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.
Movie | Dark Shadows: The Vampire Curse | Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (archive footage) | 2009-09-15 |
Movie | Dark Shadows: The Haunting of Collinwood | Elizabeth Collins Stoddard | 2009-09-15 |
Movie | Amélie | Ellie Banks (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2001-04-25 |
Movie | Suspiria 25th Anniversary | Self | 2001-09-11 |
Movie | The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind | Self (archive footage) | 1988-10-01 |
Movie | James Stewart: A Wonderful Life | Self (archive footage) | 1988-11-22 |
Movie | The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn | Self | 1986-03-09 |
Movie | Divorce Wars: A Love Story | Adele Burgess | 1982-03-01 |
Movie | This House Possessed | Rag Lady | 1981-02-06 |
Movie | Suddenly, Love | Mrs. Graham | 1978-12-04 |
Movie | Suspiria | Madame Blanc | 1977-02-01 |
Movie | Gidget Gets Married | Claire Ramsey | 1972-01-04 |
Movie | The Eyes of Charles Sand | Alexandria Sand | 1972-02-29 |
Movie | House of Dark Shadows | Elizabeth Stoddard Collins | 1970-09-09 |
Series | Dark Shadows | Elizabeth Collins Stoddard | 1966-06-27 |
Series | Burke's Law | Unknown | 1963-09-20 |
Movie | Hollywood: The Selznick Years | 'Gone with the Wind' screen test (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1961-12-31 |
Movie | Desire in the Dust | Mrs. Marquand | 1960-10-10 |
Series | Too Young to Go Steady | Mary Blake | 1959-05-14 |
Movie | There's Always Tomorrow | Marion Groves | 1956-01-08 |
Movie | Navy Wife | Peg Blain | 1956-05-20 |
Movie | We're No Angels | Amelie Ducotel | 1955-07-07 |
Movie | Highway Dragnet | Mrs. Cummings | 1954-01-20 |
Series | Climax! | Unknown | 1954-10-07 |
Series | General Electric Theater | Unknown | 1953-02-01 |
Movie | Father's Little Dividend | Ellie Banks | 1951-04-05 |
Movie | The Guy Who Came Back | Kathy Joplin | 1951-08-16 |
Series | Your Show of Shows | Unknown | 1950-02-25 |
Movie | Screen Actors | Self (uncredited) | 1950-05-13 |
Series | The Colgate Comedy Hour | Unknown | 1950-09-10 |
Movie | For Heaven's Sake | Lydia Bolton | 1950-12-15 |
Movie | Father of the Bride | Ellie Banks | 1950-05-18 |
Movie | The Reckless Moment | Lucia Harper | 1949-12-09 |
Movie | Hollow Triumph | Evelyn Hahn | 1948-08-18 |
Movie | The Macomber Affair | Margaret Macomber | 1947-04-20 |
Movie | Secret Beyond the Door... | Celia Lamphere | 1947-12-24 |
Movie | The Woman on the Beach | Peggy Butler | 1947-06-07 |
Movie | Colonel Effingham's Raid | Ella Sue Dozier | 1946-01-24 |
Movie | Nob Hill | Harriet Carruthers | 1945-06-13 |
Movie | Scarlet Street | Katherine 'Kitty' March | 1945-12-25 |
Movie | The Woman in the Window | Alice Reed | 1944-10-25 |
Movie | Margin for Error | Sophia Baumer | 1943-02-10 |
Movie | The Wife Takes a Flyer | Anita Woverman | 1942-04-28 |
Movie | Girl Trouble | June Delaney | 1942-10-09 |
Movie | Twin Beds | Julie Abbott | 1942-04-30 |
Movie | Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6 | Herself | 1942-10-05 |
Movie | She Knew All the Answers | Gloria Winters | 1941-05-13 |
Movie | Man Hunt | Jerry Stokes | 1941-06-13 |
Movie | Wild Geese Calling | Sally Murdock | 1941-08-15 |
Movie | Confirm or Deny | Jennifer Carson | 1941-12-12 |
Movie | Green Hell | Stephanie Richardson | 1940-01-26 |
Movie | The House Across the Bay | Brenda Bentley | 1940-03-01 |
Movie | The Son of Monte Cristo | Grand Duchess Zona of Lichtenburg | 1940-12-05 |
Movie | The Man I Married | Carol Hoffman | 1940-08-09 |
Movie | The Man in the Iron Mask | Princess Maria Theresa | 1939-07-13 |
Movie | The Housekeeper's Daughter | Hilda | 1939-10-26 |
Movie | I Met My Love Again | Julie Weir | 1938-01-14 |
Movie | The Texans | Ivy Preston | 1938-08-12 |
Movie | Trade Winds | Kay Kerrigan | 1938-12-28 |
Movie | Artists and Models Abroad | Patricia Harper | 1938-12-20 |
Movie | Hollywood Party | Herself | 1937-04-03 |
Movie | Vogues of 1938 | Wendy Van Klettering | 1937-08-18 |
Movie | Big Brown Eyes | Eve Fallon | 1936-04-03 |
Movie | 13 Hours by Air | Felice Rollins | 1936-04-30 |
Movie | Two in a Crowd | Julia Wayne | 1936-10-03 |
Movie | Wedding Present | Monica 'Rusty' Fleming | 1936-10-09 |
Movie | Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1) | Self | 1936-09-11 |
Movie | Private Worlds | Sally MacGregor | 1935-04-19 |
Movie | Two for Tonight | Bobbie Lockwood | 1935-09-12 |
Movie | Mississippi | Lucy | 1935-03-22 |
Movie | She Couldn't Take It | Carol Van Dyke | 1935-10-08 |
Movie | The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo | Helen Berkeley | 1935-11-14 |
Movie | The Fashion Side of Hollywood | Self | 1935-11-04 |
Movie | The Pursuit of Happiness | Prudence Kirkland | 1934-09-27 |
Movie | The Man Who Reclaimed His Head | Adele Verin | 1934-12-24 |
Movie | Arizona to Broadway | Lynn Martin | 1933-07-22 |
Movie | Little Women | Amy | 1933-11-24 |
Movie | Careless Lady | Sally Brown | 1932-04-02 |
Movie | She Wanted a Millionaire | Jane Miller | 1932-02-21 |
Movie | The Trial of Vivienne Ware | Vivienne Ware | 1932-05-01 |
Movie | Week Ends Only | Venetia Carr | 1932-06-19 |
Movie | Me and My Gal | Helen Riley | 1932-12-04 |
Movie | Wild Girl | Salomy Jane | 1932-11-09 |
Movie | Doctors' Wives | Nina Wyndram Penning | 1931-03-14 |
Movie | Hush Money | Joan Gordon | 1931-07-05 |
Movie | Puttin' on the Ritz | Dolores Fenton | 1930-02-19 |
Movie | Scotland Yard | Xandra, Lady Lasher | 1930-10-19 |
Movie | Moby Dick | Faith | 1930-09-20 |
Movie | Maybe It's Love | Nan | 1930-10-04 |
Movie | Bulldog Drummond | Phyllis | 1929-05-02 |
Movie | Three Live Ghosts | Rose Gordon | 1929-09-15 |
Movie | Disraeli | Lady Clarissa Pevensey | 1929-11-01 |
Movie | The Mississippi Gambler | Lucy Blackburn | 1929-11-03 |
Movie | Power | A Dame | 1928-09-23 |
Movie | Show Folks | Night Club Patron (uncredited) | 1928-10-20 |
Movie | The Divine Lady | Extra (uncredited) | 1928-12-26 |
Movie | The Eternal City | Page (uncredited) | 1923-12-17 |
Movie | The Valley of Decision | Unborn soul | 1916-12-04 |