Leila Bennett

Leila Bennett was an American film actress who built her career on the stage before moving to Hollywood, where she usually played slapstick sidekicks, mousy maids and scatterbrains. Born in Newark, New Jersey, she came to acting through the Harry Blaney Stock Company in Brooklyn and made her New York stage debut in 1919 as Mandy Coulter in the comedy Thunder, a performance the New-York Tribune praised. She appeared in plays including The First Year and It's a Wise Child before leaving live theater in 1931. Her film debut came in an uncredited role in Gentleman's Fate, and she worked steadily as a freelancer for studios such as Warner Bros., RKO, Columbia and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Her credits included Taxi! (1932), The Purchase Price (1932), Doctor X (1932), A Study in Scarlet (1933), Mark of the Vampire (1935) and Fury (1936), in which she played Edna Hopper and earned praise from the Chillicothe Constitution-Tribune. She died in 1965.