Word: bennett
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Protector. The harsh fact was that Harry Bennett had outlived his usefulness to the empire. The things which he had spent his life protecting it against were now dead issues. Fresh out of the U.S. Navy, he was hired by Old Henry in 1917 to guard the Ford plants against saboteurs. Then he took over the job of guarding the Ford family from kidnappers. He was unable to protect Mr. Ford from swallowing whole the Protocols of Zion,* but kept him from making any more such mistakes. Often, when Mr. Ford blurted something to reporters which might...
...Bennett fought hardest to protect the empire from unionism, yet when he lost he was the first to advise Old Henry to sign up. In his long role as guardian, squat, flint-hard, bow-tied Mr. Bennett (he never wore a four-in-hand for fear someone would use it to choke him) was shot at, beaten up and stoned (see cut). He took all this as part of his watchdog job, relaxed by painting in oils, never questioned anything which Mr. Ford wanted done. He saw no reason to question. Said he: "I believe in the things that...
...United Artists) is based on the best seller about two women who helped smuggle some 200 British soldiers back to England. The book was authentic enough to have caused trouble for a number of real French undergrounders. The screen version will probably cause trouble to nobody except, perhaps, Constance Bennett. It-is her first venture as a producer...
This curtailed, modified account of the ladies' exploits (Miss Bennett plays a rather fast estranged wife) seems a little obsolescent by now and also not much like the real thing. But as a piece of melodramatic, patriotic entertainment it has its points. The producer's feminine touch can be seen in some intricately propped interiors and a very pretty sequence of a rain-drenched funeral procession. Gracie Fields' performance as the English spinster is near perfect. And Connie Bennett herself, who has lost nothing of her tough, wiry glamor with the years, gives fine style and energy...
...Producer. Miss Bennett is not easily embarrassed. "After all," as she explained, "I'm not getting any younger [she will be 40 this month] and this being glamorous can't go on forever. I don't see why I shouldn't get established as a producer...