Annette Bening

The couple has four children. For her contribution to the motion picture industry, she has been honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6548 Hollywood Blvd. On March 12, 1992, she married Beatty. On her passing in 1975, Evelyn Brent was interred in the San Fernando Mission Cemetery in Mission Hills, California. Bening met actor Warren Beatty on the set of the film Bugsy (1991) and the two started a secret romance. Her last husband was the actor Harry Fox for whom the foxtrot dance was named. They were still married when he died in 1959. She garnered an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for The Grifters (1990) and Best Actress in a Leading Role for American Beauty (1999). Evelyn Brent was married three times.

Her first major feature film role was in The Great Outdoors (1988). After performing in more than 120 films, she retired from acting in 1950 and worked for a number of years as an actor's agent. Her first film was Manhunt for Claude Dallas, a made-for-TV movie which came out in 1986. By the early part of the 1930s, she was busy working in secondary roles in a variety of films as well as touring with vaudeville shows. However, she endured a five-year struggle before breaking into film. Although the film, titled Interference, did not live up to expectations at the box office, Brent played major roles in several more features, most notably The Silver Horde in 1930. In 1985, she moved to New York where she won a Tony Award nomination for her debut performance in Coastal Disturbances. In 1928 she starred opposite William Powell in what was her own and Paramount Studios first talkie.

Bening then studied at San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater, and joined its acting company. Signed by Douglas Fairbanks Pictures Corporation, she went on to make more than two dozen silent films including three for the noted Austrian director, Josef von Sternberg. She completed her drama degree at San Francisco State University. There, her career received a major boost the following year when she was chosen as one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars. She finished high school in three years and attended San Diego Mesa College. After World War I, she went to London, England where she worked in film as well as on stage for a few years before going to Hollywood in 1922. In junior high, she played the lead in The Sound of Music. As Evelyn Brent, she continued to work in film, developing into a young woman whose sultry looks were much sought after, often as a femme fatale.

Bening's family moved to San Diego, California in 1965. Service poem, The Shooting of Dan McGrew. Annette Bening (born May 29, 1958 in Topeka, Kansas, USA) is an American actress. She began her film career working under her own name at a New Jersey film studio then made her major debut in the 1915 silent film production of the Robert W. Manhunt for Claude Dallas (1986) (TV). After moving to New York City, as a teenager her good looks brought modeling jobs that led to an opportunity to become involved in the still relatively new business of making motion pictures. The Great Outdoors (1988). Born Mary Elizabeth Riggs in Tampa, Florida and known as Betty, she was a child of ten when her mother passed away, leaving her father to raise her alone.

Postcards from the Edge (1990). Evelyn Brent, (October 20, 1899 - June 4, 1975), was an American film and stage actress. The Grifters (1990). Bugsy (1991). The American President (1995).

The Siege (1998). American Beauty (1999). Open Range (2003). Being Julia (2004).