Joan Bennett
Acting
- Born:
- 1910-02-27
- Died:
- 1990-12-07
- Place of birth:
- Palisades, New Jersey, USA
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
Filmography
Dark Shadows: The Vampire Curse
Dark Shadows: The Haunting of Collinwood
Armadillo
Suspiria 25th Anniversary
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Casting Shadows
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
Divorce Wars: A Love Story
This House Possessed
Suddenly, Love
Suspiria
The Eyes of Charles Sand
Gidget Gets Married
House of Dark Shadows
Dark Shadows
Burke's Law
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Mike Douglas Show
Desire in the Dust
Too Young to Go Steady
The Thundering Wave
DuPont Show of the Month
Navy Wife
There's Always Tomorrow
We're No Angels
Climax!
Highway Dragnet
General Electric Theater
The Guy Who Came Back
Father's Little Dividend
For Heaven's Sake
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Father of the Bride
Screen Actors
Your Show of Shows
What's My Line?
The Reckless Moment
Hollow Triumph
Secret Beyond the Door
The Woman on the Beach
The Macomber Affair
Colonel Effingham's Raid
Scarlet Street
Nob Hill
The Woman in the Window
Margin for Error
Girl Trouble
Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6
Twin Beds
The Wife Takes a Flyer
Confirm or Deny
Wild Geese Calling
Man Hunt
She Knew All the Answers
The Son of Monte Cristo
The Man I Married
The House Across the Bay
Green Hell
The Housekeeper's Daughter
The Man in the Iron Mask
Trade Winds
Artists and Models Abroad
The Texans
I Met My Love Again
Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938
Hollywood Party
Wedding Present
Two in a Crowd
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
13 Hours by Air
Big Brown Eyes
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
The Fashion Side of Hollywood
She Couldn't Take It
Two for Tonight
Private Worlds
Mississippi
The Man Who Reclaimed His Head
The Pursuit of Happiness
Little Women
Arizona to Broadway
Hollywood on Parade No. A-12
Me and My Gal
Wild Girl
Week Ends Only
The Trial of Vivienne Ware
Careless Lady
She Wanted a Millionaire
Hush Money
Doctors' Wives
Many a Slip
Scotland Yard
Maybe It's Love
Moby Dick
Crazy That Way
Puttin' on the Ritz
The Mississippi Gambler
Disraeli
Three Live Ghosts
Bulldog Drummond
The Divine Lady
Show Folks
Power
The Eternal City
The Valley of Decision