Joan Bennett
Birthday: 1910-02-27 | Place of Birth: Palisades, New Jersey, USAJoan 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.
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Acting
Role
as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard
as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (archive footage)
as Rag Lady
as Alexandria Sand
as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard
as Mrs. Marquand
as Mary Blake
as Marion Groves
as Amelie Ducotel
as Mrs. Cummings
as Ellie Banks
as Ellie Banks
as Lydia Bolton
as Evelyn Hahn
as Celia Lamphere
as Margaret Macomber
as Peggy Butler
as Ella Sue Dozier
as Harriet Carruthers
as Katherine 'Kitty' March
as Alice Reed
as Sophia Baumer
as Gloria Winters
as Jennifer Carson
as Jerry Stokes
as Grand Duchess Zona of Lichtenburg
as Stephanie Richardson
as Princess Maria Theresa
as Ivy Preston
as Kay Kerrigan
