Alma Bennett

Alma Bennett

Born: April 9, 1904
Died: September 16, 1958
in Seattle, Washington, U.S.A
Alma Bennett, born Alma Long, was an American film actress of the silent era. She appeared in 64 films between 1915 and 1931, mostly as alluring vamps.

Movies for Alma Bennett...

Midnight Daddies
Title: Midnight Daddies
Character: Camille McNab - Vamp
Released: October 3, 1930
Type: Movie
Midnight Daddies is a black-and-white comedy short.
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New Orleans
Title: New Orleans
Character: Marie Cartier
Released: June 1, 1929
Type: Movie
Billy, a jockey, and Jim, an assistant manager of a New Orleans racetrack, are close friends. They become bitter enemies because of Marie, an unprincipled young woman who marries Jim after betraying her first fiancé, Billy, on their wedding day. Marie's extravagance causes Jim to steal money from the office safe and to bet on Billy. Billy wins, but Jim is arrested and sent to jail when Marie neglects to replace the stolen money. Jim serves his term and is reunited with Billy after Marie and her lover are turned out of the house.
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My Lady's Past
Title: My Lady's Past
Released: April 1, 1929
Type: Movie
The BFI holds a complete copy.
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Motorboat Mamas
Title: Motorboat Mamas
Character: 1st Cabaret Entertainer
Released: September 30, 1928
Type: Movie
Motorboat Mamas is a silent comedy short.
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The Campus Carmen
Title: The Campus Carmen
Character: Vamp in Play
Released: September 22, 1928
Type: Movie
A campus set-up of Carmen featuring Daphne Pollard & Carole Lombard.
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The Best Man
Title: The Best Man
Character: Bride
Released: February 8, 1928
Type: Movie
A bride and groom are all set to get married, but they can't until the best man shows up. When the best man eventually does show up, he causes a few problems since he ran through some tar just before entering the church. The groom doesn't seem to mind too much, just as long as the best man brought the ring, which he did. But as the wedding proceeds, that sticky tar just can't help but get the best man into one disastrous incident after another, including with the ring. That havoc, which leads into the reception, the wedding night and the honeymoon send off, may end the marriage even before it begins... or at least the couple's friendship with their best man.
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The Head of the Family
Title: The Head of the Family
Character: Mabel Manning
Released: January 18, 1928
Type: Movie
Silent Comedy film directed by Joseph C. Boyle
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Gold Digger of Weepah
Title: Gold Digger of Weepah
Character: Alma - the Gold Digger
Released: October 2, 1927
Type: Movie
Gold Digger of Weepah is a silent comedy short
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The Golf Nut
Title: The Golf Nut
Character: The Club President's Wife
Released: September 3, 1927
Type: Movie
Many of its members are spending a leisurely day at the the El Caballero Golf Club, the most beautiful in California. Also visiting for the day is non-member, Billy Divott, a golf enthusiast who is a little too enthusiastic. He seems to cause havoc everywhere he goes, especially as he plays a round of golf and tries to teach who he considers some of the less experienced members the finer points of the game. That havoc is compounded whenever he deals with sand traps, water traps or especially flying insects with stingers.
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Catalina, Here I Come
Title: Catalina, Here I Come
Character: Pearl Minnow
Released: April 16, 1927
Type: Movie
Wanda is a gum-chewing waitress; dim Eddie, the pastry boy at the café, likes her. So does Mr. Hamhocks, the café owner, whose head is also turned by the arrival of Pearl Minnow, a gold digger in town for the annual Catalina Channel Swim, sponsored by Wrigley's. Wanda and Pearl take a dislike to each other; Hamhocks is charmed by Pearl and Eddie stays loyal to Wanda. The day of the swimming contest arrives, the two women compete, and the two men try to help their respective gals. Their trials and tribulations mix with documentary footage of the event. An angry swordfish gets in the act.
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Long Pants
Title: Long Pants
Character: His downfall
Released: March 26, 1927
Type: Movie
Harry Shelby has been kept in knee pants for years by his overprotective parents, but the day finally comes when Harry is given his first pair of long pants. Almost immediately, he is expected to marry his childhood sweetheart Priscilla... but instead, Harry's first heady whiff of manhood has got him panting after Bebe, a "fast" woman from the big city. Mistakenly thinking that Bebe fancies him too, Harry risks everything to help her out when she lands in jail, only to end up in hot water himself. Through it all, sweet Priscilla waits for her man to come to his senses.
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The Jolly Jilter
Title: The Jolly Jilter
Character: Alma
Released: March 13, 1927
Type: Movie
Silent comedy short film starring Ben Turpin
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Orchids and Ermine
Title: Orchids and Ermine
Character: The Vamp
Released: March 6, 1927
Type: Movie
Set in New York City, flapper Pink Watson works a telephone operator at a cement factory who dreams of marrying rich. Her constant daydreaming of wealth annoys her fellow workers, and ruins the heart of one of her worshiping colleagues.
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The Silent Lover
Title: The Silent Lover
Character: Haldee
Released: November 21, 1926
Type: Movie
Based on the 1922 play Der Legionër by Lajos Biró.
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Don Juan's 3 Nights
Title: Don Juan's 3 Nights
Character: Carlotta
Released: September 4, 1926
Type: Movie
A concert pianist who is popular with women tries to discourage a teenage admirer.
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Brooding Eyes
Title: Brooding Eyes
Character: Agnes De Costa
Released: March 15, 1926
Type: Movie
Slim Jim Carey, the leader of a criminal gang, is in reality a nobleman called Lord Talbois, and his daughter is the rightful heir to the family estate. When "Slim Jim"'s gang finds out about this, they conspire to cheat her out of her inheritance by passing off one of the gangster's girlfriends as the real daughter. Unbeknownst to the gang, however, their leader isn't dead and finds out what they're up to. Complications ensue.
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Meet My Girl
Title: Meet My Girl
Character: Alimony Alma
Released: March 7, 1926
Type: Movie
Meet My Girl is a comedy silent short.
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A Sweet Pickle
Title: A Sweet Pickle
Character: Flora Foster
Released: October 25, 1925
Type: Movie
A Sweet Pickle is a 1925 Comedy short.
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The Light of Western Stars
Title: The Light of Western Stars
Character: Bonita
Released: June 22, 1925
Type: Movie
Jack Holt, Billie Dove, and Noah Beery Sr., who starred together in Wanderers of the Wasteland, appear together again. Madeline Hammond, the sister of ranchman Al Hammond, arrives from the East. Gene Stewart, a rough and rowdy cowboy, convinces Madeline to marry him while he is on a drunken spree. Madeline sets out to reform him, and he sets out to rid their little section of the West of a band of outlaws.
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The Lost World
Title: The Lost World
Character: Gladys Hungerford
Released: February 2, 1925
Type: Movie
The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.
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Her Boy Friend
Title: Her Boy Friend
Character: The Vamp
Released: September 27, 1924
Type: Movie
Young and beautiful Iva Method is spying for the police at the Dropem Inn, a sleazy club that the police suspect is a front for a bootlegging operation run by gangster Slim Chance. Chance discovers Iva's identity and kidnaps her, and the police chief sends his bumbling son Larry to rescue her.
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Why Men Leave Home
Title: Why Men Leave Home
Character: Jean Ralston
Released: March 3, 1924
Type: Movie
John and Irene Emerson's marriage begins well enough, but it is not long before John becomes less attentive. Feeling neglected, Irene spends more time with her girl friends, and John, consequently, falls prey to the vamping wiles of his secretary, Jean Ralston. When John comes home from the theater smelling of Jean's perfume, Irene procures a divorce; John then marries Jean.
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Lilies of the Field
Title: Lilies of the Field
Character: Doris
Released: February 29, 1924
Type: Movie
A young mother, Mildred, doesn't know that her husband Walter is cheating on her. One night she attends a party with a friend of her husband's, and the man gets drunk and begins groping her when they get home. Her husband sees this and uses it as an excuse to sue his wife for divorce. In the ensuing trial he wins, due to fraudulent evidence, and gets custody of the child. Complications ensue.
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Three Jumps Ahead
Title: Three Jumps Ahead
Character: Annie Darrell
Released: March 25, 1923
Type: Movie
John Ford both directed and wrote the story (based on his published work The Hostage), a typical western romance in which Mix falls for the daughter of an imperiled rancher. This above-average Tom Mix western contains one of the star's more spectacular stunts -- a jump on horseback across the 20-foot Beale's Cut. Truth be told, the star, who frequently did his own stunt work, was forced to use a double this time
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The Face on the Barroom Floor
Title: The Face on the Barroom Floor
Character: Lottie
Released: January 1, 1923
Type: Movie
As a derelict paints the face of a girl on a barroom floor, the plot is developed in a series of flashbacks: Robert Stevens, an artist engaged to marry Marion, a society girl, becomes charmed with a fisherman's daughter who poses for him. The society girl's brother brings dishonor upon the fisherman's daughter, and when she commits suicide the artist shields the brother. Stevens is blamed by his fiancée, who terminates their engagement. The artist becomes a derelict and is wrongfully imprisoned. Eventually Stevens is exonerated and reunited with Marion.
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Without Compromise
Title: Without Compromise
Character: Nora Foster
Released: October 29, 1922
Type: Movie
When the ability of Dick Leighton (William Farnum), Sheriff of Randolph, Oregon, to enforce law and order is tested by the leader of the political opposition, he stands his ground and overpowers the unruly element.
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The Affairs of Anatol
Title: The Affairs of Anatol
Character: Chorus Girl
Released: September 25, 1921
Type: Movie
Socialite Anatol Spencer, finding his relationship with his wife lackluster, goes in search of excitement. After bumping into old flame Emilie, he lets an apartment for her only to find that she cheats on him. He is subsequently robbed, conned, and booted from pillar to post. He decides to return to his wife and discovers her carousing with his best friend Max.
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Thieves' Clothes
Title: Thieves' Clothes
Released: May 22, 1920
Type: Movie
A ranchman sets fire to his trousers with a cigarette. In the morning the hotel attendant furnishes him with a pair borrowed from a cattle rustler. A note in one of the pockets gets the hero into trouble, but he clears himself and wins the girl of his choice.
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The Right to Happiness
Title: The Right to Happiness
Character: Lily
Released: August 30, 1919
Type: Movie
The story of twin sisters, one raised in Russia, the other in America, and how their lives diverge and re-entangle.