
Birthday:
11-16-1892
Deathday:
01-05-1965 (72 years)
Birthplace:
Newark, New Jersey, USA
Biography
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.
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Doctor X
Act like Mamie
event1932 star_border 6
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A wisecracking New York reporter intrudes on a research scientist's quest to unmask The Moon Killer.
The Purchase Price
Act like Emily
event1932 star_border 6.6
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Nightclub singer Joan Gordon runs away from her gangster boyfriend to become a mail-order bride to a struggling North Dakota farmer. Their relationship has a rocky start, but just as Joan realizes she's developing feelings for her husband, her old boyfriend arrives to win her back.
Terror Aboard
Act like Lena Klein
event1933 star_border 6
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An ocean liner is found at sea with everyone on board dead. An investigation is begun to find out what happened.
Emma
Act like Matilda
event1932 star_border 6.5
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After decades of raising the motherless Smith children, housekeeper Emma Thatcher is faced with resentment when she marries their father.
Tiger Shark
Act like Muggsey
event1932 star_border 6.8
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A Portuguese tuna fisherman catches his bride with his first mate.
Housewife
Act like Jenny
event1934 star_border 7.6
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Nan Reynolds encourages her copywriter husband Bill to open his own agency. Nearly out of business, he finally gets a client. Former girlfriend Patricia Berkeley writes a very successful commercial for the client and neats up their old romance. Wife and girlfriend struggle over Bill.
No Other Woman
Act like Susie
event1933 star_border 5.2
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A steelworker and his aspiring wife make millions when they become partners in a dyeworks. Unfortunately, success does not bring happiness.
Sunset Pass
Act like Hetty Miller
event1933 star_border 6
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A US marshal goes undercover to bust up a bunch of rustlers.
Gentleman's Fate
Act like Lunch Counter Attendant
event1931 star_border 5.5
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A bootlegger falls apart when his wife leaves him.
One New York Night
Act like Betty
event1935
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Foxhall Ridgeway, arriving in New York City from the West, stumbles onto a murder in the hotel room next to his. He gets tangled up into the affair, and with the aid of Phoebe, the hotel telephone operator who takes a liking to him, and also Countess Louise Browssiloff, who innocently had left some personal belongings in the murdered man's room and is most anxious to recover the incriminating evidence, Foxhall solves the murder mystery.
Fury
Act like Edna Hooper
event1936 star_border 7.5
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Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.
Dames
Act like Laura
event1934 star_border 6.3
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A reformer's daughter wins the lead role in a scandalous Broadway show.
Easy to Love
Act like Hotel Maid (uncredited)
event1934 star_border 5.1
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Carol feels, for whatever reason, that her husband, John, has grown indifferent to her, and is on a quest to find out why, suspecting another woman. She sees the family physician, Dr. Swope, first and then hires a private detective. Her own sleuthing is more effective and she devises a plan; having long been pursued by Eric, she apparently accedes and accompanies him to an apartment and, per her plan, enter the wrong one. There, they find Carol's best friend, Charlotte, and John hiding in a closet. The latter, showing more nerve than good sense, goes into a rage and berates Carol for her apparent philandering. The battle continues at home, where their daughter Janet informs them that because of them, she and Paul have given up on the idea of marriage, but are going away together, anyway. Carol and John trail them to a hotel and find them in twin beds, whereupon John, armed with a fire-ax, summons a justice of the peace and demands a fire-ax version of a shotgun wedding.
Unknown Blonde
Act like The Maid
event1934 star_border 1
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An unprincipled hustler who makes his living getting--or making up--evidence in divorce cases finds that he's framing his own daughter.
The First Year
Act like Hattie
event1932
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Grace Livingston is leading a happy life in her small town, with her mother and father, being courted by two men, the steady but predictable Tommy Tucker and the more ambitious, flashy, and worldly Dick Loring, who seems closer to Grace in his desire for travel and adventure.
Taxi!
Act like Ruby
event1931 star_border 6.8
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Amidst a backdrop of growing violence and intimidation, independent cab drivers struggling against a consolidated juggernaut rally around hot-tempered Matt Nolan. Nolan is determined to keep competition alive on the streets, even if it means losing the woman he loves.
Mark of the Vampire
Act like Maria
event1935 star_border 6.1
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Sir Borotyn, a prominent Prague resident, is discovered murdered in his home, with all indications pointing to a vampire assault. The victim's friend, Baron Otto, and the physician who analyzes the body are certain that the vampire is the mysterious Count Mora, or perhaps his daughter, but receive little help from the law. Professor Zelen, an expert in the occult, is called in to assist with the investigation.
Wagon Wheels
Act like Hetty Masters
event1934 star_border 5.1
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A wagon train heads west from Independence, Mo., along the Oregon Trail, led by proud cowboy Clint Belmet. On board are feisty young widow Nancy Wellington and her toddler, Sonny, as well as the older Abby Masters, who begins a romance with scout Jim Burch. Along the way, the wagon train battles Indians led by Kenneth Murdock, a trapper who doesn't welcome competition for Oregon's lucrative fur trade. Wagon Wheels is a 1934 remake of 1931's Fighting Caravans, using stock footage from the original.
Once to Every Woman
Act like Sally
event1934 star_border 5.8
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An able nurse clashes with a new doctor at her hospital.
A Study in Scarlet
Act like Daffy Dolly
event1933 star_border 5.5
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In London, a secret society led by lawyer Thaddeus Merrydew collects the assets of any of its deceased members and divides them among the remaining members. Society members start dropping like flies. Sherlock Holmes is approached by member James Murphy's widow, who is miffed at being left penniless by her husband. When Captain Pyke is shot, Holmes keys in on his mysterious Chinese widow as well as the shady Merrydew. Other members keep dying: Malcom Dearing first, then Mr. Baker. There is also an attempt on the life of young Eileen Forrester, who became a reluctant society member upon the death of her father. Holmes' uncanny observations and insights are put to the test.
Strictly Dynamite
Act like Miss Mary Hoffman
event1934 star_border 5.3
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A failed poet ends up becoming a gag writer for a bombastic comedian.
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