Belle Bennett
Born 1891 (age 41) · Coon Rapids, Iowa, USA
Appears in 43 titles

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 Iron Mask
6.7
The Iron Mask
1929
as The Queen Mother, Anne of Austria
Their Own Desire
5.1
Their Own Desire
1929
as Harriet Marlett
Stella Dallas
7.1
Stella Dallas
1925
as Stella Dallas
The Battle of the Sexes
5.1
The Battle of the Sexes
1928
as Mrs. Judson
Mother Machree
6.6
Mother Machree
1927
as Mother Machree
The Way of All Flesh
6.5
The Way of All Flesh
1927
as Mrs. Schilling
The Sporting Age
4.0
The Sporting Age
1928
as Miriam Driscoll
The Fourth Commandment
3.7
The Fourth Commandment
1927
as Virginia
Recaptured Love
6.0
Recaptured Love
1930
as Helen Parr
7.5
Hello, 'Frisco
1924
as Belle Bennett
Flesh and Spirit
6.5
Flesh and Spirit
1922
East Lynne
7.0
East Lynne
1925
as Afy Hallijohn
Your Best Friend
10.0
Your Best Friend
1922
Playing with Souls
9.0
Playing with Souls
1925
as Amy Dale
7.0
A Capable Lady Cook
1916
as The Wife
7.0
Sweedie, the Janitor
1916
as Sweedie's Wife
The Big Shot
10.0
The Big Shot
1931
as Mrs. Isabel Thompson
Courage
7.0
Courage
1930
as Mary Colbrook
The Reckoning Day
10.0
The Reckoning Day
1918
as Jane Whiting
In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter
9.0
In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter
1924
as Mrs. Perlmutter