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Acting
Birthday:
February 27, 1910
Place of Birth:
Palisades, New Jersey, USA
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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.
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Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Dark Shadows: The Vampire Curse | Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (archive footage) |
| 2009 | Dark Shadows: The Haunting of Collinwood | Elizabeth Collins Stoddard |
| 2001 | Suspiria 25th Anniversary | Self |
| 1988 | The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind | Self (archive footage) |
| 1988 | James Stewart: A Wonderful Life | Self (archive footage) |
| 1987 | Casting Shadows | Self – Elizabeth Collins Stoddard |
| 1986 | The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn | Self |
| 1982 | Divorce Wars: A Love Story | Adele Burgess |
| 1981 | This House Possessed | Rag Lady |
| 1978 | Suddenly, Love | Mrs. Graham |
| 1977 | Suspiria | Madame Blanc |
| 1972 | Gidget Gets Married | Claire Ramsey |
| 1972 | The Eyes of Charles Sand | Alexandria Sand |
| 1970 | House of Dark Shadows | Elizabeth Stoddard Collins |
| 1961 | Hollywood: The Selznick Years | 'Gone with the Wind' screen test (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 1960 | Desire in the Dust | Mrs. Marquand |
| 1956 | There's Always Tomorrow | Marion Groves |
| 1956 | Navy Wife | Peg Blain |
| 1955 | We're No Angels | Amelie Ducotel |
| 1954 | Highway Dragnet | Mrs. Cummings |
| 1951 | Father's Little Dividend | Ellie Banks |
| 1951 | The Guy Who Came Back | Kathy Joplin |
| 1950 | Father of the Bride | Ellie Banks |
| 1950 | For Heaven's Sake | Lydia Bolton |
| 1950 | Screen Actors | Self (uncredited) |
| 1949 | The Reckless Moment | Lucia Harper |
| 1948 | Hollow Triumph | Evelyn Hahn |
| 1947 | Secret Beyond the Door | Celia Lamphere |
| 1947 | The Macomber Affair | Margaret Macomber |
| 1947 | The Woman on the Beach | Peggy Butler |
| 1946 | Colonel Effingham's Raid | Ella Sue Dozier |
| 1945 | Scarlet Street | Katherine 'Kitty' March |
| 1945 | Nob Hill | Harriet Carruthers |
| 1944 | The Woman in the Window | Alice Reed |
| 1943 | Margin for Error | Sophia Baumer |
| 1942 | The Wife Takes a Flyer | Anita Woverman |
| 1942 | Girl Trouble | June Delaney |
| 1942 | Twin Beds | Julie Abbott |
| 1942 | Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6 | Herself |
| 1941 | Man Hunt | Jerry Stokes |
| 1941 | Confirm or Deny | Jennifer Carson |
| 1941 | Wild Geese Calling | Sally Murdock |
| 1941 | She Knew All the Answers | Gloria Winters |
| 1940 | The House Across the Bay | Brenda Bentley |
| 1940 | The Son of Monte Cristo | Grand Duchess Zona of Lichtenburg |
| 1940 | Green Hell | Stephanie Richardson |
| 1940 | The Man I Married | Carol Hoffman |
| 1939 | The Man in the Iron Mask | Princess Maria Theresa |
| 1939 | The Housekeeper's Daughter | Hilda |
| 1938 | The Texans | Ivy Preston |
| 1938 | Trade Winds | Kay Kerrigan |
| 1938 | I Met My Love Again | Julie Weir |
| 1938 | Artists and Models Abroad | Patricia Harper |
| 1937 | Vogues of 1938 | Wendy Van Klettering |
| 1937 | Hollywood Party | Herself |
| 1936 | Big Brown Eyes | Eve Fallon |
| 1936 | Wedding Present | Monica 'Rusty' Fleming |
| 1936 | 13 Hours by Air | Felice Rollins |
| 1936 | Two in a Crowd | Julia Wayne |
| 1936 | Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1) | Self |
| 1935 | Private Worlds | Sally MacGregor |
| 1935 | Mississippi | Lucy |
| 1935 | The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo | Helen Berkeley |
| 1935 | Two for Tonight | Bobbie Lockwood |
| 1935 | She Couldn't Take It | Carol Van Dyke |
| 1935 | The Fashion Side of Hollywood | Self |
| 1934 | The Man Who Reclaimed His Head | Adele Verin |
| 1934 | The Pursuit of Happiness | Prudence Kirkland |
| 1933 | Little Women | Amy |
| 1933 | Arizona to Broadway | Lynn Martin |
| 1932 | Me and My Gal | Helen Riley |
| 1932 | Wild Girl | Salomy Jane |
| 1932 | The Trial of Vivienne Ware | Vivienne Ware |
| 1932 | She Wanted a Millionaire | Jane Miller |
| 1932 | Careless Lady | Sally Brown |
| 1932 | Week Ends Only | Venetia Carr |
| 1931 | Doctors' Wives | Nina Wyndram Penning |
| 1931 | Hush Money | Joan Gordon |
| 1931 | Many a Slip | Pat Coster |
| 1930 | Puttin' on the Ritz | Dolores Fenton |
| 1930 | Maybe It's Love | Nan |
| 1930 | Moby Dick | Faith |
| 1930 | Scotland Yard | Xandra, Lady Lasher |
| 1930 | Crazy That Way | Ann Jordan |
| 1929 | Bulldog Drummond | Phyllis |
| 1929 | Disraeli | Lady Clarissa Pevensey |
| 1929 | Three Live Ghosts | Rose Gordon |
| 1929 | The Mississippi Gambler | Lucy Blackburn |
| 1928 | The Divine Lady | Extra (uncredited) |
| 1928 | Show Folks | Night Club Patron (uncredited) |
| 1928 | Power | A Dame |
| 1923 | The Eternal City | Page (uncredited) |
| 1916 | The Valley of Decision | Unborn soul |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Armadillo | Father |
| 1966 | Dark Shadows | Elizabeth Collins Stoddard / Naomi Collins |
| 1963 | Burke's Law | Denise Mitchell |
| 1962 | The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | Self |
| 1961 | The Mike Douglas Show | Self |
| 1959 | Too Young to Go Steady | Mary Blake |
| 1957 | DuPont Show of the Month | Grace Graves |
| 1954 | Climax! | Honora |
| 1953 | General Electric Theater | Bettina Blane |
| 1950 | The Colgate Comedy Hour | Self |
| 1950 | Your Show of Shows | |
| 1950 | What's My Line? | Self |