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
- Armadillo as Father
- Suspiria 25th Anniversary as Self
1988
- The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind as Self (archive footage)
1987
- James Stewart: A Wonderful Life as Self (archive footage)
- Casting Shadows as Self – Elizabeth Collins Stoddard
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
- The Eyes of Charles Sand as Alexandria Sand
- Gidget Gets Married as Claire Ramsey
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
- There's Always Tomorrow as Marion Groves
- Navy Wife as Peg Blain
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
- Father of the Bride as Ellie Banks
- For Heaven's Sake as Lydia Bolton
- Screen Actors as Self (uncredited)
1949
- The Reckless Moment as Lucia Harper
1948
- Hollow Triumph as Evelyn Hahn
1947
- Secret Beyond the Door as Celia Lamphere
- The Woman on the Beach as Peggy Butler
- The Macomber Affair as Margaret Macomber
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
- Girl Trouble as June Delaney
- The Wife Takes a Flyer as Anita Woverman
- Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6 as Self
- Twin Beds as Julie Abbott
1941
- Man Hunt as Jerry Stokes
- She Knew All the Answers as Gloria Winters
- Confirm or Deny as Jennifer Carson
- Wild Geese Calling as Sally Murdock
1940
- The Son of Monte Cristo as Grand Duchess Zona of Lichtenburg
- Green Hell as Stephanie Richardson
- The House Across the Bay as Brenda Bentley
- The Man I Married as Carol Hoffman
1939
- The Man in the Iron Mask as Princess Maria Theresa
- The Housekeeper's Daughter as Hilda
1938
- I Met My Love Again as Julie Weir
- Artists and Models Abroad as Patricia Harper
- Trade Winds as Kay Kerrigan
- The Texans as Ivy Preston
1937
- Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938 as Wendy Van Klettering
- Hollywood Party as Herself
1936
- Two in a Crowd as Julia Wayne
- Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1) as Self
- 13 Hours by Air as Felice Rollins
- Wedding Present as Monica 'Rusty' Fleming
- Big Brown Eyes as Eve Fallon
1935
- The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo as Helen Berkeley
- She Couldn't Take It as Carol Van Dyke
- The Fashion Side of Hollywood as Self - Lucy (archive footage)
- Mississippi as Lucy
- Two for Tonight as Bobbie Lockwood
- Private Worlds as Sally MacGregor
1934
- The Pursuit of Happiness as Prudence Kirkland
- The Man Who Reclaimed His Head as Adele Verin
1933
- Little Women as Amy
- Hollywood on Parade No. A-12 as Self
- Arizona to Broadway as Lynn Martin
1932
- Careless Lady as Sally Brown
- Me and My Gal as Helen Riley
- The Trial of Vivienne Ware as Vivienne Ware
- She Wanted a Millionaire as Jane Miller
- Wild Girl as Salomy Jane
- 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
- Moby Dick as Faith
- Maybe It's Love as Nan
- Puttin' on the Ritz as Dolores Fenton
- Scotland Yard as Xandra, Lady Lasher
- Crazy That Way as Ann Jordan
1929
- Disraeli as Lady Clarissa Pevensey
- Bulldog Drummond as Phyllis
- Three Live Ghosts as Rose Gordon
- The Mississippi Gambler as Lucy Blackburn
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