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Stella Dallas (Henry King, 1925)
Belle Bennett in Stella Dallas
Cast: Belle Bennett, Ronald Colman, Lois Moran, Alice Joyce, Jean Hersholt, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Screenplay: Frances Marion, based on a novel by Olive Higgins Prouty. Cinematography: Arthur Edeson. Film editing: Stuart Heisler.
Although eclipsed by the 1937 version directed by King Vidor and starring Barbara Stanwyck, the first filming of Olive Higgins Prouty's lachrymose novel Stella Dallas is well worth seeing, if only for Belle Bennett's blowsy, undaunted Stella. This is domestic melodrama of the purest sort, in which conventional psychology plays only the faintest role. It's hard, for example, to see why suave Ronald Colman's Stephen Dallas would fall so completely for Stella's unkempt charms that he's willing to marry her, unless it's penance for his father's criminality and loss of the family fortune. But this is not a story for skeptics or realists. It's a tale that requires you to believe that there's a maternal instinct that overcomes all, including the disapproval of polite society, and that it will be rewarded by seeing your daughter married to a product of that society, though you may have to do it through a window while standing in the rain outside the wedding. Bennett is grand in the role, even if her character doesn't have the complexities that Stanwyck brings to it.
Ronald Colman and Belle Bennett in STELLA DALLAS (1925) dir. Henry King
Belle Bennett ~born April 22, 1891 in Milaca, Minnesota
🎞 American stage and screen actress who started her career as a child circus performer in her fathers tent-and-wagon show. She later performed in theater and films, appearing in over 90 films during the silent era.
She starred in several full-length films by the Triangle Film Corporation, including The Lonely Woman (1918). She also appeared in United States Motion Picture Corporation's film Flesh and Spirit (1922). (d; 1932 in Los Angeles, California, aged 41)
Their Own Desire, 1929
Their Own Desire is a 1929 American pre-Code romantic drama film directed by E. Mason Hopper and starring Norma Shearer, Belle Bennett, Lewis Stone, Robert Montgomery, and Helene Millard. The film was adapted by James Forbes and Frances Marion from the novel by Sarita Fuller (pseudonym of Beulah Marie Dix); Lucille Newmark wrote the titles. It is also the last MGM film in the 1920s. Shearer was…
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The Iron Mask, 1929
The Iron Mask is a 1929 American part-talkie adventure film directed by Allan Dwan. In addition to some sequences with dialogue, the film featured a synchronized musical score with sound effects and a theme song. The film is an adaptation of the last section of the 1847-1850 novel The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas, père, which is itself based on the French legend of the Man in the Iron…
Belle Bennett and Ronald Colman in STELLA DALLAS (1925) dir. Henry King
STELLA DALLAS (1925) dir. Henry King