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