Belle Bennett
actress
- Birth name:
- Ara Belle Bennett
- Born:
- 1891-04-22, Milaca, Minnesota, USA
- Died:
- 1932-11-04, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Professions:
- actress
Biography
Belle Bennett learned to steal a spotlight before she could spell her own surname. Her parents, William and Mary Bendon—who traded their quiet surname for the marquee snap of “Bennett”—piled their three children, scenery, and a flea-bitten dog into wagons that smelled of greasepaint and kerosene. “Billy Bennett’s Big Shows” pitched canvas in county-seat clearings and borrowed opera houses, swapping jokes, songs, and dime-novel melodramas for coins that clinked into a tin cashbox. By fourteen, Belle was the act nobody followed; by twenty-two, she had traded the tent’s flap for the proscenium arch and, soon after, the flicker of silver nitrate. The Mille Lacs County Times never mentioned a big top—only the restless shimmer of those road shows that carried Belle from prairie twilight to Hollywood daylight.
Filmography
In the vault (3)
In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter
Flesh and Spirit
Your Best Friend
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