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  FGA - Constance Bennett
Constance Bennett looked a lot like her father: square face with a strong jaw and good, high cheekbones, remarkably large blue eyes, and an air of importance.
Constance Bennett appeared in an impressive nine films in 1925 and signed an MGM contract late in the year before suddenly giving it all up for Philip Plant, whom she married that same year (son Peter was born in 1929).
Constance lived the life of a wealthy society wife until the marriage ended in 1929 and she returned to films (and blithely ignored an annoyed MGM, whom she'd walked out on four years earlier).
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 Constance Bennett @ Filmbug
Born in New York City, Bennett was the daughter of actor Richard Bennett and actress Adrienne Morrison, and the elder sister of actresses Barbara and Joan Bennett.
Bennett's film career continued to grow during the 1930s, and in 1937 she scored her biggest success, as a ghost in the comedy Topper with Cary Grant.
Constance Bennett has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contribution to Motion Pictures, at 6250 Hollywood Boulevard, a short distance from the star of her sister, Joan Bennett.
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 Joan Bennett and Constance Bennett   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The oldest sister Constance was born in 1904, middle sister Barbara, the least known of the three was born in 1906.
Bennett was famous for having battles with critics of the day and wrote scathing letters not only when they panned his performances but when they praised them as well.
Constance Bennett was as assertive with studio heads as she was with the press.
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 Constance Bennett - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Constance Campbell Bennett (October 22, 1904 - July 24, 1965) was a US actress known more for her elegant persona than her acting talents.
Born in New York City, she was the daughter of actor Richard Bennett and actress Adrienne Morrison whose father was the stage actor Morris W. Morris, and the eldest sister of actresses Barbara Bennett and Joan Bennett.
Bennett and de la Falaise founded Bennett Pictures Corp. and co-produced two films which were the last filmed in Hollywood in the two-strip Technicolor process, Legong: Dance of the Virgins (1935) filmed in Bali, and Kilou the Killer Tiger (1936), filmed in Indochina.
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 Joan Bennett - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Born in Palisades Park, New Jersey, Bennett was the youngest of 3 daughters of stage actors Richard Bennett and Adrienne Morrison, and was the younger sister of actresses Constance Bennett and Barbara Bennett (the mother of Morton Downey, Jr.
Bennett made her first film appearance in 1918 in an uncredited part and appeared in a few silent films while a child.
Bennett died from a heart attack in Scarsdale, New York at the age of 80, and was buried in Pleasant View Cemetery, Lyme, Connecticut.
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 Comedy Central: Movies - Constance Bennett - Biography
Constance Bennett was the eldest of three daughters born to theatrical luminary Richard Bennett and his wife, actress Adrienne Morrison.
Constance's fifth and longest-lasting husband, whom she married in 1946, was Brigadier General John Theron Couper (for the record, husband #4 was actor Gilbert Roland); at age 59, she died of a cerebral hemorrhage in the Walson Army Hospital at Fort Dix, New Jersey, where her husband was stationed.
Constance Bennett was the sister of actresses Barbara and Joan Bennett, and the aunt of radio talk-show host Morton Downey Jr.
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 Joan Bennett Biographical Essay
Bennett played a number of parts during the show's five-year run and in one of its spin-off films.
She was the third daughter born to stage actors Richard Bennett and Adrienne Morrison; her elder sisters being Constance and Barbara Bennett.
Bennett went on to play several roles on the show, but after the first year, her billing as "star" was more titular than anything else.
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 Table of contents for The Bennetts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Richard Bennett's own stage debut had come in 1891, and although he might have had every good reason to feel nostalgic for the great stars of the period, the plays themselves were often best forgotten.
Because so few of the great stars of the last years of the nineteenth and the first decade of the twentieth centuries have left any permanent record of their work, we are forced to rely chiefly on written accounts from the period to gain any sense at all of what they were like onstage.
If Richard Bennett regarded this embarrassment of riches as a time of artistic bankruptcy, he was slighting some of his own brilliant contributions to the theater something he surely never would have intended to do.
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 Biography for Constance Bennett (I)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Independent, outspoken Constance Bennett, the first of the Bennett sisters to enter films, appeared in New York-produced silents before a chance meeting with Samuel Goldwyn led to her Hollywood debut in Cytherea (1924).
Often described as the most beautiful of the Bennett sisters with her blonde hair and blue eyes, Constance Bennett was the daughter of actor Richard Bennett and actress Adrienne Morrison.
Her sisters were Joan Bennett and Barbara Bennett.
www.imdb.com /name/nm0000909/bio   (589 words)

  
 Constance Bennett: Hollywood Renegade   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Constance Bennett was another independent producer who made films at the General Service Studio, released through United Artists, and maintained a SIMPP membership.
Bennett was an industry veteran with experience as an actor that went back to the days of Lewis J. Selznick, the father of Myron and David O. Selznick.
A chance meeting between Sam Goldwyn and Constance lead to her emergence as a Hollywood performer in 1924.
www.cobbles.com /simpp_archive/constance_bennett.htm   (201 words)

  
 Joan Bennett - Films as Actress:
Born: Joan Geraldine Bennett in Palisades, New Jersey, 27 February 1910; daughter of the actor Richard Bennett; sister of the actress Constance Bennett.
Joan Bennett, the youngest of the three acting daughters of prominent stage and screen star Richard Bennett, was the last of the sisters to enter films seriously, but she had the longest and, in retrospect, the most meaningful career of any of her family.
Bennett's career flourished in the 1940s not only because of her change of hair color but also because of her marriage to the prominent producer Walter Wanger.
www.filmreference.com /Actors-and-Actresses-Ba-Bo/Bennett-Joan.html   (1257 words)

  
 Movie Info for What Price Hollywood? on MSN Movies
Constance Bennett plays a star-struck waitress who manages to make a good impression on prominent film director Lowell Sherman.
With Sherman's patronage, Bennett rises to film stardom as "America's Pal." Sherman is gratified, but he keeps his distance; a chronic alcoholic, he is certain that his inevitable fall from grace will adversely affect Bennett's stardom.
Impulsively, Bennett marries wealthy playboy Neil Hamilton, who genuinely loves his wife but is jealous of the demands made on her by her career.
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 Joan Bennett at Brian's Drive-In Theater
Born in New Jersey in 1910, glamorous actress Joan Bennett was the daughter of stage and screen actor Richard Bennett.
Bennett remained a brunette for the rest of her life and became one of the 1940s most popular film noir femme fatales.
Joan Bennett had no screen work for three years until she was approached by Roger Corman in 1954 to star as the villainous Mrs.
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 Joan Bennett Selective Bibliography Articles
Aronson, Steven M.L. "Joan Bennett: Star of the Woman in the Window and Father of the Bride in Holmby Hills." Architectural Digest April 1996: 172+.
Flint, Peter B. "Joan Bennett, Whose Roles Ripened from Sweet to Siren, Dies at 80." Obituary.
Obituary that focuses slightly more on the biographical details of Bennett, but includes some analysis of her career.
www.acsu.buffalo.edu /~mlzafron/bennettarticles.html   (499 words)

  
 CONSTANCE BENNETT JOHN BARRYMORE SR. JOAN BENNETT BILLIE DOVE MARY PICKFORD Autograph
JOAN BENNETT (1910-1990), the daughter of stage actor Richard Bennett and sister of screen actresses Constance and Barbara Bennett, starred in over 40 films, including Bulldog Drummond (1929), Little Women (1933), Father of the Bride (1950) and We're No Angels (1955).
Active on the stage in the 1960s, she also starred in the TV series Dark Shadows (1966-1971) and appeared in a number of made-for-television movies.
CONSTANCE BENNETT (1905-1965) appeared in silent movies of the 1920s, then returned to movies in the 1930s in "fallen woman" and light comedy roles.
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 Constance Bennett   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Constance Bennett is the award winning, best-selling author of twenty contemporary and historical romances.
A native of Missouri, she spent four years in Los Angeles performing live theatre and studying film and television acting before returning home to launch her writing career in 1985.
Two years later, Bennett received the first of her two prestigious Rita Award nominations from Romance Writers of America.
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 Constance Bennett   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Sleek, stylish blonde star with an intriguingly cool quality, one of Hollywood's highest-paid performers during the depths of the Depression in the early 1930s.
Bennett entered films at age 17 and became a leading lady of Hollywood silents, perhaps the best-known of which is the story of three young women and their romantic travails, "Sally, Irene and Mary" (1925).
Bennett's marriage to a well-heeled member of the international set resulted in a three-year absence from the screen, but she regained her star status with "This Thing Called Love" (1929) and went on to specialize in polished, witty comedies and romantic melodramas....
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 Amazon.com: Topper/Topper Returns: DVD: Constance Bennett,Cary Grant,Roland Young,Billie Burke,Alan Mowbray,Eugene ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
A classic screwball comedy with a supernatural twist, Topper stars the incomparable Cary Grant and sparkling Constance Bennett as George and Marion Kirby, a fun-loving couple who cap an evening of jazz and champagne by running their car into a tree.
In Topper, Cary Grant and Constance Bennett star as George and Marion Kerby, a fun-loving couple who find themselves in limbo as ghosts after an unfortunate auto accident.
Of all the films of Thorne Smith's novels, it is the closest to the original, although Constance Bennett's Marion is more toned down and respectable than Smith's.
www.amazon.com /Topper-Returns-Constance-Bennett/dp/B00008ZZ7B   (2100 words)

  
 Bought | Plot | MTV Movies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Constance Bennett, Hollywood's favorite "wronged" heroine, is the star of the misleadingly titled Bought.
Thing of it is, Bennett can't be bought by wealthy playboy Ray Milland.
One of the attractions of Bought was the rare on-screen teaming of leading-lady Constance Bennett and her father, legendary Broadway star Richard Bennett.
www.mtv.com /movies/movie/53174/plot.jhtml   (220 words)

  
 The Stars of Dark Shadows: Where Are They Now? Joan Bennett
In its early weeks, as Dark Shadows developed its unusual tone, the show was primarily known as "that soap opera starring Joan Bennett." The beautiful movie legend brought much-needed star power and publicity to the fledgling series.
Although at first she was shy, and at times felt overshadowed by her glamorous older sister, Constance Bennett, Joan did gravitate toward the stage, making her debut a age 4 in one of her father's plays.
In the early years of her movie career, Joan was a bleach-blonde, because publicists and producers wanted her to resemble her movie star sister, Constance.
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 Constance Bennett Current Month TV Schedule
Starring Fredric March, Constance Bennett, Frank Morgan, Fay Wray, Vince Barnett, Jessie Ralph.
Starring Lana Turner, John Forsythe, Keir Dullea, Ricardo Montalban, Burgess Meredith, Constance Bennett, John Van Dreelen, Virginia Grey, Warren Stevens, Carl Benton Reid.
Starring Constance Bennett, Roland Young, Billie Burke, Alan Mowbray, Verree Teasdale, Franklin Pangborn, Alex D'Arcy, Paul Hurst, Spencer Charters, Irving Pichel.
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 The Ed Sullivan Show: scheduled: Constance Bennett; Senor Wences; Cell Block 7; Patachou - TV.com
Bern Bennett (Announcer (1948-1949)), Ed Sullivan (Host), Ralph Paul (Announcer (1959-61, 1964-71)), Art Hannes (Announcer (1949-1964))
Constance Bennett (scheduled guest), Cell Block 7 (scheduled guests)
Tell the world what you think of scheduled: Constance Bennett; Senor Wences; Cell Block 7; Patachou, write a review for this episode.
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 CONSTANCE BENNETT
Independent, outspoken Constance, first Bennett sister to enter films, appeared in New York-produced silents before a chance meeting with Samuel Goldwyn led to her Hollywood debut in 'Cytherea (1924)'.
She abandoned a burgeoning career in silents for marriage to Philip Plant in 1925; divorced, she achieved stardom in talkies from 1929.
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 Constance Bennett Biography, Filmography, Trailers,
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Born October 22, 1905 - Constance Bennett was the eldest of three daughters born to theatrical luminary Richard Bennett and his wife, actress Adrienne Morrison.
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 Constance Bennett Trivia -- notstarring.com
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 Constance Bennett (I)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Often described as the most beautiful of the Bennett sisters with her...
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 Constance Bennett Forum @ Filmbug
I've been feverishly watching all of Constance's movies on TCM.
David Niven wrote years ago that Constance could walk into a room in the evening, play cards all night, and walk out the next day looking exactly the same.
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