Joan Bennett

Acting · 3.4 popularity

Age

116

Movies

Born: February 27, 1910 – December 7, 1990
From: Palisades, New Jersey, USA

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.

Works

93 films

Suspiria

19777.5

We're No Angels

19557.2

Scarlet Street

19457.6

The Woman in the Window

19447.4

Father of the Bride

19507.0

Little Women

19336.8

Hollywood Party

19376.8

The Reckless Moment

19496.8

Father's Little Dividend

19516.5

Man Hunt

19416.9

The Woman on the Beach

19476.2

The Man in the Iron Mask

19397.1

Hollow Triumph

19486.6

There's Always Tomorrow

19567.2

Secret Beyond the Door

19476.4

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

19876.5

Girl Trouble

19428.3

House of Dark Shadows

19706.6

The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind

19888.2

Disraeli

19295.2

Power

19288.0

Careless Lady

19325.8

Moby Dick

19305.6

The Macomber Affair

19476.8

I Met My Love Again

19386.0

The Son of Monte Cristo

19406.2

Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938

19375.5

This House Possessed

19815.9

Green Hell

19404.5

Two in a Crowd

19368.0

Wild Girl

19326.2

Highway Dragnet

19545.7

Wedding Present

19366.3

Mississippi

19356.8

Gidget Gets Married

19726.3

Casting Shadows

1987

Wild Geese Calling

19416.5

She Wanted a Millionaire

193210.0

The Man Who Reclaimed His Head

19346.0

Twin Beds

19423.8

13 Hours by Air

19365.2

Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)

19366.0

Desire in the Dust

19604.4

The Housekeeper's Daughter

19394.6

Maybe It's Love

19305.2

The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn

19868.3

Dark Shadows: The Vampire Curse

20099.5

The Texans

19386.6

She Couldn't Take It

19355.3

She Knew All the Answers

19416.6

The Trial of Vivienne Ware

19329.0

The House Across the Bay

19405.6

Colonel Effingham's Raid

19466.0

Trade Winds

19386.4

The Wife Takes a Flyer

19425.5

Me and My Gal

19326.4

Nob Hill

19456.3

The Eyes of Charles Sand

19726.3

Divorce Wars: A Love Story

19827.5

Two for Tonight

19357.7

Big Brown Eyes

19366.2

The Valley of Decision

1916

Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6

19426.0

Artists and Models Abroad

19384.8

Screen Actors

19506.3

Hush Money

193110.0

For Heaven's Sake

19507.0

Private Worlds

19356.4

The Fashion Side of Hollywood

19356.5

Bulldog Drummond

19296.5

The Divine Lady

19285.3

The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo

19356.8

Navy Wife

19567.0

Scotland Yard

19307.0

Suddenly, Love

19788.3

Confirm or Deny

19414.8

Margin for Error

19436.3

The Eternal City

19237.5

Arizona to Broadway

19337.5

The Guy Who Came Back

19516.3

Crazy That Way

193010.0

The Man I Married

19406.3

The Pursuit of Happiness

19346.3

Week Ends Only

193210.0

Puttin' on the Ritz

19306.2

The Mississippi Gambler

19299.0

Dark Shadows: The Haunting of Collinwood

20099.4

Many a Slip

193110.0

Three Live Ghosts

19296.0

Doctors' Wives

19316.0

Suspiria 25th Anniversary

20017.0

Show Folks

19287.0

Hollywood on Parade No. A-12

1933