Word: bennetts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Richard C. Floyd '11, Chairman, Arthur A. Adams '99, C. Russell Allen '38, William A. Barron, Jr. '14, Edward H. Bennett '37, Charles C. Buell '23, James A. Burgess '04, J. Fletcher Chace '38, Frederic C. Church '20, Forrester A. Clark '38, John R. Clark '38, Laurence Curtis '16, Roger W. Cutler '11, John H. Dean '34, F. Stanton Deland '36, Charles Devens '32, Henry T. Dunker '25, Samuel M. Felton, 3rd '13, W. Cameron Forbes '92, George S. Ford '37, James J. Gaffney '37, William F. Garcelon '95, G. Peabody Gardner, Jr. '10, Robert H. Hallowell '96, Huntington...
...Joan Bennett, who spurned the stage for the screen, now comes back from the screen to the stage to tell about a girl who refused to spurn the stage for the screen. If this minor irony doesn't obtrude itself upon your attention, you will find George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber's "Stage Door" a rather absorbing bit of sentimental comedy. With Mr. Kaufman monopolizing the Boylston-Tremont region, go see "You Can't Take It With You" first, then "Stage Door", and finally "I'd Rather Be Right"; or, proceed in the reverse order...
...Miss Bennett is charming and intelligent in her representation of the strong-willed heroine. Sometimes one suspects her of being just a little uneasy, but then the explanation always suggests itself that the embarrassment belongs to the character, and not to the actress. Richard Kendrick makes an excellent Keith Burgess, the Communist who thought better of it when he made some money, and Douglas Gilmore is a dignified victim of Hollywood's rapacity. The cast, however, is a huge one, and no small part of the interest comes from studying the various members of the Footlight Club. Having only...
...Stage Door is based on the fairly plausible assumption that the legitimate stage is worth starving for, but that its illegitimate child should be called by the shorter name for such offspring, Miss Bennett as Terry Randall struggles through three acts and six scenes defending that creed. She sees her beau, an ill-mannered thunder-and-lightning radical, get enmeshed in the celluloid toils, and tells him where to go when he tries to sweep her off to his California paradise. She sees her best friend in the Footlight Club, the actress's refuge, escape from failure...
Divorced. Actor Richard Bennett, father of Actresses Joan, Barbara, Constance; by Angela Raisch Bennett; in Los Angeles. Married since 1927, they separated in 1934. Mrs. Bennett was awarded $60,000 community property. Said she: "Dick would go temporarily insane, and play his parts with such realism that he climaxed one performance by driving a nail file through my cheek...