Joan Bennett
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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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joan Bennett, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Credits
Suspiria (1977)
as Madame Blanc
Scarlet Street (1945)
as Katherine 'Kitty' March
Father of the Bride (1950)
as Ellie Banks
The Woman in the Window (1944)
as Alice Reed
We're No Angels (1955)
as Amelie Ducotel
Little Women (1933)
as Amy
Hollow Triumph (1948)
as Evelyn Hahn
Secret Beyond the Door (1947)
as Celia Lamphere
Father's Little Dividend (1951)
as Ellie Banks
Man Hunt (1941)
as Jerry Stokes
Hollywood Party (1937)
as Herself
Wild Girl (1932)
as Salomy Jane
Girl Trouble (1942)
as June Delaney
The Reckless Moment (1949)
as Lucia Harper
There's Always Tomorrow (1956)
as Marion Groves
House of Dark Shadows (1970)
as Elizabeth Stoddard Collins
Moby Dick (1930)
as Faith
The Macomber Affair (1947)
as Margaret Macomber
The Man in the Iron Mask (1939)
as Princess Maria Theresa
Green Hell (1940)
as Stephanie Richardson
The Woman on the Beach (1947)
as Peggy Butler
Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938 (1937)
as Wendy Van Klettering
Careless Lady (1932)
as Sally Brown
Disraeli (1929)
as Lady Clarissa Pevensey
Twin Beds (1942)
as Julie Abbott
Two in a Crowd (1936)
as Julia Wayne
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo (1935)
as Helen Berkeley
Highway Dragnet (1954)
as Mrs. Cummings
Gidget Gets Married (1972)
as Claire Ramsey
The Son of Monte Cristo (1940)
as Grand Duchess Zona of Lichtenburg
Wedding Present (1936)
as Monica 'Rusty' Fleming
Suddenly, Love (1978)
as Mrs. Graham
I Met My Love Again (1938)
as Julie Weir
The House Across the Bay (1940)
as Brenda Bentley
Casting Shadows (1987)
as Self – Elizabeth Collins Stoddard
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind (1988)
as Self (archive footage)
She Knew All the Answers (1941)
as Gloria Winters
This House Possessed (1981)
as Rag Lady
Margin for Error (1943)
as Sophia Baumer
Power (1928)
as A Dame
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life (1987)
as Self (archive footage)
Me and My Gal (1932)
as Helen Riley
Big Brown Eyes (1936)
as Eve Fallon
The Housekeeper's Daughter (1939)
as Hilda
Confirm or Deny (1941)
as Jennifer Carson
The Eyes of Charles Sand (1972)
as Alexandria Sand
The Wife Takes a Flyer (1942)
as Anita Woverman
Mississippi (1935)
as Lucy
Desire in the Dust (1960)
as Mrs. Marquand
She Couldn't Take It (1935)
as Carol Van Dyke
Trade Winds (1938)
as Kay Kerrigan
The Man I Married (1940)
as Carol Hoffman
Divorce Wars: A Love Story (1982)
as Adele Burgess
The Divine Lady (1928)
as Extra (uncredited)
Bulldog Drummond (1929)
as Phyllis
The Eternal City (1923)
as Page (uncredited)
The Valley of Decision (1916)
as Unborn soul
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1) (1936)
as Self
The Texans (1938)
as Ivy Preston
Puttin' on the Ritz (1930)
as Dolores Fenton
Private Worlds (1935)
as Sally MacGregor
She Wanted a Millionaire (1932)
as Jane Miller
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn (1986)
as Self
Colonel Effingham's Raid (1946)
as Ella Sue Dozier
Screen Actors (1950)
as Self (uncredited)
Wild Geese Calling (1941)
as Sally Murdock
Hush Money (1931)
as Joan Gordon
Maybe It's Love (1930)
as Nan
Two for Tonight (1935)
as Bobbie Lockwood
The Man Who Reclaimed His Head (1934)
as Adele Verin
Scotland Yard (1930)
as Xandra, Lady Lasher
Nob Hill (1945)
as Harriet Carruthers
The Pursuit of Happiness (1934)
as Prudence Kirkland
Navy Wife (1956)
as Peg Blain
Doctors' Wives (1931)
as Nina Wyndram Penning
Dark Shadows: The Vampire Curse (2009)
as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (archive footage)
Suspiria 25th Anniversary (2001)
as Self
The Trial of Vivienne Ware (1932)
as Vivienne Ware
13 Hours by Air (1936)
as Felice Rollins
Artists and Models Abroad (1938)
as Patricia Harper
Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6 (1942)
as Herself
The Guy Who Came Back (1951)
as Kathy Joplin
Many a Slip (1931)
as Pat Coster
The Fashion Side of Hollywood (1935)
as Self
Week Ends Only (1932)
as Venetia Carr
Dark Shadows: The Haunting of Collinwood (2009)
as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (archive footage)
Show Folks (1928)
as Night Club Patron (uncredited)
Arizona to Broadway (1933)
as Lynn Martin
The Mississippi Gambler (1929)
as Lucy Blackburn
For Heaven's Sake (1950)
as Lydia Bolton
Hollywood on Parade No. A-12 (1933)
as Self
Crazy That Way (1930)
as Ann Jordan
Three Live Ghosts (1929)
as Rose Gordon