Dorothy Bennett
{{short description|American screenwriter}}
{{for|the American anthropologist and astronomer|Dorothy A. Bennett}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Dorothy Bennett
| birth_name =
| birth_date = November 25, 1907
| birth_place = DeKalb, Indiana, USA
| death_date = August 29, 1988 (aged 80)
| death_place = San Diego, California, USA
| occupation = Screenwriter
| spouse = Link Hannah
}}
Dorothy Bennett (sometimes credited as Dorothy Hannah) was an American screenwriter, novelist, and playwright who worked in Hollywood from the 1930s through the 1940s.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/100747794/?terms=%22dorothy%2Bbennett%22%2Bscenario|title=Skolsky's Hollywood: Servant Problems|last=Skolsky|first=Sidney|date=May 19, 1943|work=The Cincinnati Enquirer}}
Biography
Bennett worked in advertising before finding a success as a playwright on Broadway. After Hollywood produced several big-screen adaptations of her plays, she moved to Los Angeles and took on work at MGM as a screenwriter. Bennett was married to Link Hannah, who she met while working in advertising. The pair, who occasionally wrote plays together, had three children.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/380723468/?terms=%22dorothy%2Bbennett%22%2Bscenarist|title=Eddie Cantor Rolls His Own|work=The Los Angeles Times}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IzZhAAAAIAAJ&q=%22dorothy+bennett%22+%22link+hannah%22&pg=PA127|title=Catalog of Copyright Entries. Part 1. [C] Group 3. Dramatic Composition and Motion Pictures. New Series|last=Office|first=Library of Congress Copyright|date=1941|language=en}}
Selected filmography
- The Brasher Doubloon (1947)
- Do You Love Me (1946)
- Patrick the Great (1945)
- Sensations of 1945 (1944)
- Show Business (1944)
- All by Myself (1943)
- Mister Big (1943)
- Follow the Band (1943)
- It Comes Up Love (1943)
- When Johnny Comes Marching Home (1942)
- Always in My Heart (1942)
- Daughters Courageous (1939)
- Life Begins with Love (1937)
- Wives Never Know (1936){{Cite web|url=https://directories.wga.org/member/339ff216-8302-4e22-91ca-763206506a28|title=Dorothy Bennett - WGA Directory|website=directories.wga.org|access-date=2019-04-30}}
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Category:People from DeKalb County, Indiana
Category:Novelists from Indiana
Category:20th-century American novelists
Category:20th-century American dramatists and playwrights
Category:20th-century American women writers
Category:Screenwriters from Indiana
Category:American women novelists
Category:American women dramatists and playwrights