Talk:Constance Bennett

Deletion

We do have an article on Constance Bennett. I suppose the statement to the contrary should be deleted. Not sure what it should say so leave that to others. Just watched a technicolor musical starring Constance with Warner Baxter, Alan Mowbray, Mischa Auer, and others. What a gorgeous, classy creature she was! She made the clothes she wore look great! She would have made a potato sack look great! Pity she died young.

Link

Deleted link to Richard Bennett as it's the wrong Richard Bennett.

Comments

These notes are hard to follow if no one signs the comments. Meetbawl (talk) 22:36, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

Military contributions?

it is stated that she was buried in arlington as a consequence of her 'military contributions'. but no mention is made anywhere of what these may have been. did she do uso shows? was she actually in the military? can't tell from this article. people who write here need to learn how to do a cohesive, cogent article. this kind of loose end looks really, really bad.Toyokuni3 (talk) 17:48, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

1938 Libel Suit

In the Jan/6/1938 Toledo News-Bee, pg 18 ("Radio is Too Nice") there's a mention of a $250,000 libel suit by Constance Bennett, apparently against newspaper/radio gossip columnist Jimmy Fidler. http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=k_8v9Q84L5sC&dat=19380106&printsec=frontpage&hl=en pg 18

This is mentioned on wikipedia's page for Fidler, but not here on Bennet's page. There is no mention on Fidler's page of the suit's outcome. The description on the Fidler page makes it seem like a trifle, one actress snubbing another on a movie set, hardly grounds for libel.

Though I can find plenty of examples of Fidler's newspaper column, "Hollywood Shots" from around that time period, (e.g. in the Reading Eagle Dec/1/1937), I've been unable to discover any more information about this libel suit. http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=ZuSUVyMx-TgC&dat=19371201&printsec=frontpage&hl=en pg 15

DiffuseGoose (talk) 15:46, 6 January 2015 (UTC)

Ahhh, just found more detail about the original suit, in the St. Petersburg Evening Independent Jan/4/1938, pg 7. http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=950&dat=19380104&id=aeNPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=M1UDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2046,1030560 and Fidler won the suit, St. Petersburg Evening Independent Oct/17/1938, pg 11, by which time the amount had grown to $600,000. http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=888&dat=19381017&id=2mgxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=UU0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=5725,5493564 DiffuseGoose (talk) 15:51, 6 January 2015 (UTC)

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