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