Place of Birth:
Coon Rapids, Iowa, USA
Date of Birth:
4/22/1891
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.
East Lynne
Your Best Friend
Playing with Souls
Sweedie, the Janitor
A Capable Lady Cook
The Way of All Flesh
The Iron Mask
Their Own Desire
Stella Dallas
The Battle of the Sexes
Mother Machree
Recaptured Love
The Big Shot
Mignon
Courage
The Reckoning Day
The Unexpected
In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter
The Fourth Commandment
The Power of Silence
Ashes of Hope
His Supreme Moment
Hello, 'Frisco
The Charmer
Fires of Rebellion
Mother
The Reckless Lady
The Lily
The Devil's Skipper
Bond of Fear
The Sporting Age
Flesh and Spirit
My Lady's Past
Molly and Me
Wild Geese
The Deserter
The Devil Dodger
The Atom
The Mayor of Filbert
A Lucky Leap