Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1910-02-27
Day of Death
1990-12-07
Place of Birth
Palisades, New Jersey, USA
Joan Bennett
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.
Filmography (93)
Dark Shadows: The Vampire Curse
2009
Dark Shadows: The Haunting of Collinwood
2009
Suspiria 25th Anniversary
2001
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
1988
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1987
Casting Shadows
1987
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
1986
Divorce Wars: A Love Story
1982
This House Possessed
1981
Suddenly, Love
1978
Suspiria
1977
The Eyes of Charles Sand
1972
Gidget Gets Married
1972
House of Dark Shadows
1970
