Australians in Hollywood : Biographical Notes

Enid Bennett
Enid Bennett (1893-1969), actress, worked on the stage before appearing in two Australian films directed by (and starring) the touring American actor Fred Niblo: Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford and Officer 666. By 1916, when both films were released, Bennett had accompanied Niblo and his wife Josephine back to Hollywood. Niblo and Bennett married in 1917, following Josephine's death. Enid secured acting work with Thomas Ince Studios, and appeared in several films opposite Niblo, including The Bootlegger's Daughter and Scandalous Tongues (both 1922). Niblo would become one of the leading Hollywood directors of the silent era with such films as Blood and Sand (1922) and Ben-Hur (1927). Enid would be chiefly remembered for playing Maid Marian to Douglas Fairbanks's Robin Hood (1922). She was also in Intermezzo (1939), Waterloo Bridge (1940) and Strike Up the Band (1940), and helped launch the screen career of her younger sister Marjorie, who appeared in the Chaplin films Monsieur Verdoux (1947) and Limelight (1952).

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