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* The reason "things seemed to fizzle out" at Pathe - the arrival of Constance Bennett , whose influence was enough to get potential blonde rivals Lombard and Diane Ellis jettisoned from the studio - is never mentioned. (In the spring of 1934, Bennett was still a bigger star than Lombard, and Silver Screen probably didn't want to risk offending her.) (community.livej....le_and_co/)
Obituary : George R. Bennett , Jr. - June 8, 1932 Sept. 10, 2002 - Liberty Township/Chesterton - GeorgeR. Bennett , Jr., age 70, of Liberty Township, died on September 10,2002 at his home. He was born June 8, 1932, in Chicago , IL, the son ofthe late George R. and late Constance Roundtree Bennett . He grew up inDune Acres and was a long time resident of Chesterton. George served inthe U.S. Navy from 1952 to 1958. He was the Vice-President of RandolphBox Label in Chicago , and retired from Seaboard Carton in 1995.He was a private pilot and loved camping and the lake, and was a memberof the Experimental Aircraft Association. George was a member of St.Paul Lutheran Church, Michigan City, Indiana. In 1965, inChesterton, he married Betty Summers, who survives. Also survived bydaughters: Margaret Anderson of North Carolina, Mary Bennett and CathyBennett Colin (Jose); a brother , John Lynn Bennett of Chesterton; twosisters: Connie Bennett of Colorado and Debbie Weiggel of Connecticut;two grandchildren, Michael and Lauren Anderson, along with three niecesand four nephews (www.rootsweb.com....lIndex.htm)
Trivia: Constance Bennett and Myrna Loy , among others, turned the script down. Claudette Colbert only accepted because Capra promised he would double her salary and she would be done in four weeks. She disliked the film so much she didn't even attend the Oscars; when she won for Best Actress she was found about to leave on a trip and was rushed to the ceremony, where she made her acceptance speech in a traveling suit. more (us.imdb.com/title/tt0025316/)
The premise of rich man pretending to be poor man (and obviouslymistaken for a poor man) was not unique with the original My ManGodfrey. An earlier movie (1930) had a similar plot line and was alsoremade in 1938 as, Merrily We Live, starring Constance Bennett , BrianAherne, and Billie Burke. (Burke won an Oscar for her supporting roleas the extremely ditsy mother). (www.imdb.com/title/tt0050738/)
Lana Turner played Anderson who when we meet here has just marriedClayton Anderson from a very old line WASP family with a pedigree backto the pilgrims. John Forsythe is Clayton and in her last film,Constance Bennett is his mother Estelle. They have a son, butForsythe's political career takes him away for long stretches and shebegins an affair with playboy Ricardo Montalban . When Forsythe returns,Turner attempts to break it off with Montalban, but Montalban won'thear of it. During a struggle Montalban falls down a flight of stairsand is killed. (us.imdb.com/title/tt0060645/)
Granville Van Dusen doesn't look or sound patrician as the weaklinghusband who acquiesces in his wife's disappearing act, and her flingwith his friend is unmotivated. Dark, gaunt Eleanor Parker is Big Mommain her latter-day harpy mode, as seen most spectacularly in 'AnAmerican Dream'; but here her lines are lackluster, and she does notmatch the venomous hauteur of Constance Bennett putting down andexpelling Lana. The 1981 production is soapy when it should be madlymelodramatic: there is a touch of the Danielle Steels or Barbara TaylorBradfords in the script's polish job by Edward Anhalt, who also pops upas the trial judge. (us.imdb.com/title/tt0082695/)
Capra had originally wanted MGM stars Robert Montgomery and Myrna Loy to play the lead roles, but ended up, surprisingly, with top MGM star Gable 'on-loan' (as punishment for refusing a role opposite Joan Crawford ) from the studio. [Another Montgomery film, Fugitive Lovers (1934) with a semi-similar tale was released at the same time by MGM.] Others who turned down the female lead role, before Colbert accepted the four weeks of work for $50,000, included Miriam Hopkins , Margaret Sullavan , and Constance Bennett . (www.filmsite.org/itha.html)
Hereās Joan and Constance Bennett at one of those vaguely unsettling Hollywood parties where everyone dressed up like little kids. Charlie Chaplin no doubt knocked off early on City Lights so he could be there. By the looks of Joan and Connie, this would seem to be his kind of bash, but did anyone really need to be confronted with Irving Thalberg in a sailor suit with a whistle in his mouth? (yes, there's a still of that from the same party, but I'm holding it for another day ). Speaking of kids, check out the caption on this next one - "JOAN CRAWFORD ADDS HER NAME TO THE AUTOGRAPH BOOKS OF OUR GANG YOUNGSTERS ā¦ Darla and Alfalfa, appearing in their first feature-length production, "The Ice Follies Of 1939", in which Miss Crawford is starred." First off, I think this is totally bogus. Alfalfa probably wanted Crawfordās autograph about like he wanted castor oil, and where are any Our Gangers in Ice Follies Of 1939 ? Iāve never sat through this feature, and had no idea Darla and Alfalfa were among the cast (greenbriarpictureshows.blogspot.com....chive.html)
Neil Hamilton was born September 9, 1899, 107 years ago. One day, the principal at his high school told Neil to leave and never come back . That sort of thing went on a lot in those days, I suppose (too bad my own H.S. principal wasn't similarly disposed). He lived until 1985, and at least around the neighborhood, pretty accessible in retirement. Iām told that kids used to come to his door so they could meet Commissioner Gordon . Were it not for Batman , Hamiltonās would be an obscure name indeed, even though for a while, he was a major draw. D.W. Griffith directed him in a group of big-scale silents, and he was a dependable, but not overpowering, leading man for a number of distaff headliners, including Norma Shearer , Joan Crawford , Constance Bennett , and others. Neil had the look and carriage of the Arrow Collar model heād been before acting took precedence, but talkies revealed a clipped reserve that limited his progress. Suddenly, he was the other man, or a cad. Either way, he wasnāt getting the girl any more (greenbriarpictureshows.blogspot.com....chive.html)
Check out the dashing "Pancho" with Janet in the fetching backstage-at-Metro pose. Thatās the amazing Gilbert Roland, and heās taking the sun here during a break from The Bad and The Beautiful in 1952. Gil was truly the man. His career went back to the silents, and for a while, he was Clara Bow ās off-screen paramour, that is, when he wasnāt making time with Norma Talmadge. Married to Constance Bennett during the forties, Roland was an ageless wonder. To our everlasting awe, he was still doing action parts and bedding Italian starlets onscreen in a brace of spaghetti westerns in the late sixties! Gil had a long life, too. Made it to 88. Bravo, Gil. We wish we had half your stamina. (greenbriarpictureshows.blogspot.com....chive.html)
Our dear / father / CHARLES / JOHN / BENNETT / died / 11th Dec 1975 / aged 74 / Our dera / mother / HILDA / CONSTANCE / ROSE / BENNETT / died / 1st Nov 1981 / aged 74 (homepage.ntlworld.com....sLane.html)
Truck-driving Clark Gable was on the ascent when starting-on-a-decline Anita paired with him in support of stars Constance Bennett and Robert Montgomery in 1931ās The Easiest Way . From here, it was thankless background work for star comedians (including Marie Dressler , shown here with Anita in Reducing that any actress on the lot could have filled, but whoās complaining when itās Buster Keaton at the clowning helm (here in Sidewalks Of New York )? MGM had an odd tendency to pose Buster as though he were Ramon Novarro for some of those publicity stills with his leading ladies, but we like the effect all the same, for this was, after all, how a lot of women viewed Buster (still do - he has a considerable distaff following today). Despite Anitaās efforts at explanation, I still wonder what went wrong for her at Metro. Did she just step down when she married songwriter Nacio Herb Brown in 1934? Not likely, as she was out of MGM at least a year prior to that. Maybe it was a distinct Queens accent that hampered her range beyond urban settings, or maybe, like Dorothy Sebastian, Mary Nolan, Madge Evans, and so many others, she just got winnowed out (greenbriarpictureshows.blogspot.com....chive.html)
Merrily We Live is slight, but fun. It's a decided knockoff of 1936's My Man Godfrey , but it boasts a solid comic ensemble including Constance Bennett , Brian Aherne, Alan Mowbray, Patsy Kelly, Ann Dvorak , Bonita Granville and Clarence Kolb. It was directed by Norman Z. McLeod, who directed the early Marx Brothers classic Monkey Business . (eddieonfilm.blogspot.com....chive.html)
Right now, my favorites are a hilariously campy short film with glamorous actress Constance Bennett revealing her daily beauty riitual secrets. She apparently woke up in full makeup and perfectly coifed every day, applied various face creams and even took a bath, all without smudging her lipstick and eyeliner. It's a hoot. (classicfilm.about.com....screen.htm)
On 11 August 1709 in Bridgewater, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts, a John Hainesmarried the widow Shaw, HannahPratt ,according to the "American Genealogist" (38:1, October 1862, p70-74), daughterof JosephPratt and SarahJunkins ,(not daughter of Joseph Shaw as some suggest). If this John Haines wasthe same man as the John Hinds who married Constance Bennett , then nineyears elapsed between their marriage, the birth of their children, herassumed death, his subsequent move to Bridgewater, and his final marriageto Hannah (Pratt) Shaw. (homepages.rootsweb.com....hinds.html)
Constance Bennett and Myrna Loy , among others, turned the script down. Claudette Colbert only accepted because Capra promised he would double her salary and she would be done in four weeks. She disliked the film so much she didn't even attend the Oscars; when she won for Best Actress she was found about to leave on a trip and was rushed to the ceremony, where she made her acceptance speech in a traveling suit. (us.imdb.com....316/trivia)
Ron Holliman and Constance Chesnut - both of Coldwell Banker, Beverly Hills North - had the listing, and Bennett Carr of Prudential California, Beverly Hills, represented the buyer. (www.latimes.com....3486.story)
1. John Hine bapt 14 Feb 1682 married Constance Bennett , 25 Nov 1700 Marblehead;Abigail Rolls and Susanna Northy mentioned in the will of Capt. William Hindswere daughters of John and Constance Hinds. The American Genealogist Vol. 38, pg 70-73 says that John Hinds died about 1714-1715 and thathis widow, Constance Bennett , married John Pickworth on 31 May 1721. ConstancePickworth was granted administration of the estate of her former husband,John Haines, fisherman, 19 June 1723, Essex Probate 313:460. Daughters Abigailwas baptized 11 June 1710 and Susanna was baptized 8 Nov 1713 at the FirstCongregation Church of Marblehead. Essex Co. Deeds, 85:235 " 19 Apr 1740, Thomas Roles Jr. fisherman wife Abigail, JohnNorthy, glazier and wife Susanna, to William Hinde, shoreman, land givento them in the will of our father William Hinde, dec." SusannaHinds married John Northey, 2 Mar 1731/32. Abigail Hinds married Thomas Roles,19 Aug 1729. Susanna Northey's second husband was Roger Vickery. Manypeople (based on the book written by Albert H (members.aol.com..../hines.htm)
Joan Bennett 's glamorous style has peaked my interest lately. She was the younger sister of Constance Bennett , and also had her fair share of movie parts. Joan appeared in films throughout the 20's, 30's, 40's and 50's. I've only seen her 1940's film noir parts, but I would love to see more. She was one of the actresses who actually gained more stardom and better roles when she dyed her hair from blonde to brunette. Which is great I thought, because it usually seems to be the other way around. She has two completely opposite looks. Do you like Joan better as a blonde or brunette? (vintageclothing....gspot.com/)
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