Joan Bennett
Acting • Born 1910-02-27 – Died 1990-12-07
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
105 credits
Secret Beyond the Door
Movie • 1947
Celia Lamphere
Suddenly, Love
Movie • 1978
Mrs. Graham
Father of the Bride
Movie • 1950
Ellie Banks
We're No Angels
Movie • 1955
Amelie Ducotel
Father's Little Dividend
Movie • 1951
Ellie Banks
Man Hunt
Movie • 1941
Jerry Stokes
Hollow Triumph
Movie • 1948
Evelyn Hahn
The Reckless Moment
Movie • 1949
Lucia Harper
The Macomber Affair
Movie • 1947
Margaret Macomber
Margin for Error
Movie • 1943
Sophia Baumer
The Woman on the Beach
Movie • 1947
Peggy Butler
There's Always Tomorrow
Movie • 1956
Marion Groves
The Man in the Iron Mask
Movie • 1939
Princess Maria Theresa
The House Across the Bay
Movie • 1940
Brenda Bentley
Highway Dragnet
Movie • 1954
Mrs. Cummings
Scarlet Street
Movie • 1945
Katherine 'Kitty' March
The Woman in the Window
Movie • 1944
Alice Reed
Little Women
Movie • 1933
Amy
The Son of Monte Cristo
Movie • 1940
Grand Duchess Zona of Lichtenburg
Bulldog Drummond
Movie • 1929
Phyllis
Wedding Present
Movie • 1936
Monica 'Rusty' Fleming
Big Brown Eyes
Movie • 1936
Eve Fallon
House of Dark Shadows
Movie • 1970
Elizabeth Stoddard Collins
Disraeli
Movie • 1929
Lady Clarissa Pevensey
Me and My Gal
Movie • 1932
Helen Riley
Gidget Gets Married
Movie • 1972
Claire Ramsey
Confirm or Deny
Movie • 1941
Jennifer Carson
Puttin' on the Ritz
Movie • 1930
Dolores Fenton
For Heaven's Sake
Movie • 1950
Lydia Bolton
Private Worlds
Movie • 1935
Sally MacGregor
The Texans
Movie • 1938
Ivy Preston
Vogues of 1938
Movie • 1937
Wendy Van Klettering
Mississippi
Movie • 1935
Lucy
The Man Who Reclaimed His Head
Movie • 1934
Adele Verin
Maybe It's Love
Movie • 1930
Nan
Wild Girl
Movie • 1932
Salomy Jane
Green Hell
Movie • 1940
Stephanie Richardson
The Pursuit of Happiness
Movie • 1934
Prudence Kirkland
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
Movie • 1935
Helen Berkeley
Arizona to Broadway
Movie • 1933
Lynn Martin
Trade Winds
Movie • 1938
Kay Kerrigan
Moby Dick
Movie • 1930
Faith
The Man I Married
Movie • 1940
Carol Hoffman
I Met My Love Again
Movie • 1938
Julie Weir
The Housekeeper's Daughter
Movie • 1939
Hilda
Three Live Ghosts
Movie • 1929
Rose Gordon
Two for Tonight
Movie • 1935
Bobbie Lockwood
Hollywood Party
Movie • 1937
Herself
Nob Hill
Movie • 1945
Harriet Carruthers
Artists and Models Abroad
Movie • 1938
Patricia Harper
13 Hours by Air
Movie • 1936
Felice Rollins
She Couldn't Take It
Movie • 1935
Carol Van Dyke
Scotland Yard
Movie • 1930
Xandra, Lady Lasher
The Trial of Vivienne Ware
Movie • 1932
Vivienne Ware
She Wanted a Millionaire
Movie • 1932
Jane Miller
This House Possessed
Movie • 1981
Rag Lady
The Guy Who Came Back
Movie • 1951
Kathy Joplin
The Wife Takes a Flyer
Movie • 1942
Anita Woverman
The Eternal City
Movie • 1923
Page (uncredited)
Two in a Crowd
Movie • 1936
Julia Wayne
The Divine Lady
Movie • 1928
Extra (uncredited)
Wild Geese Calling
Movie • 1941
Sally Murdock
Doctors' Wives
Movie • 1931
Nina Wyndram Penning
Careless Lady
Movie • 1932
Sally Brown
Girl Trouble
Movie • 1942
June Delaney
Divorce Wars: A Love Story
Movie • 1982
Adele Burgess
Desire in the Dust
Movie • 1960
Mrs. Marquand
She Knew All the Answers
Movie • 1941
Gloria Winters
Week Ends Only
Movie • 1932
Venetia Carr
Navy Wife
Movie • 1956
Peg Blain
The Fashion Side of Hollywood
Movie • 1935
Self
The Mississippi Gambler
Movie • 1929
Lucy Blackburn
Colonel Effingham's Raid
Movie • 1946
Ella Sue Dozier
Twin Beds
Movie • 1942
Julie Abbott
Show Folks
Movie • 1928
Night Club Patron (uncredited)
Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6
Movie • 1942
Herself
Dark Shadows: The Vampire Curse
Movie • 2009
Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (archive footage)
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
Movie • 1986
Self
Hush Money
Movie • 1931
Joan Gordon
Dark Shadows: The Haunting of Collinwood
Movie • 2009
Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (archive footage)
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Movie • 1988
Self (archive footage)
Power
Movie • 1928
A Dame
Suspiria 25th Anniversary
Movie • 2001
Self
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
Movie • 1936
Self
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Movie • 1987
Self (archive footage)
The Valley of Decision
Movie • 1916
Unborn soul
Suspiria
Movie • 1977
Madame Blanc
The Eyes of Charles Sand
Movie • 1972
Alexandria Sand
Screen Actors
Movie • 1950
Self (uncredited)
Many a Slip
Movie • 1931
Pat Coster
Crazy That Way
Movie • 1930
Ann Jordan
Casting Shadows
Movie • 1987
Self – Elizabeth Collins Stoddard
Hollywood on Parade No. A-12
Movie • 1933
Self
Burke's Law
TV • 1963
Denise Mitchell
The Colgate Comedy Hour
TV • 1950
Self
Dark Shadows
TV • 1966
Elizabeth Collins Stoddard / Naomi Collins
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
Bettina Blane
Your Show of Shows
TV • 1950
Climax!
TV • 1954
Honora
Too Young to Go Steady
TV • 1959
Mary Blake
Armadillo
TV • 2001
Father
DuPont Show of the Month
TV • 1957
Grace Graves
What's My Line?
TV • 1950
Self
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV • 1962
Self
The Mike Douglas Show
TV • 1961
Self