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Nov 14, 2012 · TCM’s other Constance Bennett movies this evening include four pre-Code melodramas, all but one RKO releases: Our Betters (1933), with Joel McCrea and also directed by Cukor; Archie Mayo’s Two Against the World (1932), a Warner Bros. release featuring Neil Hamilton; another Cukor-directed melo, Rockabye (1932), also featuring Joel McCrea and future Oscar winner Paul Lukas; and George Archainbaud’s After Tonight (1933), which has Constance Bennett as a Russian spy who falls in love the ...
Constance Bennett and Lana Turner in Madame X (1966) During the last years of her life Constance Bennett, found happiness and contentment in her marriage to Air Force General John Coulter. After an absence of 12 years, still beautiful Constance, who looked more than a decade younger than her age, returned to the screen in the film Madame X with Lana Turner.
Oct 11, 2020 · October 11, 2020. Constance Bennett, who rose to fame in movies of the 1920s and '30s, came from a celebrated theatrical family. Her father, Richard Bennett, was a star of the stage and silent films who became a character actor in sound movies. Her mother, Adrienne Morrison, was a stage actress of the early 1900s; and Constance's younger ...
Constance Bennett (1905-1965) Constance Bennett was a highly skilled American actress who had success on stage, screen, radio and television. Her movie successes occurred during the 1920s and 1930s and she was for a time during the early 1930s the highest paid actress in Hollywood. Her older sister, who later became better known, was the ...
What Price Hollywood? is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by George Cukor and starring Constance Bennett with Lowell Sherman. The screenplay by Gene Fowler, Rowland Brown, Jane Murfin and Ben Markson is based on a story by Adela Rogers St. Johns and Louis Stevens. The supporting cast features Neil Hamilton, Gregory Ratoff, Brooks ...
Added: Apr 25, 1998. Find a Grave Memorial ID: 1906. Source citation. Actress. Born Constance Campbell Bennett, she was the daughter of silent film idol Richard Bennett, and the sister of actress Joan Bennett. She was born in New York City. Her movie career was launched by Samuel Goldwyn in 1924 in the silent film Cytherea.
When Bennett’s sister, Joan, became an actress, producer Sam Goldwyn criticised her lack of the “Bennett fire” that had characterised Constance’s persona (Bennett and Kibbee, p. 202). Furthermore, as Bennett liked being in charge (McBride) and resented being bound to a studio contract, she alternatively went freelance or managed to procure beneficial contracts for herself when working for a studio.
