Name
Joan Bennett
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1910-02-27
Deathday
1990-12-07 (80 years old)
Place of Birth
Palisades, New Jersey, USA
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.
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- 1947 Secret Beyond the Door as Celia Lamphere
- 1978 Suddenly, Love as Mrs. Graham
- 1950 Father of the Bride as Ellie Banks
- 1955 We're No Angels as Amelie Ducotel
- 1951 Father's Little Dividend as Ellie Banks
- 1941 Man Hunt as Jerry Stokes
- 1948 Hollow Triumph as Evelyn Hahn
- 1949 The Reckless Moment as Lucia Harper
- 1947 The Macomber Affair as Margaret Macomber
- 1943 Margin for Error as Sophia Baumer
- 1947 The Woman on the Beach as Peggy Butler
- 1956 There's Always Tomorrow as Marion Groves
- 1939 The Man in the Iron Mask as Princess Maria Theresa
- 1940 The House Across the Bay as Brenda Bentley
- 1954 Highway Dragnet as Mrs. Cummings
- 1945 Scarlet Street as Katherine 'Kitty' March
- 1944 The Woman in the Window as Alice Reed
- 1933 Little Women as Amy
- 1940 The Son of Monte Cristo as Grand Duchess Zona of Lichtenburg
- 1929 Bulldog Drummond as Phyllis
- 1936 Wedding Present as Monica 'Rusty' Fleming
- 1936 Big Brown Eyes as Eve Fallon
- 1970 House of Dark Shadows as Elizabeth Stoddard Collins
- 1929 Disraeli as Lady Clarissa Pevensey
- 1932 Me and My Gal as Helen Riley
- 1972 Gidget Gets Married as Claire Ramsey
- 1941 Confirm or Deny as Jennifer Carson
- 1930 Puttin' on the Ritz as Dolores Fenton
- 1950 For Heaven's Sake as Lydia Bolton
- 1935 Private Worlds as Sally MacGregor
- 1938 The Texans as Ivy Preston
- 1937 Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938 as Wendy Van Klettering
- 1935 Mississippi as Lucy
- 1934 The Man Who Reclaimed His Head as Adele Verin
- 1930 Maybe It's Love as Nan
- 1932 Wild Girl as Salomy Jane
- 1940 Green Hell as Stephanie Richardson
- 1934 The Pursuit of Happiness as Prudence Kirkland
- 1935 The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo as Helen Berkeley
- 1933 Arizona to Broadway as Lynn Martin
- 1938 Trade Winds as Kay Kerrigan
- 1930 Moby Dick as Faith
- 1940 The Man I Married as Carol Hoffman
- 1938 I Met My Love Again as Julie Weir
- 1939 The Housekeeper's Daughter as Hilda
- 1929 Three Live Ghosts as Rose Gordon
- 1935 Two for Tonight as Bobbie Lockwood
- 1937 Hollywood Party as Herself
- 1945 Nob Hill as Harriet Carruthers
- 1938 Artists and Models Abroad as Patricia Harper
- 1936 13 Hours by Air as Felice Rollins
- 1935 She Couldn't Take It as Carol Van Dyke
- 1930 Scotland Yard as Xandra, Lady Lasher
- 1932 The Trial of Vivienne Ware as Vivienne Ware
- 1932 She Wanted a Millionaire as Jane Miller
- 1981 This House Possessed as Rag Lady
- 1951 The Guy Who Came Back as Kathy Joplin
- 1942 The Wife Takes a Flyer as Anita Woverman
- 1923 The Eternal City as Page (uncredited)
- 1936 Two in a Crowd as Julia Wayne
- 1928 The Divine Lady as Extra (uncredited)
- 1941 Wild Geese Calling as Sally Murdock
- 1931 Doctors' Wives as Nina Wyndram Penning
- 1932 Careless Lady as Sally Brown
- 1942 Girl Trouble as June Delaney
- 1982 Divorce Wars: A Love Story as Adele Burgess
- 1960 Desire in the Dust as Mrs. Marquand
- 1941 She Knew All the Answers as Gloria Winters
- 1932 Week Ends Only as Venetia Carr
- 1956 Navy Wife as Peg Blain
- 1935 The Fashion Side of Hollywood as Self
- 1929 The Mississippi Gambler as Lucy Blackburn
- 1946 Colonel Effingham's Raid as Ella Sue Dozier
- 1942 Twin Beds as Julie Abbott
- 1928 Show Folks as Night Club Patron (uncredited)
- 1942 Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6 as Herself
- 2009 Dark Shadows: The Vampire Curse as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (archive footage)
- 1986 The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn as Self
- 1931 Hush Money as Joan Gordon
- 2009 Dark Shadows: The Haunting of Collinwood as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (archive footage)
- 1988 The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind as Self (archive footage)
- 1928 Power as A Dame
- 2001 Suspiria 25th Anniversary as Self
- 1936 Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1) as Self
- 1987 James Stewart: A Wonderful Life as Self (archive footage)
- 1916 The Valley of Decision as Unborn soul
- 1977 Suspiria as Madame Blanc
- 1972 The Eyes of Charles Sand as Alexandria Sand
- 1950 Screen Actors as Self (uncredited)
- 1931 Many a Slip as Pat Coster
- 1930 Crazy That Way as Ann Jordan
- 1987 Casting Shadows as Self – Elizabeth Collins Stoddard
- 1933 Hollywood on Parade No. A-12 as Self
- 1963 Burke's Law ( 1 episode ) as Denise Mitchell
- 1950 The Colgate Comedy Hour ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1966 Dark Shadows ( 1225 episodes ) as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard / Naomi Collins
- 1953 General Electric Theater ( 1 episode ) as Bettina Blane
- 1950 Your Show of Shows ( 1 episode )
- 1954 Climax! ( 1 episode ) as Honora
- 1959 Too Young to Go Steady ( 7 episodes ) as Mary Blake
- 2001 Armadillo ( 1 episode ) as Father
- 1957 DuPont Show of the Month ( 1 episode ) as Grace Graves
- 1950 What's My Line? ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1962 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 1961 The Mike Douglas Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
