Joan Bennett
Gender: Female
Born: 27th February 1910
Died: 7th December 1990
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: Dark Shadows, Too Young to Go Steady
Movies: Father of the Bride, Hollow Triumph, Little Women, Scarlet Street, Suspiria, The Reckless Moment, The Woman in the Window, She Couldn't Take It, Wild Girl, Hush Money, Disraeli, Father's Little Dividend, The House Across the Bay, Private Worlds, Nob Hill, Me and My Gal, Green Hell, The Woman on the Beach, The Man in the Iron Mask, For Heaven's Sake, Moby Dick, Girl Trouble, The Son of Monte Cristo, The Man I Married, Man Hunt, Two for Tonight, Highway Dragnet, Arizona to Broadway, Doctors' Wives, The Housekeeper's Daughter, Two in a Crowd, Colonel Effingham's Raid, She Knew All the Answers, Margin of Error, The Wife Takes a Flyer, Secret Beyond the Door..., Thirteen Hours by Air, The Texans, There's Always Tomorrow, The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo, Confirm or Deny, Puttin' on the Ritz, The Macomber Affair, Thirty Day Princess, Wedding Present, Elizabeth Taylor Triad, We're No Angels, The Mississippi Gambler, Bulldog Drummond, Vogues of 1938
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 (1968). For her final movie role, as Madame Blanc in Suspiria (1977), she received a Saturn Award nomination.
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