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
We're No Angels (1955)
as Amelie Ducotel
Scarlet Street (1945)
as Katherine 'Kitty' March
Girl Trouble (1942)
as June Delaney
The Woman in the Window (1944)
as Alice Reed
Father's Little Dividend (1951)
as Ellie Banks
Hollow Triumph (1948)
as Evelyn Hahn
Moby Dick (1930)
as Faith
The Man in the Iron Mask (1939)
as Princess Maria Theresa
Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938 (1937)
as Wendy Van Klettering
Green Hell (1940)
as Stephanie Richardson
Little Women (1933)
as Amy
There's Always Tomorrow (1956)
as Marion Groves
Hollywood Party (1937)
as Herself
Two in a Crowd (1936)
as Julia Wayne
House of Dark Shadows (1970)
as Elizabeth Stoddard Collins
Secret Beyond the Door (1947)
as Celia Lamphere
Casting Shadows (1987)
as Self – Elizabeth Collins Stoddard
The House Across the Bay (1940)
as Brenda Bentley
Twin Beds (1942)
as Julie Abbott
Careless Lady (1932)
as Sally Brown
Wild Girl (1932)
as Salomy Jane
This House Possessed (1981)
as Rag Lady
Disraeli (1929)
as Lady Clarissa Pevensey
Gidget Gets Married (1972)
as Claire Ramsey
The Thundering Wave (1957)
as Vickie Maxwell
The Woman on the Beach (1947)
as Peggy Butler
She Knew All the Answers (1941)
as Gloria Winters
The Reckless Moment (1949)
as Lucia Harper
I Met My Love Again (1938)
as Julie Weir
She Wanted a Millionaire (1932)
as Jane Miller
Artists and Models Abroad (1938)
as Patricia Harper
The Macomber Affair (1947)
as Margaret Macomber
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life (1987)
as Self (archive footage)
Man Hunt (1941)
as Jerry Stokes
Power (1928)
as A Dame
Highway Dragnet (1954)
as Mrs. Cummings
Me and My Gal (1932)
as Helen Riley
Big Brown Eyes (1936)
as Eve Fallon
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind (1988)
as Self (archive footage)
For Heaven's Sake (1950)
as Lydia Bolton
13 Hours by Air (1936)
as Felice Rollins
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo (1935)
as Helen Berkeley
Week Ends Only (1932)
as Venetia Carr
Wild Geese Calling (1941)
as Sally Murdock
Maybe It's Love (1930)
as Nan
The Son of Monte Cristo (1940)
as Grand Duchess Zona of Lichtenburg
The Eyes of Charles Sand (1972)
as Alexandria Sand
Colonel Effingham's Raid (1946)
as Ella Sue Dozier
Mississippi (1935)
as Lucy
Divorce Wars: A Love Story (1982)
as Adele Burgess
The Man I Married (1940)
as Carol Hoffman
The Pursuit of Happiness (1934)
as Prudence Kirkland
The Wife Takes a Flyer (1942)
as Anita Woverman
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn (1986)
as Self
The Man Who Reclaimed His Head (1934)
as Adele Verin
She Couldn't Take It (1935)
as Carol Van Dyke
Wedding Present (1936)
as Monica 'Rusty' Fleming
Desire in the Dust (1960)
as Mrs. Marquand
Trade Winds (1938)
as Kay Kerrigan
Hollywood on Parade No. A-12 (1933)
as Self
The Fashion Side of Hollywood (1935)
as Self - Lucy (archive footage)
Confirm or Deny (1941)
as Jennifer Carson
Puttin' on the Ritz (1930)
as Dolores Fenton
The Housekeeper's Daughter (1939)
as Hilda
Margin for Error (1943)
as Sophia Baumer
The Valley of Decision (1916)
as Unborn soul
The Trial of Vivienne Ware (1932)
as Vivienne Ware
The Guy Who Came Back (1951)
as Kathy Joplin
Three Live Ghosts (1929)
as Rose Gordon
Bulldog Drummond (1929)
as Phyllis
Screen Actors (1950)
as Self (uncredited)
Suddenly, Love (1978)
as Mrs. Graham
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)
Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6 (1942)
as Self
The Divine Lady (1928)
as Extra (uncredited)
The Eternal City (1923)
as Page (uncredited)
The Texans (1938)
as Ivy Preston
Doctors' Wives (1931)
as Nina Wyndram Penning
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1) (1936)
as Self
Private Worlds (1935)
as Sally MacGregor
Two for Tonight (1935)
as Bobbie Lockwood
Crazy That Way (1930)
as Ann Jordan
Show Folks (1928)
as Night Club Patron (uncredited)
Scotland Yard (1930)
as Xandra, Lady Lasher
Navy Wife (1956)
as Peg Blain
Suspiria 25th Anniversary (2001)
as Self
Arizona to Broadway (1933)
as Lynn Martin
Hush Money (1931)
as Joan Gordon
Nob Hill (1945)
as Harriet Carruthers
The Mississippi Gambler (1929)
as Lucy Blackburn
Many a Slip (1931)
as Pat Coster