Education
Born in New York City, Constance Binney was educated at Westover School, a private college preparatory boarding school for girls in Middlebury, Connecticut and in Paris, France.
Born in New York City, Constance Binney was educated at Westover School, a private college preparatory boarding school for girls in Middlebury, Connecticut and in Paris, France.
In 1919, she starred opposite John Barrymore in The Test of Honor. Although Constance Binney left the film business in 1923, her contribution to the industry was recognized with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6301 Hollywood Boulevard Unfortunately, modern assessment of her career is limited as most of her films are now lost, with only two of her films surviving in a complete form, Erstwhile Susan and The Case of Becky, along with a single reel of First Love.
Binney married Charles Edward Cotting, Junior, an investment banker in Boston in 1926.
Their announcement made the first page on the Boston Globe on January 24,1926. They divorced in 1932.
They lived at 410 Beacon Street. Constance Binney last performed on Broadway in 1924.
She appeared on stage in London and in 1941, during the Second World War, married the British war hero, Geoffrey Leonard Cheshire who was twenty-one years her junior.
Constance Binney died in 1989 in Whitestone, Queens, New York City, aged 93.
