Wilda Bennett

Bennett's personal life involved multiple legal troubles that brought additional, ongoing, national press attention.^[8] In 1925, she was sued for $100,000 by a woman named Katherine Frey, who believed that Bennett had been her husband Charles Frey's lover. Katherine Frey won a judgment of $25,000 in the case.^[9] While the lawsuit was still pending, Charles Frey was driving Bennett's car when it struck a young woman, who was killed. Bennett was a passenger in the car.^[10] In 1927, she was sued for the care expenses of a horse she once owned.^[11] In 1928, she was sued for damages by a landlord who said Bennett destroyed furniture and removed other items from a rented apartment. Bennett lost that case, too, and had to pay $400 to the landlord.^[12] In 1930, Bennett sued Anthony J. Wettach after another car accident; she ended up marrying him instead.^[13] In 1932, she was arrested on charges of being drunk and disorderly.^[14]

Bennett was married four times. Her husbands were, in order, actor-producer Robert Schable (divorced in 1920), Argentine dancer Abraham "Peppy" de Albrew (married 1926, separated in 1927),^[15][16] Anthony J. Wettach (married 1930, divorced 1933),^[17] and mining engineer Munro Whitmore (died 1960).

Bennett died on December 20, 1967, in Winnemucca, Nevada.^[18][19]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Wilda Bennett.

• Wilda Bennett at IMDb
• Wilda Bennett's listing at IBDB
• Wilda Bennett's listing at AllMusic
• An undated photograph of Wilda Bennett in the Billy Rose Theatre Collection Photograph File, New York Public Library Digital Collections
• A 1926 photograph of Wilda Bennett in the J. Willis Sayre Collection of Theatrical Photographs, University of Washington Libraries, Digital Collections