page_title: Constance Bennett
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Constance Bennett / Early life
caption_attribution_description: Photograph of actor Richard Bennett with his three daughters (from left): Constance Bennett, Joan Bennett and Barbara Bennett
context_page_description: Constance Campbell Bennett, was an American stage, film, radio and television actress. She was a major Hollywood star during the 1920s and 1930s and for a time during the early 1930s, she was the highest-paid actress in Hollywood, as well as one of the most popular. Bennett frequently played society women, focusing on melodramas in the early 1930s and then taking more comedic roles in the late 1930s and 1940s. She is best known today for her leading roles in What Price Hollywood?, Bed of Roses, Topper, Topper Takes a Trip, and had a prominent supporting role in Greta Garbo's last film, Two-Faced Woman.
  She was the daughter of stage and silent film star Richard Bennett, and the older sister of actress Joan Bennett.
context_section_description: Constance Bennett was born in New York City, the eldest of three daughters of actress Adrienne Morrison and actor Richard Bennett. Her younger sisters were actresses Joan Bennett and Barbara Bennett. All three girls attended the Chapin School in New York.
caption: Richard Bennett in 1918 with his three daughters (from left), Constance, Joan and Barbara
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