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Universal Weekly
Vol. 24, No. 12
She Can Play S
Belle Bennett, who was discovered in "Stella Dallas" to be one of the greatest actresses on the screen, although in her early thirties, plays sixteen or sixty with equal ease.
Gorgeous Belle Bennett of "Stella D resses on the Screen or Stage Who ; Young Girl or Elderly Woman — In at Her Greatest in a Role Whi
In "The Fotirth Commandment" she sacnfices love in a lowly home for luxui'y hut does not find happiness.
TO play sixteen and sixty and to be equally satisfying to an audience, to portray a young girl of 1905 and a haggard street beggar of 1926 and to ring not even one false note, that is a triumph of acting and make-up of which few actresses can boast. It was the triumph of Belle Bennett in "Stella Dallas" an«l it will be her's to an even greater degree in "The Fourth Commandment."
It is no matter of chance that Belle Bennett has given to the screen some of its most tragic moments. She, herself, has experienced the depth of sorrow and she has come through a finely tuned instrument on which life's greatest melodies may be played.
For yeai's she tried to gain recognition. From a traveling tent show in the Middle West, to parts in early picture productions, through grinding stock in cities from San Francisco to Atlanta, New York engagements, road engagements, everything that an actress can do, Belle Bennett has done and yet her tremendous talent was recognized by only a few. Then came the casting for "Stella Dallas." Actress after actress took the test for the coveted part. At length it was awarded to Miss Bennett. It was the greatest moment of her professional career — and it was followed a few days later by the greatest tragedy of her life, the death of her son Billy. But like the trouper she is. Belle Bennett went on. She played lier rolo and into it she put the heartache that was continually hers. She made "Stella Dallas" one of the most moving pictures of all time.
Belle Bennett made her stage debut when only few weeks old as a "prop" baby in "The Fatal Wedding." She was less than four years old when she played Little Eva in "Unci? Tom's Cabin." Her parents were the owners of a traveling tent show and from the time she could talk she took part in their performances.
At the age of thirteen she eloped with an actor in her father's company antl lost her first child when fifteen. Her son, Billy, who was to become the great interest in her life