His aunts included Hollywood film stars Constance and Joan Bennett, from whom he was estranged, and his maternal grandfather was the celebrated matinée idol Richard Bennett.

It was made into a film, Topper, for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer by Hal Roach in 1937 starring Roland Young and Billie Burke ; the cast included Cary Grant as George Kerby and Constance Bennett as Marion Kerby.

Constance Bennett was willing to play the role if she could produce the film herself ; however, Columbia Pictures would not allow this.

However, when Darryl F. Zanuck merged his fledgling studio, 20th Century Pictures, with Fox Film Corporation to form Twentieth Century Fox, her status became precarious and even tertiary to that of actresses Loretta Young and Shirley Temple, although she always received top billing in every movie that she made during the 1930s, including Ladies in Love ( 1937 ) with Constance Bennett, Young, and Tyrone Power.

" In a 1930s interview Constance Bennett replied to questions about her own demands, with the comment that Colbert's idiosyncrasies were far more excessive, but Bennett acknowledged that it was an integral part of Colbert's success.

The Saturday Evening Post wrote, " she is not only beautiful, but she bubbles with charm ", and compared her to Constance Bennett and Olive Borden.

The studio's original choice to play " Irene ," the part eventually played by Carole Lombard, was Constance Bennett, and Miriam Hopkins was also considered, but the director, Gregory LaCava, would only agree to Bennett if Universal borrowed William Powell from MGM.

* Constance Bennett as Duchess of Florence

* Constance Bennett ( 1904 – 1965 ), American actress

In 1937 Carmichael appeared in the movie Topper, serenading Cary Grant and Constance Bennett with his song " Old Man Moon ".

At RKO, Harding, along with Helen Twelvetrees and Constance Bennett, comprised a trio who specialized in the " women's pictures " genre.

* Tail Spin ( 1939 ) with Alice Faye, Constance Bennett, Charles Farrell, and Jane Wyman

Other reports say that Cohn also approached Ina Claire, Tallulah Bankhead, Ruth Chatterton, Constance Bennett, Ann Harding, Kay Francis and Joan Crawford.

Morton Downey was the father of the right-wing television personality Morton Downey, Jr., by his first wife, actress Barbara Bennett ( 1906 – 1958 ), the sister of actresses Constance and Joan Bennett, and with whom he ultimately had five children, four sons and a daughter: Michael, Sean ( Morton Downey, Jr ), Lorelle, Anthony and Kevin.

After the divorce Thelma Morgan Converse was rumored to be engaged to the American actor Richard Bennett, the matinée-idol father of Hollywood film stars Constance Bennett, Joan Bennett, and Barbara Bennett ( the third was the mother of talk-show host Morton Downey, Jr .).

* Constance Bennett

In 1937 she appeared in the first of the Topper films, about a man haunted by two socialite ghosts ( played by Cary Grant and Constance Bennett ), in which she played the tremulous and daffy Clara Topper.

The faction grew in power, especially after Inês de Castro, daughter of an important nobleman and maid of the Crown Princess Constance, became the lover of her lady's husband: Peter, the heir of Portugal.

The Dowager Queen Constance was anxious for her son's life and she escaped with King Ladislaus to the court of Leopold VI, Duke of Austria.

By means of her mother, Catherine had a stronger legitimate claim to the English throne than King Henry VII himself through the first two wives of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster: Blanche of Lancaster and the Spanish Infanta Constance of Castile.

Constance Baker Motley ( 1921 – 2005 ), who as a young lawyer represented Martin Luther King, Jr., has Nevisian heritage and owned a home in Brown Hill, Nevis, near her ancestral home.

Bismarck proposed that Prussia should exploit Austria's weakness to move her frontiers " as far south as Lake Constance " on the Swiss border ; instead Prussia mobilised troops in the Rhineland to deter further French advances into Venetia.

Henry VI ’ s widow Constance of Sicily ruled over Sicily for her young son before he reached the age of majority.

** Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, becomes the second woman elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom and the first to take her seat ( the first elected was Constance Markievicz ).

Melisende's connections, especially to her sister Hodierna, and to her niece Constance of Antioch, meant that she had direct influence in northern Syria, a priceless connection since Baldwin had himself broken the treaty with Damascus in 1147.

After his wife Anna died in 1598, he married her sister Constance of Austria in 1605.

He had entrusted Constance to the citizens and they had betrayed him and handed her over to King Tancred.

Constance of Sicily was in her own right queen of Sicily and she established herself as regent.

Queen Constance died first in 18 November 1313, followed by Infante John and Infante Peter during a military campaign against Granada in 1319, which left Dowager Queen María as the only regent until her death in 1 July 1321.

# Constance, married Hugh I of Champagne before 1097 and then, after her divorce, to Bohemund I of Antioch in 1106

After this was refused, he went back to Constance and fathered several children by her.

They encounter again at a wedding in her hometown of Constance and marry.

However these things may be, he loves you as tenderly as ever ; nothing, to the end of time, will ever detach him from you, & he remembers those Eleventh St. matutinal intimes hours, those telephonic matinées, as the most romantic of his life ... His long friendship with American novelist Constance Fenimore Woolson, in whose house he lived for a number of weeks in Italy in 1887, and his shock and grief over her suicide in 1894, are discussed in detail in Leon Edel's biography and play a central role in a study by Lyndall Gordon.

The following autumn and winter, Droste and Schücking stayed at her brother-in-law's castle at Meersburg on Lake Constance, where Schücking had been given the task of cataloguing Laßberg's book collection.

Constance was a suffragette, feminist, and advocate of free love who practised her teachings via a string of extramarital affairs, most notably with Henry Sara, a communist who in many ways became Taylor's surrogate father.

The Coming Back ( 1933 ), another novel which portrays her, was written by Constance Malleson, one of Ottoline's many rivals for the affection of Bertrand Russell.

Raymond's wife, Constance, was Baldwin's cousin through his mother and heiress of Antioch by right of her father.

Early on in his reign, a thorn in Peter's side had been James III of Majorca, his brother-in-law, the husband of his sister Constance.

The expedition was forced to withdraw when a dispute arose between Thierry, Count of Flanders and Raynald of Châtillon, the new husband of Constance of Antioch, both of whom wanted Shaizar for themselves.

In the east, he entered the service of Constance of Antioch, whose first husband had died in 1149.

His coup was backed by the chancellor Matthew d ' Ajello and the official class, while the rival claims of Roger II's daughter Constance and her husband, Henry VI, King of the Romans, were supported by most of the nobles.

Constance accompanied her husband at the head of a substantial imperial army that descended into the Regno.

Ferdinand's main ally in these wars was John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, the husband of Constance of Castile, Duchess of Lancaster, who was Peter I's daughter.

The story concerns a young married woman, Constance ( Lady Chatterley ), whose upper-class husband, Clifford Chatterley, has been paralyzed due to a war injury.

Constance had four other children, Edna, Douglas, Harry and Stanislaus ( Stan ) with her husband Alexander Soares.

In 1065, Constance married her first husband, Hughes II, Count of Chalon.

Constance died in 1093 leaving her fourteen year old daughter and her husband a widower.

After her death, the corpse of Constance was taken to the town of Sahagún and was buried in the Monastery of St. Facundo and Primitivo, where her husband, King Alfonso VI would be buried along with all his wives.

Constance then accompanied her husband at the head of a substantial imperial army to forcefully take the throne from Tancred.

The following year Constance had the three-year-old Frederick crowned King of Sicily, and in his name dissolved the ties her late husband had created between the government of Sicily and of the Empire.

Constance doesn't succeed in sending her cowardly husband, who has been manipulated by Richelieu, to London, but d ' Artagnan and his friends decide to help.

The original attic sequence is now replaced with the new Disneyland attic scene including the five changing husband portraits and featuring the new Constance.

Later in 1198 at Angers, Constance took Guy of Thouars as her ' second ' husband.

Throughout these years, Constance advised her son towards a French alliance, pursuing the policy of her late husband Geoffrey II.

In 1201, at age 40, Constance bore her third husband, Guy of Thouars twin daughters.

Nina attends a party given by her stepsister Constance ( Allison Janney ) and her husband, Sidney ( Alan Alda ).

Loos and Emerson turned down another picture with Davies, preferring to write for their old friend Constance Talmadge, whose brother-in-law Joseph Schenck ( husband of Norma Talmadge ) was an independent producer.

Later in 1198 at Angers, Constance took Guy of Thouars as her next husband.

Throughout these years, Constance advised her son towards a French alliance, pursuing the policy of her late husband Geoffrey II.

Constance bore her third husband twin daughters ; Alix of Thouars, who married Peter de Dreux, first Breton ruler of the House of Dreux ; and Katherine of Thouars ( 1201 – c. 1240 ) who married Andre III of Brittany, Sire of Vitre.