mamie Reynolds

1929

Their Own Desire as Harriet Marlett

1929

The Iron Mask as The Queen Mother, Anne of Austria

1929

Molly and Me as Not available

1928

The Devil's Skipper as The Devil Skipper

1928

The Battle of the Sexes as Mrs. Judson

1928

The Power of Silence as Mamie Stone

1928

The Sporting Age as Miriam Driscoll

1927

Mother Machree as Mother Machree

1927

Mother as Mrs. Mary Ellis

1927

Wild Geese as Amelia Gare

1927

The Way of All Flesh as Mrs. Schilling

1927

The Fourth Commandment as Not available

1926

The Lily as Odette

1926

The Reckless Lady as Mrs. Fleming

1925

Stella Dallas as Stella Dallas

1925

His Supreme Moment as Carla Light

1925

Playing with Souls as Amy Dale

1925

East Lynne as Afy Hallijohn

1924

Hello, 'Frisco as Belle Bennett

1922

Your Best Friend as Not available

1922

Flesh and Spirit as Not available

1919

The Mayor of Filbert as Mollie Vaughn

1918

The Atom as Belle Hathaway

1918

The Reckoning Day as Jane Whiting

1917

Ashes of Hope as Gonda

1917

The Charmer as Charlotte Whitney

1917

Bond of Fear as Mary Jackson

1917

The Devil Dodger as Bowie

1917

Fires of Rebellion as Helen Mallory

1916

The Deserter as Not available

1916

A Lucky Leap as bess

1916

A Capable Lady Cook as The Wife

1916

Sweedie, the Janitor as Sweedie's Wife

1915

Mignon as Musette

1914

The Unexpected as Dorothy Madison