Enid Bennett
Date of birth: 1893-07-14
Place of birth: York, Western Australia, Australia
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Enid Eulalie Bennett
Biography
From Wikipedia Born in York, Western Australia, Enid Bennett started her film acting career in 1916, first starring in Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford, with two other films that same year. She married American director Sidney Franklin early in her career, but they were divorced shortly thereafter. In 1917, she starred in five films, the most important of which was The Little Brother opposite William Garwood. That film brought her to the attention of studios and led to an increasing number of acting roles. From 1918 to 1921, she starred in twenty-three films, becoming well known and recognizable as an actress. In 1918 she married director Fred Niblo, who later directed the second film version of Ben Hur. In 1922, she starred in only three films, but one of those became her most famous role, the female lead of "Maid Marian" in Robin Hood with Douglas Fairbanks. From 1923 to 1928, she starred in only ten films, as her career had slowed to a crawl. She was a mother by that time, as she and Niblo eventually had three children together. In 1929, her brother Alexander Bennett married actress Frances Lee. The wedding was attended by some of Hollywood's biggest names, including Gloria Swanson and Greta Garbo. That year Bennett starred in only one film, Good Medicine, opposite Edward Everett Horton. Bennett's sisters Marjorie (1896-1982) and Catherine (1901–1978) were also Hollywood film actresses. She made a semi-successful transition to sound films, but saw fewer roles come her way. From 1931 to 1941 she had roles in only seven films, the last of which was uncredited. She retired after 1941, eventually residing with her family in Malibu, California, where she died in 1969 from a heart attack, aged 75.
Movie Credits
Strangers of the Night
1923-09-10
A rousing fusion of satire, mystery and action. Aristrocrat Ambrose Applejohn is aching for exciteme
A Desert Wooing
1918-06-23
When wealthy cattleman Bart Masters (Jack Holt) comes East, he falls in love with social butterfly A
The Marriage Ring
1918-08-26
Anne Mertons (Enid Bennett) is the unhappy wife of Hugo Mertons (Robert McKim), an unscrupulous brut
The Sea Hawk
1924-06-14
The adventures of Oliver Tressilian, who goes from English gentry to galley slave to captain of a Mo
Skippy
1931-04-25
Skippy, the mischievous son of a wealthy doctor, meets Sooky in poverty-ridden Shantytown, and toget
Happiness
1917-05-13
Doris Wingate is featured in a Sunday magazine supplement as the most snobbish girl in America. In r
Waterloo Bridge
1931-09-01
In World War I London, Myra is an American out-of-work chorus girl making ends meet by picking up me
The Courtship of Miles Standish
1923-12-30
A dramatization of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem 'The Courtship of Miles Standish,' this is the
The Vamp
1918-07-14
Nancy, a naive young girl who works backstage at a musical-comedy theatre, learns from the chorus gi
The Red Lily
1924-09-08
Jean and Marise, young lovers forced from their homes, flee to Paris. Irrevocably separated there, t
The Haunted Bedroom
1919-12-05
Betsy Thorne (Bennett) travels to investigate a missing man where she overhears a conversation betwe
Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford
Adaptation of the play by George M. Cohan.
Partners Three
1919-03-22
Agnes Cuyler, a cabaret singer in New York who loathes her work, is fired for slapping Grant Haywood
Strike Up the Band
1940-09-27
Jimmy and Mary get a group of kids together to play in a school orchestra. A huge contest between sc
Meet Dr. Christian
1939-11-17
The first of six films in the "Dr. Christian" series, starring Jean Hersholt as a small town doctor
Coals of Fire
1918-08-26
Pretty young Nell Bradley is the daughter of a saloonkeeper in a "dry" town, and is looked down upon
Scandalous Tongues
1922-10-22
Nell Bradley, the daughter of a wealthy bootlegger, who is encouraged to improve herself through edu
The Bootlegger's Daughter
1922-10-06
Silent directed by Victor Schertzinger
The Big Store
1941-06-20
A detective is hired to protect the life of a singer, who has recently inherited a department store,
Robin Hood
1922-10-18
Amid big-budget medieval pageantry, King Richard goes on the Crusades leaving his brother Prince Joh
Intermezzo: A Love Story
1939-10-06
A concert violinist becomes charmed with his daughter's talented piano teacher. When he invites her
Princess of the Dark
1917-02-18
James Herron, a consumptive, has built a shack in the hope that the mountain air may prolong his lif
The Little Brother
1917-03-11
Jerry Ross dresses as a boy and sells newspapers to make money on the street corner. As the result o
The Girl, Glory
1917-06-09
Glory Wharton is the granddaughter of civil war veteran Jed Wharton. Jed entertains everyone with hi
The Aryan
1916-04-09
Steve Denton, rich from years of prospecting, is fleeced by the citizens of Yellow Ridge. In his rag
The Woman in the Suitcase
1920-01-11
Mary Moreland discovers the photograph of a woman not her mother in her father's suitcase and sets o
The Flag: A Story Inspired by the Tradition of Betsy Ross
1927-10-01
George Washington, commander of revolutionary American forces, ends a squabble among the colonies as
The Wrong Mr. Wright
1927-02-27
Scott Sidney silent mistaken identity romantic comedy about a timid man, named Seymour White, who cr
A Trip Through the World's Greatest Motion Picture Studios
1920-08-15
A Trip Through the World's Greatest Motion Picture Studios (1920) presents a fascinating glimpse int
Sooky
1931-12-26
Skippy, son of Dr. Herbert and Mrs. Skinner, adamantly stands by his poor friend, Sooky Wayne, who l
The False Road
1920-04-18
Roger Moran, a member of a gang of thieves headed by Mike Wilson, is released from prison after havi
Happy Though Married
1919-02-23
When Do We Eat?
1918-10-13
Impersonating Little Eva in a third-rate travelling production of Uncle Tom's Cabin fails to earn No
Her Husband's Friend
1920-11-14
Princeton Hadley feels obligated to pay alimony to Judith, the widow of his deceased friend Billy We
Screen Snapshots (Series 1, No. 7)
1920-08-24
An episode of the Screen Snapshots newsreels, showing seven segments of filmmakers behind the scenes