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