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Constance Bennett
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When Bennett and Plant divorced four years later, Bennett immediately returned to Hollywood and resumed her acting career, making pictures for Pathe, 20th Century Fox, and Warner Bros. along the way. Her old studio MGM had been keeping an eye on Bennett's growth as an actress when Louis B. Mayer hired her to star in The Easiest Way. MGM was considering signing Bennett again to another long-term contract, and this film would be a sort of test to see how well audiences took to her.
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Constance Bennett both produced and starred in the espionager Paris Underground. Bennett and Gracie Fields play, respectively, an American and an English citizen trapped in Paris when the Nazis invade. The women team up to help Allied aviators escape from the occupied city into Free French territory. The screenplay was based on the true wartime activities of Etta Shiber, who engineered the escape of nearly 300 Allied pilots. British fans of comedienne Gracie Fields were put off by the scenes in which she is tortured by the Gestapo, while Constance Bennett's following had been rapidly dwindling since the 1930s; as a result, the heartfelt but tiresome Paris Underground failed to make a dent at the box-office. It would be Constance Bennett's last starring film--and Gracie Fields' last film, period.
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Synopsis: A remake of the silent film Her Sister From Paris, Moulin Rouge stars Constance Bennett in a dual role as twin French entertainers. One is married to a songwriter (Franchot Tone), who doesn't want his wife to return to the stage. In order to hide the fact that she's gotten a job in a musical, theRead More
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Constance Campbell Bennett (October 22, 1904 - July 24, 1965) was a US actress known as much for her elegant persona as for her acting career. Largely underrated today, Bennett was one of Hollywood's most luminous stars, delivering amusing, madcap, and occasionally arch performances that belie her ornamental reputation.
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Four years later in 1935, Clark Gable co-starred again with Constance Bennett in the contemporary newspaper drama After Office Hours. This time around, Gable was on equal footing with Bennett, playing her love interest. It was the only other time the two worked together. Gable did... go on to make a total of 6 films with The Easiest Way director Jack Conway, who also became a good friend.
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In the 1960s, Bennett made a big comeback portraying the matriarch Elizabeth Collins Stoddard on the 1966-1971 gothic horror soap opera Dark Shadows. After the show left the air, Bennett went into semi-retiremnt, working infrequently until finally calling it a day in the early 1980s. Sadly, Joan Bennett passed away in 1990 at the age of 80.
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