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Enid Bennett is a Actor Australienne born on 14 july 1893 at York (Australie)

Enid Bennett

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Birth name Enid Bennett
Nationality Australie
Birth 14 july 1893 at York (Australie)
Death 14 may 1969 (at 75 years) at Malibu (USA)

Enid Bennett (15 July 1893 – 14 May 1969) was an Australian silent film actress.

Biography

Au cours des premières années 1910, Enid Bennett débute au théâtre dans son pays natal. En 1915, le réalisateur américain Fred Niblo vient tourner en Australie ses deux premiers films (sortis en 1916), dans lesquels joue la jeune actrice, qui fait ainsi ses débuts au cinéma — si l'on excepte une prestation non confirmée en 1913 —. Elle suit Niblo lorsqu'il regagne les États-Unis et s'y installe définitivement. À la fin de cette même année 1915, elle joue au théâtre à Broadway (la seule fois), dans Cock o' the Walk, pièce d'Henry Arthur Jones.

Après un bref mariage, soldé par un divorce, avec Sidney Franklin, également réalisateur américain, Enid Bennett se remarie en 1918 avec Fred Niblo, alors veuf. Elle apparaîtra dans dix-sept autres films muets réalisés par son second mari, entre 1918 et 1924. De plus, elle tourne aux côtés de Niblo (acteur) dans cinq films muets — voir filmographie ci-dessous —.

Au total, Enid Bennett participe à cinquante-deux films (américains, sauf les deux premiers, australiens), dont seulement huit parlants, le dernier en 1941, année où elle se retire. Elle avait d'ailleurs nettement ralenti ses activités d'actrice après 1923, pour se consacrer à sa famille (trois enfants sont nés de sa seconde union). Son rôle le mieux connu est sans doute celui de Lady Marian dans le Robin des Bois de 1922, avec Douglas Fairbanks interprétant le rôle-titre.

Notons encore que Marjorie Bennett (1896-1982) et Catherine Bennett (1901-1978), les deux sœurs cadettes d'Enid, étaient également actrices.

Best films

Strike Up the Band (1940)
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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Enid Bennett (37 films)

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Actress

The Big Store, 1h23
Directed by Charles Reisner, John Waters
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical
Actors Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Tony Martin, Virginia Grey, Margaret Dumont
Roles Clerk (uncredited)
Rating64% 3.248293.248293.248293.248293.24829
The Phelps Department Store owner Hiram Phelps has died, leaving half-ownership in the business to his nephew, singer Tommy Rogers. The other half is owned by Hiram's sister, Martha Phelps (Margaret Dumont), Tommy's aunt. Rogers has no interest in running a department store, so he plans to sell his interest and use the money to build a music conservatory. Store manager Grover (Douglas Dumbrille) wants to kill Rogers before he can sell his share, marry the wealthy Martha, then kill her to become sole owner of the Phelps Department Store. Martha is highly suspicious, worried about Tommy's safety lest anyone suspect her of foul play to take over the store. Against Grover's wishes she hires Wolf J. Flywheel (Groucho) as a floorwalker and bodyguard. Between Tommy wooing his sweetheart Joan (Virginia Grey) and Flywheel romancing Miss Phelps, the brothers eventually expose and thwart the plot to kill Tommy.
Strike Up the Band, 2h
Directed by Busby Berkeley
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Dance films, Films about education, Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Enid Bennett, June Preisser, William Tracy, Margaret Early
Roles Mrs. Morgan
Rating67% 3.394293.394293.394293.394293.39429
Jimmy Connors, a student at Riverwood High School, also plays the drums in the school band, but dreams of playing in a dance band. He and his "pal" Mary Holden sell the school principal the idea of forming the band and putting on a dance. The principal is initially doubtful, but then agrees to buy the first ticket. The event is a success and the school's debt for the instruments in paid off.
Intermezzo: A Love Story, 1h10
Directed by Gregory Ratoff
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about families, Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Leslie Howard, Ingrid Bergman, Edna Best, John Halliday, Cecil Kellaway, Ann Todd
Roles Greta Stenborg
Rating65% 3.298343.298343.298343.298343.29834
Holger Brandt, a famous virtuoso violinist, meets Anita Hoffman, his daughter's piano instructor, during a trip home. Impressed by Anita's talent, he invites her to accompany him on his next tour. They begin touring together and a passionate relationship ensues. Holger's wife Margit asks him for a divorce.
Waterloo Bridge, 1h21
Directed by James Whale
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Films based on plays
Actors Mae Clarke, Douglass Montgomery, Doris Lloyd, Bette Davis, Frederick Kerr, Enid Bennett
Roles Mary Cronin Wetherby
Rating73% 3.694393.694393.694393.694393.69439
Unable to find work in London at the height of World War I, American chorus girl Myra Deauville resorts to prostitution to support herself. She meets her clients on Waterloo Bridge, the primary entry point into the city for soldiers on leave. During an air raid, she meets fellow American Roy Cronin, a member of the Canadian Army, and he joins Myra in her apartment.
Sooky
Sooky (1931)
, 1h25
Directed by Norman Taurog
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Jackie Cooper, Robert Coogan, Willard Robertson, Enid Bennett, Helen Jerome Eddy, Guy Oliver
Roles Helen Skinner
Rating52% 2.61742.61742.61742.61742.6174
Suite de Skippy (1931)
Skippy
Skippy (1931)
, 1h25
Directed by Norman Taurog
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Jackie Cooper, Robert Coogan, Mitzi Green, Willard Robertson, Enid Bennett, Guy Oliver
Roles Ellen Skinner
Rating62% 3.1475553.1475553.1475553.1475553.147555
Skippy (Jackie Cooper) is the feisty son of the strictly Dr. Herbert Skinner (Willard Robertson) and his wife Ellen (Enid Bennett). Skinner forbids his son Skippy to play in the pauperized Shantytown, because of the unhygenical and criminal surroundings there. But Skippy and his friend Sidney (Jackie Searl) still go to Shantytown whrere sidney meets a new boy named Sooky (Robert Coogan, Jackie Coogan's little brother). He saves the small boy Sooky from the much bigger bully Harley Nubbins (Donald Haines). Skippy and Sooky become friends. One day Harley accidentally breaks the windshield of his father's car with Skippy's yo-yo. Harley, who has a very aggressive and brute father, blames it on Skippy and Sooky. Mr. Nubbins (Jack Rube Clifford), who works as a dog catcher, takes Sooky's dog and demands that they pay him for the damages if they want their dog back. The boys gather three dollars by breaking Skippy's savings bank, but Mr. Nubbins accepts it only for his windshield. He gives them three days for getting another three dollars for a dog license and he threatens that he'll kill their dog if they don't get the money.
The Sea Hawk, 2h3
Directed by Frank Lloyd
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Swashbuckler, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Pirate films
Actors Milton Sills, Enid Bennett, Wallace MacDonald, Lloyd Hughes, Marc McDermott, Wallace Beery
Roles Lady Rosamund Godolphin
Rating70% 3.534083.534083.534083.534083.53408
At the instigation of his half brother Lionel (Lloyd Hughes), Oliver Tressilian (Milton Sills), a wealthy baronet, is shanghaied and blamed for the death of Peter Godolphin (Wallace MacDonald), brother of Oliver's fiancée, whom Lionel actually has slain. At sea Oliver is captured by Spaniards and made a galley slave, but when he escapes to the Moors he becomes Sakr-el-Bahr, the scourge of Christendom. Learning of Rosamund's (Enid Bennett) impending marriage to his half brother, he kidnaps both of them, but to avoid the risk of giving her to Asad-ed-Din (Frank Currier), the Basha of Algiers, he surrenders to a British ship. Rosamund intercedes to save his life, and following the death of Lionel they are married.
The Red Lily, 1h21
Directed by Fred Niblo
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Ramón Novarro, Enid Bennett, Frank Currier, Mitchell Lewis, Rosita Marstini, Sidney Franklin
Roles Marise La Noue
Rating71% 3.578883.578883.578883.578883.57888
Jean Leonnec (Ramon Novarro) and Marise La Noue (Enid Bennett) are pennyless lovers who eloped to Paris. However, they are separated shortly after their arrival, leading to a downward spiral in each of their lives. She becomes a prostitute known as 'the red lily'; he learns the ways of the underworld from Bo-Bo (Wallace Beery).
The Bad Man, 1h10
Directed by Edwin Carewe
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Holbrook Blinn, Jack Mulhall, Walter McGrail, Enid Bennett, Harry Myers, Charles Sellon
Roles Mrs. Morgan Pell

The plotline has Lopez (Holbrook Blinn) and his band of outlaws living from the proceeds gained as a result of theft and confiscation of property, which means goods belonging to anyone wealthy enough to possess anything of value. One of those is rancher Gilbert Jones (Jack Mulhall), whose cattle losses are pushing him to the edge of bankruptcy.
Robin Hood
Robin Hood (1922)
, 2h7
Directed by Allan Dwan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Swashbuckler, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Political films, Films about royalty
Actors Douglas Fairbanks, Wallace Beery, Enid Bennett, Sam De Grasse, Alan Hale, William Lowery
Roles Lady Marian Fitzwalter
Rating70% 3.540513.540513.540513.540513.54051
The opening has the dashing Earl of Huntingdon besting his bitter enemy, Sir Guy of Gisbourne, in a joust. Huntingdon then joins King Richard the Lion-Hearted, who is going off to fight in the Crusades and has left his brother, Prince John, as regent. The prince soon emerges as a cruel, treacherous tyrant. Goaded on by Sir Guy, he usurps Richard's throne. When Huntingdon receives a message from his paramour, Lady Marian Fitzwalter, telling him of all that has transpired, he requests permission to return to England. King Richard assumes that the Earl has turned coward and denies him permission. The Earl seeks to leave in spite of this, but is ambushed by Sir Guy and imprisoned as a deserter. Upon escaping from his confines, he returns to England, endangering his life and honor, to oppose Prince John and restore King Richard's throne. He finds himself and his friends outlawed and Marian apparently dead.
The False Road
Directed by Fred Niblo
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Enid Bennett, Lloyd Hughes, Wade Boteler, Lucille Younge, Edith Yorke
Roles Betty Palmer
Rating57% 2.868742.868742.868742.868742.86874
As described in a film publication, Betty Palmer (Bennett) is in a New York criminal gang. Her sweetheart, Roger Moran (Hughes), completes a two year sentence at Sing Sing and surprises her when he announces at a banquet the gang gives in honor of his return that he is going straight. She refuses to leave her pals in the gang, so he leaves her and finally obtains work at a local bank in a small New England town. Later, the gang leader sends Betty and a confederate to rob the bank. Roger follows them back to New York and, by posing as a backslider, succeeds through Betty in recovering the stolen cash. Betty then abandons the life of crime and marries the man of her heart.