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54 Picture Show Annual PTE JOAN JOAN is the youngest of the three Bennett sisters (the third. Barbara, has made only two pictures, being better known as a stage dancer), and was born on February 27th, 1911. She is less sophisticated than Constance, less orilliant. but sweeter and more gentle. Both have silky golden hair, blue eyes and fair skin, and in their dissimilar natures, a generous streak of what has been called the Bennett temperament, which is actually an inclination to allow any wild impulse to overcome them, to act on it, and let the consequences go hang. This recklessness is in all the Bennetts, even though Joan's roles on the screen have not allowed it to be apparent. Yet it rose to the surface early in her life, for at sixteen she eloped from the famous French finishing school at Versailles where she was being taught the social niceties, and married a young American. Now, although she is only nineteen, she has a little daughter (the outcome of her brief, unhappy marriage), who was born when she was seventeen. Joan Bennett's talking picture debut was made as a full- fledged leading woman for Ronald Colman, and few have made such an auspicious one. She had been on the New York stage only a short time when she was chosen for the role of Phyllis in " Bulldog Drummond." On the stage also her first appearance had been made in a leading role—the feminine lead with her father, Richard Bennett, a well-known Broadway actor, in the dramatised version of Jim Tully's " Jarnegan." Her charm was caught by the camera, her voice recorded delightfully, and Joan found herself kept constantly busy after her first role, playing in " Three Live Ghosts," " The Mississippi Gambler." " Disraeli," and " Puttin' on the Ritz." THE RECKLESS BENNETTS CONSTANCE FOUR years ago Constance Bennett left a promising film career to get married. She had been on the screen only two years, but in that time her unusual, sophisti- cated beauty had taken her to the front row, and she had signed a long contract to star. A young millionaire altered her plans, and for two years Constance—Mrs. Phil Plant— lived on the Continent, in worldly luxury that was so suitable a setting for her. Then came an offer from UFA for a picture. She was seriously considering it when Henri de la Falaise de la Coudraye (Gloria Swanson's husband) persuaded her to sign a contract with Pathe\ She had become bored with her glittering life in Continental society, and returned to Hollywood to take up her career where she had left it. Her first talkie was " Rich People," and others include " This Thing Called Love," " Clothes." and " Son of the Gods."