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Charles Bennett (11 March 1889 – 15 February 1943) was a New Zealand-born American actor who was successful in silent films.
Bennett was born in Dunedin, New Zealand and died in Hollywood, California. He started his film career in Keystone comedies like Tillie's Punctured Romance and The Property Man. He also appeared in the Broadway musical Of Thee I Sing between 1931 and 1933. The sound film damaged his career and he got reduced to bit parts during his later film appareances. However, he was notable as the entertainer in the Inquirer party sequence in Citizen Kane (1941). He appeared in over 100 films between 1912 until his death in 1943. Bennett was married to actress Boots Mallory.
Actors: George Jessel (actor), Don Brodie (actor), Al Herman (actor), Frank Ferguson (actor), Craig Hill (actor), Nolan Leary (actor), Wilton Graff (actor), John Gallaudet (actor), Willis Bouchey (actor), Sam Ash (actor), Harry Carter (actor), Fred Essler (actor), Heinie Conklin (actor), Ray Montgomery (actor), Jimmie Dodd (actor),
Plot: This semi-film within a film opens in the office of producer George Jessel, who never saw a camera he couldn't get in front of, who is holding a story conference to determine the screen treatment for the life of Eva Tanguay, and Jessel is unhappy with what the writers present him.He tells them to look up Eddie McCoy, Eva's one-time partner, for the real inside story on the lusty and vital Eva. Eddie's version is that he discovered her working as a waitress in an Indianapolis restaurant in 1912, wherein singer Larry Woods and his partner Charles Bennett get into a fight over her and both land in the hospital, and McCoy convinces the manager to put Eva on as a single to fill their spot. She flopped, but McCoy arranges for Bennett to be her accompanist, and she went out of his life. The writers look up Bennett, now head of a music publishing company, who says McCoy's story is phony, and it was Flo Zigfeld who discovered Eva for his Follies. Then Jessel's staff comes up with a letter from Larry Woods with another version.
Genres: Biography, Musical,