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