Constance Bennett Death
Constance passed away on July 24, 1965 at the age of 60 in Fort Dix, New Jersey, USA. Constance's cause of death was cerebral hemorrhage.
When did Constance Bennett die?
July 24, 1965How did Constance Bennett die? What was the cause of death?
Cerebral hemorrhageHow old was Constance Bennett when died?
60Where did Constance Bennett die? What was the location of death?
Fort Dix, New Jersey, USA
Constance Bennett Birthday and Date of Death
Constance Bennett was born on October 22, 1904 and died on July 24, 1965. Constance was 60 years old at the time of death.
Birthday: October 22, 1904
Date of Death: July 24, 1965
Age at Death: 60
Is Constance Bennett's father, Richard Bennett, dead or alive?
Richard Bennett's information is not available now.
Is Constance Bennett's mother, Adrienne Morrison, dead or alive?
Adrienne Morrison's information is not available now.
Constance Bennett's sisters :
Constance has 2 sisters:Constance Bennett's sister, Barbara Bennett, died on August 8, 1958 as he was 51 years old. His cause of death was suicide.
Constance Bennett's sister, Joan Bennett, died on December 7, 1990 as he was 80 years old. His cause of death was heart attack.
Constance Bennett - Biography
Constance Campbell Bennett was an American film actress and a major Hollywood star during the 1920s and 1930s. During the early 1930s, she was for a time the highest-paid actress in Hollywood, and one of the most popular. Bennett frequently played society women, focusing on melodramas in the early 1930s and then taking more comedic roles in the late 1930s and 1940s. She is best known today for her leading roles in Topper, in which she co-starred with Cary Grant; its sequel Topper Takes a Trip (1938); and What Price Hollywood? (1932), the inspiration for the 1937 film A Star is Born and its subsequent remakes. Bennett also had a prominent supporting role in Greta Garbo's last film, Two-Faced Woman (1941).
Constance Bennett was born in New York City, the eldest of three daughters of actress Adrienne Morrison and actor Richard Bennett. Her younger sisters were actresses Joan Bennett and Barbara Bennett. All three girls attended the Chapin School in New York.
On June 15, 1921, Bennett eloped with Chester Hirst Moorehead of Chicago, a student at the University of Virginia who was the son of an oral surgeon. They were married by a justice of the peace in Greenwich, Connecticut. Bennett was 17 at the time. A New York Times article that reported the elopement noted, "The parents of Miss Bennett were opposed to their marriage at this time solely on account of their youth." The marriage was annulled in 1923.
Bennett's next serious relationship was with millionaire socialite Philip Morgan Plant. Her parents planned a cruise to Europe, taking Constance with them, to separate the couple. As the ship was preparing to leave port, however, the Bennetts saw Plant and his parents boarding, too. A contemporary newspaper article reported, "Now the little beauty and the heir to all the Plant millions were assured a week of the cosy intimacy which an ocean liner affords." In November 1925, the two eloped and were married in Greenwich, Connecticut, by the same justice of the peace who officiated at Bennett's wedding to Moorehead. They divorced in a French court in 1929.
In 1931, Bennett made headlines when she married one of Gloria Swanson's former husbands, Henri le Bailly, the Marquis de La Coudraye de La Falaise, a French nobleman and film director. She 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. They were divorced in Reno, Nevada in 1940.
Bennett's fourth marriage was to actor Gilbert Roland. They were married in 1941 and had two daughters, Lorinda (b. 1938) and Christina "Gyl" (b. 1941); they divorced in 1946. Later that year, Bennett married for the fifth and final time to US Air Force Colonel (later Brigadier General) John Theron Coulter. After her marriage, she concentrated her efforts on providing relief entertainment to US troops still stationed in Europe, winning military honors for her services. Bennett and Coulter remained married until her death in 1965.
