Joan Bennett
83 movies · 8 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Feb 27, 1910
- Died
- Dec 7, 1990 (age 80)
- Place of birth
- Palisades, New Jersey, USA
- Also known as
- Joan Geraldine Bennett · Joanie · Джоан Беннетт · جوآن بنت
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.
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Known for
Joan Bennett: movies and TV shows
Acting (91)
- 2009 Dark Shadows: The Vampire Curse
as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (archive footage)
- 2009 Dark Shadows: The Haunting of Collinwood
as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (archive footage)
- 2001
- 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
- 1972 Gidget Gets Married
as Claire Ramsey
- 1970 House of Dark Shadows
as Elizabeth Stoddard Collins
- 1966
- 1963
- 1960 Desire in the Dust
as Mrs. Marquand
- 1959
- 1957 The Thundering Wave
as Vickie Maxwell
- 1957
- 1956 Navy Wife
as Peg Blain
- 1956 There's Always Tomorrow
as Marion Groves
- 1955 We're No Angels
as Amelie Ducotel
- 1954
- 1954 Highway Dragnet
as Mrs. Cummings
- 1953
- 1951 The Guy Who Came Back
as Kathy Joplin
- 1951 Father's Little Dividend
as Ellie Banks
- 1950 For Heaven's Sake
as Lydia Bolton
- 1950 Father of the Bride
as Ellie Banks
- 1950
- 1949 The Reckless Moment
as Lucia Harper
- 1948 Hollow Triumph
as Evelyn Hahn
- 1947 Secret Beyond the Door
as Celia Lamphere
- 1947 The Woman on the Beach
as Peggy Butler
- 1947 The Macomber Affair
as Margaret Macomber
- 1946 Colonel Effingham's Raid
as Ella Sue Dozier
- 1945 Scarlet Street
as Katherine 'Kitty' March
- 1945 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
- 1942 Twin Beds
as Julie Abbott
- 1942 The Wife Takes a Flyer
as Anita Woverman
- 1941 Confirm or Deny
as Jennifer Carson
- 1941 Wild Geese Calling
as Sally Murdock
- 1941 Man Hunt
as Jerry Stokes
- 1941 She Knew All the Answers
as Gloria Winters
- 1940 The Son of Monte Cristo
as Grand Duchess Zona of Lichtenburg
- 1940 The Man I Married
as Carol Hoffman
- 1940 The House Across the Bay
as Brenda Bentley
- 1940 Green Hell
as Stephanie Richardson
- 1939 The Housekeeper's Daughter
as Hilda
- 1939 The Man in the Iron Mask
as Princess Maria Theresa
- 1938 Trade Winds
as Kay Kerrigan
- 1938 Artists and Models Abroad
as Patricia Harper
- 1938 The Texans
as Ivy Preston
- 1938 I Met My Love Again
as Julie Weir
- 1937 Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938
as Wendy Van Klettering
- 1936 Wedding Present
as Monica 'Rusty' Fleming
- 1936 Two in a Crowd
as Julia Wayne
- 1936 13 Hours by Air
as Felice Rollins
- 1936 Big Brown Eyes
as Eve Fallon
- 1935 The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
as Helen Berkeley
- 1935 She Couldn't Take It
as Carol Van Dyke
- 1935 Two for Tonight
as Bobbie Lockwood
- 1935 Private Worlds
as Sally MacGregor
- 1935 Mississippi
as Lucy
- 1934 The Man Who Reclaimed His Head
as Adele Verin
- 1934 The Pursuit of Happiness
as Prudence Kirkland
- 1933 Little Women
as Amy
- 1933 Arizona to Broadway
as Lynn Martin
- 1932 Me and My Gal
as Helen Riley
- 1932 Wild Girl
as Salomy Jane
- 1932 Week Ends Only
as Venetia Carr
- 1932 The Trial of Vivienne Ware
as Vivienne Ware
- 1932 Careless Lady
as Sally Brown
- 1932 She Wanted a Millionaire
as Jane Miller
- 1931 Hush Money
as Joan Gordon
- 1931 Doctors' Wives
as Nina Wyndram Penning
- 1931 Many a Slip
as Pat Coster
- 1930 Scotland Yard
as Xandra, Lady Lasher
- 1930 Maybe It's Love
as Nan
- 1930 Moby Dick
as Faith
- 1930 Crazy That Way
as Ann Jordan
- 1930 Puttin' on the Ritz
as Dolores Fenton
- 1929 The Mississippi Gambler
as Lucy Blackburn
- 1929 Disraeli
as Lady Clarissa Pevensey
- 1929 Three Live Ghosts
as Rose Gordon
- 1929 Bulldog Drummond
as Phyllis
- 1928 The Divine Lady
as Extra (uncredited)
- 1928 Show Folks
as Night Club Patron (uncredited)
- 1928 Power
as A Dame
- 1923 The Eternal City
as Page (uncredited)
- 1916 The Valley of Decision
as Unborn soul
Talk shows and appearances (15)
- 2001
- 1988
- 1987
- 1987
- 1986
- 1962 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
2 episodes
- 1961 The Mike Douglas Show
1 episode
- 1950 The Colgate Comedy Hour
1 episode
- 1950
- 1950 What's My Line?
1 episode
- 1942
- 1937
- 1936
- 1935
- 1933