Constance Bennett
Acting
Biography
Constance Campbell Bennett (October 22, 1904 – July 24, 1965) was an American actress. She was a major Hollywood star during the 1920s and 1930s and for a time during the early 1930s, she was the highest-paid actress in Hollywood. Bennett frequently played society women, focusing on melodramas in the early 1930s and then taking more comedic roles in the late 1930s and 1940s. She is best remembered for her leading roles in What Price Hollywood? (1932), Bed of Roses (1933), Topper (1937), Topper Takes a Trip (1938), and had a prominent supporting role in Greta Garbo's last film, Two-Faced Woman (1941). She was the daughter of stage and silent film star Richard Bennett, and the older sister of actress Joan Bennett. Description above from the Wikipedia article Constance Bennett, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born: October 22, 1904
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Known For
Going Hollywood: The '30s
Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually getting ready for another World War.
It Should Happen to You
Gladys Glover has just lost her modeling job when she meets filmmaker Pete Sheppard shooting a documentary in Central Park. For Pete it's love at first sight, but Gladys has her mind on other things, making a name for herself. Through a fluke of advertising she winds up with her name plastered over 10 billboards throughout city.
Moulin Rouge
A singer marries a famous composer, and after a while she gets the itch to go back on the stage. However, her husband won't let her. When she hears that a popular French singer named "Raquel" is coming to New York, she decides to go to Raquel with a plan--unbeknownst to her husband, "Raquel" is actually her sister, and her plan is for them to switch places so she can fulfill her dream of going back on the stage. However, things don't go quite as planned.
That's Entertainment, Part II
Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical numbers.
Merrily We Live
Society matron Emily Kilbourne has a habit of hiring ex-cons and hobos as servants. Her latest find is a handsome tramp who shows up at her doorstep and ends up in a chauffeur's uniform. He also catches the eye of Geraldine.
The Ed Sullivan Show
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
What Price Hollywood?
Sassy and ambitious waitress Mary Evans amuses and befriends amiable seldom-sober Hollywood film director Max Carey when he stumbles into her restaurant. Max invites Mary to his film premiere and, after a night of drinking and carousing, Mary is granted a screen test. A studio contract follows. Just as Mary finds her dreams coming true, Carey’s life and career begins its descent.
Topper
Madcap couple George and Marion Kerby are killed in an automobile accident. They return as ghosts to try and liven up the regimented lifestyle of their friend and bank president, Cosmo Topper. When Topper starts to live it up, it strains relations with his stuffy wife.
The Unsuspected
The secretary of an affably suave radio mystery host mysteriously commits suicide after his wealthy young niece disappears.
Becoming Cary Grant
For the first time one of Hollywood's greatest stars tells his own story, in his own words. From a childhood of poverty to global fame, Cary Grant, the ultimate self-made star, explores his own screen image and what it took to create it.
Filmography
as Self (archive footage)
as Valerie West (archive footage)
as (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
as (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Estelle Anderson
as Guest Panelist
as Lucille McKinley
as Wife
as Dr. Karen Lawrence
as Self
as Paula Rogers
as Jane Moynihan
as Zenia Lascalles
as Kitty de Mornay
as Joan Bannister
as Kye Allen
as Belle Andrews
as Griselda Vaughn
as Joan Madison aka Miss Moore and Laura
as Christine Blaine
as Gerry Lester
as Marion Kerby
as Helen Murphy
as Jerry Kilbourne
as Self (uncredited)
as Marion Kerby
as Yoli Haydn
as Anna von Stucknadel
as Self
as Sharon Norwood
as Iris
as Duchess of Florence
as Helen Hall / Raquel
as Carla Vanirska
as Lorry Evans
as Self
as Lady Pearl Grayston
as Judy Carroll
as Adele Hamilton
as Mary Evans
as Venice Muir
as Stephanie Dale
as Valerie West
as Doris Kendall
as Laura Murdock
as Sylvia Brenner Stanton
as Ellen Neal
as Frances Hawtree / Z-1
as Allana Wagner
as Ann Marvin
as Connie Hayden
as Marcia Livingston
as Sally Fitzgerald
as Abby Nettleton
as Hazel Woods
as Aileen Alton
as Betty Smith
as Georgie May
as Lois Ingals
as Madge Clayton, his sister
as Annette Sherman
as Elise Bascom
as Edith
as Chorus Girl
as Unborn soul