Belle Bennett

Belle Bennett ( born April 22, 1891 in Milaca, Minnesota, † November 4, 1932 in Los Angeles ) was an American stage and film actress of the silent film era.

Life

Belle Bennett's father was a circus owner and she has appeared as a child in the circus ring. Your education she received in a convent school in Minneapolis. She then returned to the circus of her father, she then trained for trapeze artist. Soon, however, she went to the theater and came to Broadway. From 1913 she also took roles in smaller films. Film producer Samuel Goldwyn chose 1925 for the title role in Stella Dallas from. During the shooting died her 16- year-old son William Howard Macy, she had always output as her brother because she did not want her actual age penetrated to the public. The transition to talkies succeeded in theater actress effortlessly, but this career was short-lived, because they became ill with cancer and at the age of 41 years died in November 1932.

Filmography