Belle Bennett — The Fatal Wedding (1925) 🇺🇸

Perhaps it is a good thing that Belle Bennett is not superstitious.

For her recent marriage to Fred Windermere, an independent producer, promises the culmination of a little real-life drama which might be titled Pursued by the Fatal Wedding.

Belle was carried on the stage to make her theatrical debut as the baby of a rip-roarin’ mellerdrama called The Fatal Wedding, in her father’s traveling show. There were three female characters — the girl baby, the ingénue, and the mother. She played the baby until she outgrew the rôle; following seasons in her father’s other plays, she returned to the original company to portray the ingénue and, later, the mother. And now it is likely that her husband will film The Fatal Wedding.

Though little has been heard of her, probably because she has veered from stage to screen and back again for ten years or more, Belle Bennett is one of the most experienced troupers. From her infancy, with but few vacations, she has played in melos and burlesques, with circuses, in vaudeville and stock, coming to the studios every now and then to tarry briefly. Her most recent work was in the Ince [Ralph Ince | Thomas H. Ince] production, “Playing with Souls.”

Following their honeymoon, she will be starred in her husband’s films.

She is a very lovely blonde, with big, blue, dreamy eyes, a soft, lazy laugh — and a penchant for writing poetry.

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Photo by: Melbourne Spurr (1888–1964)

Collection: Picture Play Magazine, April 1925