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JOAN BENNETT °* (Paramount Player)
Because of her brilliant family connections, reraantic histronic ancestors and family wealth, most people think that lovely Joan Bennett was mixed in the urns of the Gods arid born in a cradle of molded gold pieces. But Joan, in actual reality, has been the real hird-luck girl of Hollywood.
Joan was born in Palisades, New Jersey, on February 27th, 1910, the third of three daughters born to Richard Bennett and Adrienne Morrison, both stage celebrities and wealthy. The other two daughters were Constance and Barbara. At an early age Joan began evidencing talent for drama, long before Constance even revealed a liking for the stage. It was little Joan whfl wrote the plays, who enacted the leading parts and who conscripted and browbeat her sisters into helping her. Naturally, in Joan the Senior Bennetts the c~n
tinued fame of the clan. As a girl, Joan was tutored privately in New York. Her bad luck began when, at 8, her parents sent her, al^ng with Cor z -;,.-:? r and Barbara, to a boarding school. Joan was used to being tne Princess ar.d favored child and her precocious talent was not appreciated by her schoolmates. It made Joan feel inferior. She fought to regain her prestige out she became mure unpopular than ever. As a result introspective, retiring.
And so, at 15, when the Senior Bennett sent her to a finishing school at Versailles, France, Joan was hungry for attention. On the boat she met a young man and love resulted immediately and they were married in London when Joan was 16. Later, when the marriage became unsuccessful, Jo in divorced her husband in Los Angeles and attempted to crash the movies. She had a baby, Diana, but this didn't keep her from trying hard to make a niche for herself, even doin* extra work. She was too proud to ask her father for aid.
Her father finally found out what has happening, he bought a play for her in I*ew York and made her sell her furniture for the price of the ticket east. He believed that if she extricated herself from her own difficulty she would properly appreciate an opportunity. After the play, came real movie offers and she nas been a successful star ever since. Later she married Gene Mar.ey, renowned scenario writer and they h vi a child. Her more recent roles have been in: PRIVATE WORLDS , BIG BROWN EYES, THIRTEEN HOURS BY AIR, WEDDING