Constance Campbell Bennett was an American stage, film, radio, and television actress and producer.
17 Facts About Constance Bennett
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Constance Bennett was a major Hollywood star during the 1920s and 1930s; during the early 1930s, she was the highest-paid actress in Hollywood.
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Constance Bennett was the daughter of stage and silent film star Richard Bennett, and the elder sister of actress Joan Bennett.
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Constance Bennett was born in New York City, the eldest of three daughters of actress Adrienne Morrison and actor Richard Constance Bennett.
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Constance Bennett abandoned a burgeoning career in silent films for marriage to Philip Plant in 1925 but resumed her film career after their divorce in 1929.
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Constance Bennett had a major supporting role in The Unsuspected, in which she played Jane Moynihan, the program director who helps prove that radio host Victor Grandison is guilty of murder.
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Constance Bennett played herself in a cameo in It Should Happen to You.
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Constance Bennett made her final screen appearance in the 1965 film Madame X, as the blackmailing mother-in-law.
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On June 15,1921, Constance Bennett eloped with Chester Hirst Moorehead of Chicago, a student at the University of Virginia who was the son of oral surgeon, Frederick Moorehead.
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Constance Bennett's parents planned a cruise to Europe, taking Constance with them, to separate the couple.
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In 1942 during a battle over a large trust fund established to benefit any descendants of her former husband, Constance Bennett announced that her adopted son actually was her natural child by Plant, born after the divorce and kept hidden to ensure that the child's biological father did not get custody.
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In 1931, Constance Bennett made headlines when she married one of Gloria Swanson's former husbands, Henri le Bailly, the Marquis de La Coudraye de La Falaise, a French nobleman and film director.
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Later that year, Constance Bennett married for the fifth and final time to US Air Force Colonel John Theron Coulter.
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Constance Bennett supported Barry Goldwater in the 1964 United States presidential election.
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On July 24,1965, shortly after filming of Madame X was completed, Constance Bennett collapsed and died from a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 60.
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Constance Bennett has a motion pictures star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to the film industry.
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Constance Bennett's star is located at 6250 Hollywood Boulevard, a short distance from the star of her sister, Joan.