[7] Films featuring Wilda Bennett included A Good Little Devil (1914, lost), Love, Honor and Obey (1920), Bullets or Ballots (1936), Dark Victory (1939), The Women (1939), What a Life (1939), Ninotchka (1939), Those Were the Days!

Bennett's personal life involved multiple legal troubles that brought additional, ongoing, national press attention.

[9] While the lawsuit was still pending, Charles Frey was driving Bennett's car when it struck a young woman, who was killed.

[11] In 1928, she was sued for damages by a landlord who said Bennett destroyed furniture and removed other items from a rented apartment.

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).