Belle Bennett – MRQE

Mother

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The Battle of the Sexes

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Gum-chewing frizzy-haired golddigger Marie Skinner cooks up a scheme with her lover Babe Winsor, a jazz hound, to fleece a portly middle-aged real estate tycoon, William Judson. Marie moves into Judson’s apartment building and contrives to meet and seduce him, plying him with compliments, music, swoons, décolletage, and batted eyes. When his loyal wife (and their two children) see him out catting with Marie at a night club, mom’s devastated and confronts him. He moves out. Babe wants Marie to sell Judson worthless bonds. Will mom commit suicide? Will sis shoot the floozy? Will pops figure out he’s being a fool?

The Iron Mask

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

King Louis XIII of France is thrilled to have born to him a son – an heir to the throne. But when the queen delivers a twin, Cardinal Richelieu sees the second son as a potential for revolution, and has him sent off to Spain to be raised in secret to ensure a peaceful future for France. Alas, keeping the secret means sending Constance, lover of D’Artagnan, off to a convent. D’Artagnan hears of this and rallies the Musketeers in a bid to rescue her. Unfortunately, Richelieu out-smarts the Musketeers and banishes them forever.

Courage

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Belle Bennett plays as the widowed mother of seven children living in Sioux City, Iowa. She moves with them to Cambridge, Massachusetts in order to educate her children with culture and give them every advantage. Bennett, who is unversed in financial matters, soon faces poverty for herself and her children. She takes out a loan from an unscrupulous lender (played by Richard Tucker), who is so impressed by the charm and valiant spirit of Bennett than he neglects to ask her for collateral. Bennett, however, is only able to partially pay her creditors. Marion Nixon, Bennett’s eldest daughter, is shocked by her mother’s actions and attempts to sacrifice herself to Tucker in order to clear her mother’s obligations, even though she is engaged to marry a well to do Harvard undergraduate, played by Rex Bell. This film is believed lost.

The Big Shot

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A young man runs into trouble when he buys an auto court, only to find out that its located next to a swamp that drives away all potential customers.

Wild Geese

Thu, 11 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Silent romantic melodrama about a wife and mother who is desperate to keep a secret from the past IN the past, despite her husband’s intentions to reveal it.

The Way of All Flesh

Thu, 11 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The story takes place in Milwaukee during the early 1900s with a bank clerk named August Schiller who is happy with both his job and his family. He is tasked with transporting $1,000 in securities to Chicago. On the train he meets a blond seductress who convinces him to buy her a bottle of champagne, and takes him to a saloon. The next morning he awakes alone in a dilapidated bedroom and without the securities.

Stella Dallas

Wed, 24 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

An eccentric lower class woman struggles to gain respect in high society after marrying a wealthy man, and the problem gets worse when their daughter starts growing up.

Sweet Kitty Bellairs

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Previously filmed in England as The Incomparable Bellairs, Agnes and Egerton Castle’s romantic novel Sweet Kitty Bellairs(originally The Bath Comedy) served as an early movie vehicle for Mae Murray. Set in 18th-century England, the story concerns a flirtatious debutante who falls in love with a dashing highwayman. Robert Gray co-starred as bandit chieftain Captain O’Hara, while Tom Forman was cast as Lieutenant Varnay, the heroine’s erstwhile sweetheart. Though Mae Murray was never much of an actress, she was a fascinating screen presence, and it was her natural charisma that carried the film over its rough spots. Based on the David Belasco stage version of the Castles’ novel, Sweet Kitty Bellairs was remade as a musical comedy in 1930.

Recaptured Love

Sat, 06 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A married man leaves his wife after falling under the spell of a seductive chorus girl.