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