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9 unusual facts about Constance Bennett


After Office Hours

After Office Hours is a 1935 film starring Clark Gable and Constance Bennett and directed by Robert Z. Leonard.

Constance Bennett

Bennett and de la Falaise founded Bennett Pictures Corp. and co-produced two films which were the last filmed in Hollywood in the two-strip Technicolor process, Legong: Dance of the Virgins (1935) filmed in Bali, and Kilou the Killer Tiger (1936), filmed in Indochina.

Georges de la Falaise

James Henry Le Bailly de La Falaise, Ecuyer 1898—1972), who married American movie stars Gloria Swanson and Constance Bennett

Joe Leahy

Other radio and television shows for which he did uncredited background music included those for Orson Welles, Rita Hayworth Eddie Cantor, Tony Martin, Ethel Waters, Constance Bennett and many others.

Morton Downey

Morton Downey was the father of the right-wing television personality Morton Downey, Jr., by his first wife, actress Barbara Bennett (1906–1958), the sister of actresses Constance and Joan Bennett, and with whom he ultimately had five children, four sons and a daughter: Michael, "Sean" (John Morton Downey, Jr), Lorelle, Anthony and Kevin.

Ruth Comfort Mitchell Young

Others who were known to visit the house included actresses Joan and Constance Bennett, Senator James D. Phelan, and Governor William D. Stephens.

Sin Takes a Holiday

Constance Bennett also starred in one of the most popular films of 1930, Common Clay.

As a plain, poor secretary, sharing an apartment with her friend, Anne (Zasu Pitts), Sylvia Brenner (Constance Bennett) accepts her boss's marriage proposal, even though it's only so he can avoid being dragged into court, with another woman's divorce.

Plain, poor secretary Sylvia Brenner (Constance Bennett) is secretly in love with her philandering boss, Gaylord Stanton (Kenneth MacKenna).



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