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Leila Bennett is a Actor American born on 16 november 1892 at Newark (USA)
Leila Bennett (November 17, 1892 - January 5, 1965) was an American film actress who primarily appeared in supporting roles as either slapstick sidekicks, mousy maids, and scatterbrains. Her biggest trade mark was her long thin lips. Despite the last name likeness she was in no way related to actresses Constance Bennett, Joan Bennett, and Barbara Bennett.
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Nationality USA
Birth 16 november 1892 at Newark (USA)
Death 5 january 1965 (at 72 years) at New York City (USA)
Birth 16 november 1892 at Newark (USA)
Death 5 january 1965 (at 72 years) at New York City (USA)
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Fury (1936)
, 1h30Directed by Fritz Lang, Lesley Selander
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about capital punishment
Actors Sylvia Sidney, Spencer Tracy, Bruce Cabot, Walter Abel, Walter Brennan, Edward Ellis
Roles Edna Hooper
Rating77%
En route to meet his fiancée, Katherine Grant (Sylvia Sidney), Joe Wilson (Spencer Tracy) is arrested on flimsy circumstantial evidence for the kidnapping of a child. Gossip soon travels around the small town, growing more distorted through each retelling, until a mob gathers at the jail. When the resolute sheriff (Edward Ellis) refuses to give up his prisoner, the enraged townspeople burn down the building, two of them also throwing dynamite into the flames as they flee the scene. Unknown to anyone else there, the blast frees Wilson, but kills his little dog Rainbow, who had run in to comfort him in the cell.
Mark of the Vampire (1935)
, 1h1Directed by Tod Browning
Origin USA
Genres Horror, Crime
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Vampires in film
Actors Lionel Barrymore, Elizabeth Allan, Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill, Jean Hersholt, Carroll Borland
Roles Maria
Rating61%
Sir Karell Borotyn (Holmes Herbert) is found murdered in his house, with two tiny pinpoint wounds on his neck. The attending doctor, Dr. Doskil (Donald Meek), and Sir Karell's friend Baron Otto (Jean Hersholt) are convinced that he was killed by a vampire. They suspect Count Mora (Bela Lugosi) and his daughter Luna (Carroll Borland), while the Prague police inspector (Lionel Atwill) refuses to believe them.
Housewife (1934)
, 1h5Directed by Alfred E. Green
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors George Brent, Bette Davis, Ann Dvorak, John Halliday, Ruth Donnelly, Hobart Cavanaugh
Roles Jenny
Rating61%
Nan Reynolds (Ann Dvorak) struggles to run the household on her meek husband Bill's (George Brent) meager salary as an office manager. She urges him to apply for better jobs elsewhere, but he is disinclined to take risks, and his lack of ambition is placing a strain on their marriage.
Dames (1934)
, 1h31Directed by Busby Berkeley, Ray Enright
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Jean Rogers, Joan Blondell, Guy Kibbee, Zasu Pitts
Roles Laura
Rating69%
Eccentric multimillionaire Ezra Ounce (Hugh Herbert), whose main purpose in life is raising American morals through a nationwide campaign, wants to be assured that his fortune will be inherited by upstanding relatives, so he visits his cousin, Matilda Hemingway (ZaSu Pitts) in New York City, in Horace's view the center of immorality in America. What Ounce finds most offensive are musical comedy shows and the people who put them on, and it just so happens that Matilda's daughter, Barbara (Ruby Keeler), is a dancer and singer in love with a struggling singer and songwriter, her 13th cousin, Jimmy Higgens (Dick Powell). On Ezra's instructions, Jimmy the "black sheep" has been ostracized by the family, on pain of not receiving their inheritance.
Strictly Dynamite (1934)
, 1h11Directed by Elliott Nugent
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Actors Jimmy Durante, Lupe Vélez, Norman Foster, William Gargan, Marian Nixon, Eugene Pallette
Roles Miss Mary Hoffman
Rating57%
Norman Foster plays a poet whose life changes when he begins writing comedy for Durante and develops an infatuation for Durante's volatile partner.
Wagon Wheels (1934)
, 56minutesDirected by Charles Barton
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Musical, Romance, Western
Actors Randolph Scott, Gail Patrick, Billy Lee, Monte Blue, Raymond Hatton, Olin Howland
Roles Hetty Masters
Rating56%
En 1844, le scout Clint Belmet et ses deux acolytes guident un train de wagon vers le territoire nouvellement ouvert de l'Oregon malgré les difficultés et l'attaque indienne.
Once to Every Woman (1934)
, 1h10Directed by Lambert Hillyer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films
Actors Ralph Bellamy, Fay Wray, Walter Connolly, Mary Carlisle, J. Farrell MacDonald, Billie Seward
Roles Sally
Rating62%
Easy to Love (1934)
Directed by William Keighley
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Genevieve Tobin, Adolphe Menjou, Mary Astor, Edward Everett Horton, Patricia Ellis, Guy Kibbee
Roles Hotel Maid (uncredited)
Rating64%
When a woman finds out her husband is having an affair, she sets out to get even.
A Study in Scarlet (1933)
, 1h11Directed by Edwin L. Marin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Sherlock Holmes films, Buddy films
Actors Reginald Owen, Anna May Wong, Alan Dinehart, Sr., J. M. Kerrigan, June Clyde, Wyndham Standing
Roles Daffy Dolly
Rating56%
Les membres d'une société secrète londonienne succombent les uns après les autres dans de mystérieuses circonstances. Lorsque vient le tour du richissime Sir James Murphy, sa veuve désespérée fait appel aux services du détective Sherlock Holmes pour qu'il découvre ce qu'il est advenu de la fortune de son défunt mari...
No Other Woman (1933)
, 58minutesDirected by J. Walter Ruben, James Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Irene Dunne, Charles Bickford, Gwili Andre, Christian Rub, J. Carrol Naish, Eric Linden
Roles Susie
Rating59%
Anna (Irene Dunne) yearns to escape from Pittsburgh and tells her boyfriend, steelworker Jim Stanley (Charles Bickford) that she will never marry a steelworker, but he changes her mind. After their marriage, however, she does not abandon her dream; she gets as much money as she can and runs a boarding house to build up their savings.
Sunset Pass (1933)
, 1h1Directed by Henry Hathaway
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure, Romance, Western
Actors Randolph Scott, Tom Keene, Leila Bennett, Kathleen Burke, Harry Carey, Noah Beery Sr.
Roles Hetty Miller
Rating68%
Terror Aboard (1933)
, 1h9Directed by Paul Sloane
Origin USA
Genres Horror
Actors John Halliday, Charles Ruggles, Shirley Grey, Neil Hamilton, Jack La Rue, Verree Teasdale
Roles Lena Klein
Rating65%
Doctor X (1932)
, 1h16Directed by Michael Curtiz
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Comedy, Horror, Crime
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Lee Tracy, Fay Wray, Lionel Atwill, Preston Foster, John Wray, Harry Beresford
Roles Mamie
Rating63%
Doctor X is a graphic mystery-horror film with some tongue-in-cheek comedic elements. It is considered by some to be of the "old dark house" genre of horror films, and takes place in 1932 New York City and Long Island.
The Purchase Price (1932)
, 1h8Directed by William A. Wellman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Lyle Talbot, Hardie Albright, David Landau, Murray Kinnell
Roles Emily
Rating63%
Joan Gordon (Barbara Stanwyck), a New York torch singer who has been performing since age 15, has left her wealthy criminal boyfriend, Eddie Fields (Lyle Talbot), for upstanding citizen Don Leslie (Hardie Albright). However, Don's father has found out about her relationship with Eddie; she and Don break off their engagement, and she decides to leave town rather than return to Eddie. In Montreal, she changes her name and resumes performing; not long thereafter, one of Eddie's men recognizes her and informs his boss. Unwilling to return to him, she trades places with her hotel's maid (Leila Bennett), who had used Joan's picture when corresponding with a North Dakota farmer in search of a mail-order bride. Offering the maid $100 (about 7 weeks' wages) for the farmer's address, Joan sets out to become the wife of Jim Gilson (George Brent), with only a vague idea of all the hardships of farm life during the height of the Great Depression.
Emma (1932)
, 1h12Directed by Clarence Brown
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Actors Marie Dressler, Richard Cromwell, Jean Hersholt, Myrna Loy, Barbara Kent, Dale Fuller
Roles Matilda
Rating68%
Inventor Frederick Smith's wife dies during the birth of their fourth baby, Ronnie, leaving the family in the care of their faithful housekeeper Emma. Twenty years later, after Smith's inventions have made the family rich, the affable Ronnie, who is Emma's favorite, arrives home from college, announcing that he wants to quit school and become a pilot. The other Smith children, Bill, Gypsy and Isabelle, have all grown into spoiled adults, but Emma lovingly indulges them all, making excuses for their bad behavior to their father and everyone else.