Constance Campbell Bennett was an American stage, film, radio, and television actress and producer. She was a major Hollywood star during the 1920s and 1930s; during the early 1930s, she was the highest-paid actress in Hollywood. 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 remembered for her leading roles in What Price Hollywood? (1932), Bed of Roses (1933), Topper (1937), Topper Takes a Trip (1938), and had a prominent supporting role in Greta Garbo's last film, Two-Faced Woman (1941).
Bennett in Rockabye (1932)
Richard Bennett in 1918 with his three daughters (from left), Constance, Joan, and Barbara
Lowell Sherman and Bennett in What Price Hollywood? (1932)
Bennett and her daughters with painting (background) of her and her son, 1944
What Price Hollywood? is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by George Cukor and starring Constance Bennett with Lowell Sherman. The screenplay by Gene Fowler, Rowland Brown, Jane Murfin and Ben Markson is based on a story by Adela Rogers St. Johns and Louis Stevens. The supporting cast features Neil Hamilton, Gregory Ratoff, Brooks Benedict, Louise Beavers and Eddie "Rochester" Anderson.
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Lowell Sherman and Constance Bennett in What Price Hollywood?
Lowell Sherman, Neil Hamilton and Constance Bennett in What Price Hollywood? (1932)