Joan Bennett
Acting
Born: February 27, 1910 · Palisades, New Jersey, USA
Died: December 7, 1990 (aged 80)
Highest Rated
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
Suspiria
1977
Scarlet Street
1945
The Woman in the Window
1944
Father of the Bride
1950
We're No Angels
1955
Secret Beyond the Door
1947
Little Women
1933
The Reckless Moment
1949
Man Hunt
1941
Dark Shadows
1966
House of Dark Shadows
1970
There's Always Tomorrow
1956
Photos (15)
Movies (82)
Suspiria
Madame Blanc
The Woman in the Window
Alice Reed
Father's Little Dividend
Ellie Banks
Little Women
Amy
The Reckless Moment
Lucia Harper
There's Always Tomorrow
Marion Groves
Scarlet Street
Katherine 'Kitty' March
Father of the Bride
Ellie Banks
We're No Angels
Amelie Ducotel
Big Brown Eyes
Eve Fallon
Hollow Triumph
Evelyn Hahn
Secret Beyond the Door
Celia Lamphere
The Woman on the Beach
Peggy Butler
The Macomber Affair
Margaret Macomber
The Son of Monte Cristo
Grand Duchess Zona of Lichtenburg
I Met My Love Again
Julie Weir
Green Hell
Stephanie Richardson
She Couldn't Take It
Carol Van Dyke
The Man in the Iron Mask
Princess Maria Theresa
Highway Dragnet
Mrs. Cummings
House of Dark Shadows
Elizabeth Stoddard Collins
The House Across the Bay
Brenda Bentley
Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938
Wendy Van Klettering
The Housekeeper's Daughter
Hilda
Wild Girl
Salomy Jane
The Trial of Vivienne Ware
Vivienne Ware
13 Hours by Air
Felice Rollins
Two in a Crowd
Julia Wayne
The Texans
Ivy Preston
Bulldog Drummond
Phyllis
Man Hunt
Jerry Stokes
The Guy Who Came Back
Kathy Joplin
The Man I Married
Carol Hoffman
Wild Geese Calling
Sally Murdock
Girl Trouble
June Delaney
Puttin' on the Ritz
Dolores Fenton
Desire in the Dust
Mrs. Marquand
Dark Shadows: The Haunting of Collinwood
Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (archive footage)
Gidget Gets Married
Claire Ramsey
Disraeli
Lady Clarissa Pevensey
Trade Winds
Kay Kerrigan
Me and My Gal
Helen Riley
This House Possessed
Rag Lady
The Eyes of Charles Sand
Alexandria Sand
Power
A Dame
Suddenly, Love
Mrs. Graham
The Man Who Reclaimed His Head
Adele Verin
Margin for Error
Sophia Baumer
She Knew All the Answers
Gloria Winters
Careless Lady
Sally Brown
Confirm or Deny
Jennifer Carson
Divorce Wars: A Love Story
Adele Burgess
Mississippi
Lucy
Moby Dick
Faith
Two for Tonight
Bobbie Lockwood
She Wanted a Millionaire
Jane Miller
The Valley of Decision
Unborn soul
Private Worlds
Sally MacGregor
The Divine Lady
Extra (uncredited)
Nob Hill
Harriet Carruthers
Dark Shadows: The Vampire Curse
Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (archive footage)
Twin Beds
Julie Abbott
Artists and Models Abroad
Patricia Harper
The Pursuit of Happiness
Prudence Kirkland
The Wife Takes a Flyer
Anita Woverman
Three Live Ghosts
Rose Gordon
Colonel Effingham's Raid
Ella Sue Dozier
Wedding Present
Monica 'Rusty' Fleming
Show Folks
Night Club Patron (uncredited)
For Heaven's Sake
Lydia Bolton
Scotland Yard
Xandra, Lady Lasher
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
Helen Berkeley
Hush Money
Joan Gordon
Doctors' Wives
Nina Wyndram Penning
Maybe It's Love
Nan
Crazy That Way
Ann Jordan
Arizona to Broadway
Lynn Martin
Many a Slip
Pat Coster
Navy Wife
Peg Blain
Week Ends Only
Venetia Carr
The Eternal City
Page (uncredited)
The Mississippi Gambler
Lucy Blackburn
TV Shows (7)
Dark Shadows
Elizabeth Collins Stoddard / Naomi Collins · 1225 eps
Climax!
Honora · 1 eps
Burke's Law
Denise Mitchell · 1 eps
Your Show of Shows
1 eps
DuPont Show of the Month
Grace Graves · 1 eps
General Electric Theater
Bettina Blane · 1 eps
Armadillo
Father · 1 eps
Self / Appearances (14)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self · 2 eps
The Mike Douglas Show
Self · 1 eps
What's My Line?
Self · 1 eps
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Self · 1 eps
Hollywood on Parade No. A-12
Self
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Self (archive footage)
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
Self
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Self (archive footage)
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
Self
Hollywood Party
Herself
Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6
Self
Casting Shadows
Self – Elizabeth Collins Stoddard
The Fashion Side of Hollywood
Self - Lucy (archive footage)
Suspiria 25th Anniversary
Self