Joan Bennett

Known for ActingBorn 1910-02-27Died 1990-12-07Palisades, New Jersey, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Dark Shadows: The Vampire Curse

Dark Shadows: The Haunting of Collinwood

She Wanted a Millionaire

Week Ends Only

Hush Money

Many a Slip

Crazy That Way

The Trial of Vivienne Ware

The Mississippi Gambler

The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn

Suddenly, Love

The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind

Armadillo

Girl Trouble

Too Young to Go Steady

Two in a Crowd

Divorce Wars: A Love Story

Power

Suspiria

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Scarlet Street

Two for Tonight

Suspiria 25th Anniversary

DuPont Show of the Month

Dark Shadows

Arizona to Broadway

The Woman in the Window

We're No Angels

There's Always Tomorrow

Your Show of Shows

The Eternal City

Hollywood Party

Navy Wife

What's My Line?

The Man in the Iron Mask

For Heaven's Sake

Father of the Bride

The Colgate Comedy Hour

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

General Electric Theater

Man Hunt

Scotland Yard

House of Dark Shadows

The Reckless Moment

Three Live Ghosts

Show Folks

The Macomber Affair

Little Women