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Known For
Acting
Birthday
February 27, 1910
Died
December 7, 1990
Place of Birth
Palisades, New Jersey, USA
Also Known As
- Joan Geraldine Bennett
- Joanie
- Джоан Беннетт
- جوآن بنت
Joan Bennett
1.1 Popularity
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.
Known For
9.5
Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (archive footage)
Dark Shadows: The Vampire Curse
2009
9.4
Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (archive footage)
Dark Shadows: The Haunting of Collinwood
2009
0.0
Father
Armadillo
2001
6.4
Self
Suspiria 25th Anniversary
2001
8.0
Self (archive footage)
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
1988
6.0
Self (archive footage)
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1987
0.0
Self – Elizabeth Collins Stoddard
Casting Shadows
1987
8.0
Self
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
1986
7.0
Adele Burgess
Divorce Wars: A Love Story
1982
5.7
Rag Lady
This House Possessed
1981
Credits
Dark Shadows: The Vampire Curse
as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (archive footage)
2009
9.5
Dark Shadows: The Haunting of Collinwood
as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (archive footage)
2009
9.4
Armadillo
as Father
2001
0.0
Suspiria 25th Anniversary
as Self
2001
6.4
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
as Self (archive footage)
1988
8.0
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
as Self (archive footage)
1987
6.0
Casting Shadows
as Self – Elizabeth Collins Stoddard
1987
0.0
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
as Self
1986
8.0
Divorce Wars: A Love Story
as Adele Burgess
1982
7.0
This House Possessed
as Rag Lady
1981
5.7
Suddenly, Love
as Mrs. Graham
1978
9.0
Suspiria
as Madame Blanc
1977
7.5
The Eyes of Charles Sand
as Alexandria Sand
1972
5.3
Gidget Gets Married
as Claire Ramsey
1972
5.6
House of Dark Shadows
as Elizabeth Stoddard Collins
1970
6.5
Dark Shadows
as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard / Naomi Collins
1966
7.3
Burke's Law
as Denise Mitchell
1963
6.0
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
7.5
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
1961
5.4
Desire in the Dust
as Mrs. Marquand
1960
3.3
🎬
Too Young to Go Steady
as Mary Blake
1959
0.0
DuPont Show of the Month
as Grace Graves
1957
6.8
Navy Wife
as Peg Blain
1956
0.0
There's Always Tomorrow
as Marion Groves
1956
7.1
We're No Angels
as Amelie Ducotel
1955
7.2
Climax!
as Honora
1954
3.3
Highway Dragnet
as Mrs. Cummings
1954
5.7
General Electric Theater
as Bettina Blane
1953
6.4
The Guy Who Came Back
as Kathy Joplin
1951
3.0
Father's Little Dividend
as Ellie Banks
1951
6.5
For Heaven's Sake
as Lydia Bolton
1950
6.9
The Colgate Comedy Hour
as Self
1950
6.8
Father of the Bride
as Ellie Banks
1950
7.0
🎬
Screen Actors
as Self (uncredited)
1950
6.0
Your Show of Shows
1950
6.3
What's My Line?
as Self
1950
6.9
The Reckless Moment
as Lucia Harper
1949
6.7
Hollow Triumph
as Evelyn Hahn
1948
6.6
Secret Beyond the Door
as Celia Lamphere
1947
6.5
The Woman on the Beach
as Peggy Butler
1947
6.0
The Macomber Affair
as Margaret Macomber
1947
6.2
Colonel Effingham's Raid
as Ella Sue Dozier
1946
5.7
Scarlet Street
as Katherine 'Kitty' March
1945
7.6
Nob Hill
as Harriet Carruthers
1945
5.7
The Woman in the Window
as Alice Reed
1944
7.4
Margin for Error
as Sophia Baumer
1943
5.7
Girl Trouble
as June Delaney
1942
6.5
Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6
as Herself
1942
6.0
Twin Beds
as Julie Abbott
1942
2.8
The Wife Takes a Flyer
as Anita Woverman
1942
4.5
Confirm or Deny
as Jennifer Carson
1941
3.8
Wild Geese Calling
as Sally Murdock
1941
5.8
Man Hunt
as Jerry Stokes
1941
6.9
She Knew All the Answers
as Gloria Winters
1941
6.3
The Son of Monte Cristo
as Grand Duchess Zona of Lichtenburg
1940
5.9
The Man I Married
as Carol Hoffman
1940
6.0
The House Across the Bay
as Brenda Bentley
1940
5.5
Green Hell
as Stephanie Richardson
1940
3.9
The Housekeeper's Daughter
as Hilda
1939
3.5
The Man in the Iron Mask
as Princess Maria Theresa
1939
7.1
Trade Winds
as Kay Kerrigan
1938
6.3
Artists and Models Abroad
as Patricia Harper
1938
4.2
The Texans
as Ivy Preston
1938
5.6
I Met My Love Again
as Julie Weir
1938
5.4
Vogues of 1938
as Wendy Van Klettering
1937
5.4
Hollywood Party
as Herself
1937
6.3
Wedding Present
as Monica 'Rusty' Fleming
1936
6.5
Two in a Crowd
as Julia Wayne
1936
0.0
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
as Self
1936
6.0
13 Hours by Air
as Felice Rollins
1936
4.6
Big Brown Eyes
as Eve Fallon
1936
6.3
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
as Helen Berkeley
1935
6.3
The Fashion Side of Hollywood
as Self
1935
6.0
She Couldn't Take It
as Carol Van Dyke
1935
4.5
Two for Tonight
as Bobbie Lockwood
1935
6.5
Private Worlds
as Sally MacGregor
1935
6.0
Mississippi
as Lucy
1935
6.7
The Man Who Reclaimed His Head
as Adele Verin
1934
6.0
The Pursuit of Happiness
as Prudence Kirkland
1934
5.8
Little Women
as Amy
1933
6.8
Arizona to Broadway
as Lynn Martin
1933
7.0
Me and My Gal
as Helen Riley
1932
6.3
Wild Girl
as Salomy Jane
1932
6.0
Week Ends Only
as Venetia Carr
1932
0.0
The Trial of Vivienne Ware
as Vivienne Ware
1932
0.0
Careless Lady
as Sally Brown
1932
5.2
She Wanted a Millionaire
as Jane Miller
1932
0.0
Hush Money
as Joan Gordon
1931
0.0
Doctors' Wives
as Nina Wyndram Penning
1931
0.0
Many a Slip
as Pat Coster
1931
0.0
Scotland Yard
as Xandra, Lady Lasher
1930
5.0
Maybe It's Love
as Nan
1930
4.2
Moby Dick
as Faith
1930
5.3
Crazy That Way
as Ann Jordan
1930
0.0
Puttin' on the Ritz
as Dolores Fenton
1930
5.2
The Mississippi Gambler
as Lucy Blackburn
1929
0.0
Disraeli
as Lady Clarissa Pevensey
1929
5.0
Three Live Ghosts
as Rose Gordon
1929
0.0
Bulldog Drummond
as Phyllis
1929
6.5
The Divine Lady
as Extra (uncredited)
1928
5.2
Show Folks
as Night Club Patron (uncredited)
1928
6.0
Power
as A Dame
1928
6.0
The Eternal City
as Page (uncredited)
1923
6.0
The Valley of Decision
as Unborn soul
1916
0.0