Marjorie Bennett

• Born: 1894 in York, Australia
• Died: Jun 14, 1982 in Hollywood, California
• Occupation: Actor
• Active: '50s-'70s
• Major Genres: Comedy, Crime
• Career Highlights: Monsieur Verdoux, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Better Late Than Never
• First Major Screen Credit: Monsieur Verdoux (1947)

Biography

Australian actress Marjorie Bennett made her first film appearances in the pre-World War I years at the suggestion of her sister, silent film star Enid Bennett. Marjorie wasn't yet under the spell of the acting bug, so she abandoned performing for several years, re-emerging as a stage rather than screen actress. She returned to films in the late 1940s as a character player, notably in Charles Chaplin's Monsieur Verdoux (1947) and Limelight (1952). A prolific film and TV performer of the 1950s and 1960s, Marjorie Bennett was usually cast as huffy society matrons and haughty domestics; her massive bulk and easily outraged demeanor made her a perfect straight woman for such iconoclastic comedians as Red Skelton and the Three Stooges. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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