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