Joan Bennett
Acting
Born 1910-02-27
Died 1990-12-07
Palisades, New Jersey, USA
105 credits
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1
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Won 1 star on Hollywood Walk of Fame Award
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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.
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Filmography
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Acting
59 credits
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Mike Douglas Show
Dark Shadows
What's My Line?
Climax!
Burke's Law
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Suspiria
DuPont Show of the Month
Scarlet Street
We're No Angels
Father of the Bride
Hollow Triumph
Little Women
The Woman in the Window
Man Hunt
Father's Little Dividend
Secret Beyond the Door
The Woman on the Beach
General Electric Theater
House of Dark Shadows
Hollywood Party
The Man in the Iron Mask
The Reckless Moment
There's Always Tomorrow
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Girl Trouble
Moby Dick
Wild Girl
The Son of Monte Cristo
This House Possessed
Careless Lady
Green Hell
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Big Brown Eyes
Wedding Present
The Macomber Affair
Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938
The House Across the Bay
Power
I Met My Love Again
Disraeli
Colonel Effingham's Raid
Mississippi
The Texans
Casting Shadows
Desire in the Dust
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
Nob Hill
She Knew All the Answers
Armadillo
Wild Geese Calling
She Couldn't Take It
Two for Tonight
Two in a Crowd
Gidget Gets Married
Dark Shadows: The Vampire Curse
Me and My Gal
Trade Winds
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