Joan Bennett
Biography
Joan Geraldine Bennett (February 27, 1910 – December 7, 1990) was an American stage, film and television actress. Besides acting on the stage, Bennett appeared in more than 70 motion pictures from the era of silent movies well into the sound era. She is possibly best-remembered for her film noir femme fatale roles in director Fritz Lang's movies such as The Woman in the Window (1944) and Scarlet Street (1945). Bennett had three distinct phases to her long and successful career, first as a winsome blonde ingenue, then as a sensuous brunette femme fatale (with looks that movie magazines often compared to those of Hedy Lamarr), and finally as a warmhearted wife/mother figure. In 1951, Bennett's screen career was marred by scandal after her third husband, film producer Walter Wanger, shot and injured her agent Jennings Lang. Wanger suspected that Lang and Bennett were having an affair, a charge which she adamantly denied. In the 1960s, she achieved success for her portrayal of Elizabeth Collins Stoddard on TV's Dark Shadows, for which she received an Emmy nomination. For her final movie role, as Madame Blanc in Suspiria (1977), she received a Saturn Award nomination. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joan Bennett, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Celia Lamphere
Secret Beyond the Door
Mrs. Graham
Suddenly, Love
Ellie Banks
Father of the Bride
Amelie Ducotel
We're No Angels
Ellie Banks
Father's Little Dividend
Jerry Stokes
Man Hunt
Evelyn Hahn
Hollow Triumph
Lucia Harper
The Reckless Moment
Margaret Macomber
The Macomber Affair
Sophia Baumer
Margin for Error
Peggy Butler
The Woman on the Beach
Marion Groves
There's Always Tomorrow
Princess Maria Theresa
The Man in the Iron Mask
Brenda Bentley
The House Across the Bay
Mrs. Cummings
Highway Dragnet
Katherine 'Kitty' March
Scarlet Street
Alice Reed
The Woman in the Window
Amy
Little Women
Grand Duchess Zona of Lichtenburg
The Son of Monte Cristo
Phyllis
Bulldog Drummond
Monica 'Rusty' Fleming
Wedding Present
Eve Fallon
Big Brown Eyes
Elizabeth Stoddard Collins
House of Dark Shadows
Lady Clarissa Pevensey
Disraeli
Helen Riley
Me and My Gal
Claire Ramsey
Gidget Gets Married
Jennifer Carson
Confirm or Deny
Dolores Fenton
Puttin' on the Ritz
Lydia Bolton
For Heaven's Sake
Sally MacGregor
Private Worlds
Ivy Preston
The Texans
Wendy Van Klettering
Vogues of 1938
Lucy
Mississippi
Adele Verin
The Man Who Reclaimed His Head
Nan
Maybe It's Love
Salomy Jane
Wild Girl
Stephanie Richardson
Green Hell
Prudence Kirkland
The Pursuit of Happiness
Helen Berkeley
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
Lynn Martin
Arizona to Broadway
Kay Kerrigan
Trade Winds
Faith
Moby Dick
Carol Hoffman
The Man I Married
Julie Weir
I Met My Love Again
Hilda
The Housekeeper's Daughter
Rose Gordon
Three Live Ghosts
Bobbie Lockwood
Two for Tonight
Herself
Hollywood Party
Harriet Carruthers
Nob Hill
Patricia Harper
Artists and Models Abroad
Felice Rollins
13 Hours by Air
Carol Van Dyke
She Couldn't Take It
Xandra, Lady Lasher
Scotland Yard
Vivienne Ware
The Trial of Vivienne Ware
Jane Miller
She Wanted a Millionaire
'Gone with the Wind' screen test (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
Rag Lady
This House Possessed
Kathy Joplin
The Guy Who Came Back
Anita Woverman
The Wife Takes a Flyer
Page (uncredited)
The Eternal City
Julia Wayne
Two in a Crowd
Extra (uncredited)
The Divine Lady
Sally Murdock
Wild Geese Calling
Nina Wyndram Penning
Doctors' Wives
Sally Brown
Careless Lady
June Delaney
Girl Trouble
Adele Burgess
Divorce Wars: A Love Story
Mrs. Marquand
Desire in the Dust
Gloria Winters
She Knew All the Answers
Venetia Carr
Week Ends Only
Peg Blain
Navy Wife
Self
The Fashion Side of Hollywood
Lucy Blackburn
The Mississippi Gambler
Ella Sue Dozier
Colonel Effingham's Raid
Julie Abbott
Twin Beds
Night Club Patron (uncredited)
Show Folks
Herself
Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6
Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (archive footage)
Dark Shadows: The Vampire Curse
Joan Gordon
Hush Money
Self
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
Elizabeth Collins Stoddard
Dark Shadows: The Haunting of Collinwood
Self (archive footage)
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
A Dame
Power
Self
Suspiria 25th Anniversary
Self
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
Self (archive footage)
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Unborn soul
The Valley of Decision
Madame Blanc
Suspiria
Alexandria Sand
The Eyes of Charles Sand
Self (uncredited)
Screen Actors
Pat Coster
Many a Slip
Ann Jordan
Crazy That Way
Self – Elizabeth Collins Stoddard
Casting Shadows
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
93
Gender
Female
Birthday
1910-02-27
Place of Birth
Palisades, New Jersey, USA
Also Known As
Joan Geraldine Bennett