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.

Known For

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

The Mike Douglas Show

Dark Shadows

Climax!

What's My Line?

Burke's Law

The Colgate Comedy Hour

Your Show of Shows

All Movies (93)

• Dark Shadows: The Vampire Curse2009 · as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (archive footage)
• Dark Shadows: The Haunting of Collinwood2009 · as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (archive footage)
• Suspiria 25th Anniversary2001 · as Self
• The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind1988 · as Self (archive footage)
• James Stewart: A Wonderful Life1987 · as Self (archive footage)
• Casting Shadows1987 · as Self – Elizabeth Collins Stoddard
• The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn1986 · as Self
• Divorce Wars: A Love Story1982 · as Adele Burgess
• This House Possessed1981 · as Rag Lady
• Suddenly, Love1978 · as Mrs. Graham
• Suspiria1977 · as Madame Blanc
• The Eyes of Charles Sand1972 · as Alexandria Sand
• Gidget Gets Married1972 · as Claire Ramsey
• House of Dark Shadows1970 · as Elizabeth Stoddard Collins
• Desire in the Dust1960 · as Mrs. Marquand
• Navy Wife1956 · as Peg Blain
• There's Always Tomorrow1956 · as Marion Groves
• We're No Angels1955 · as Amelie Ducotel
• Highway Dragnet1954 · as Mrs. Cummings
• The Guy Who Came Back1951 · as Kathy Joplin
• Father's Little Dividend1951 · as Ellie Banks
• For Heaven's Sake1950 · as Lydia Bolton
• Father of the Bride1950 · as Ellie Banks
• Screen Actors1950 · as Self (uncredited)
• The Reckless Moment1949 · as Lucia Harper
• Hollow Triumph1948 · as Evelyn Hahn
• Secret Beyond the Door1947 · as Celia Lamphere
• The Woman on the Beach1947 · as Peggy Butler
• The Macomber Affair1947 · as Margaret Macomber
• Colonel Effingham's Raid1946 · as Ella Sue Dozier
• Scarlet Street1945 · as Katherine 'Kitty' March
• Nob Hill1945 · as Harriet Carruthers
• The Woman in the Window1944 · as Alice Reed
• Margin for Error1943 · as Sophia Baumer
• Girl Trouble1942 · as June Delaney
• Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 61942 · as Herself
• Twin Beds1942 · as Julie Abbott
• The Wife Takes a Flyer1942 · as Anita Woverman
• Confirm or Deny1941 · as Jennifer Carson
• Wild Geese Calling1941 · as Sally Murdock
• Man Hunt1941 · as Jerry Stokes
• She Knew All the Answers1941 · as Gloria Winters
• The Son of Monte Cristo1940 · as Grand Duchess Zona of Lichtenburg
• The Man I Married1940 · as Carol Hoffman
• The House Across the Bay1940 · as Brenda Bentley
• Green Hell1940 · as Stephanie Richardson
• The Housekeeper's Daughter1939 · as Hilda
• The Man in the Iron Mask1939 · as Princess Maria Theresa
• Trade Winds1938 · as Kay Kerrigan
• Artists and Models Abroad1938 · as Patricia Harper
• The Texans1938 · as Ivy Preston
• I Met My Love Again1938 · as Julie Weir
• Vogues of 19381937 · as Wendy Van Klettering
• Hollywood Party1937 · as Herself
• Wedding Present1936 · as Monica 'Rusty' Fleming
• Two in a Crowd1936 · as Julia Wayne
• Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)1936 · as Self
• 13 Hours by Air1936 · as Felice Rollins
• Big Brown Eyes1936 · as Eve Fallon
• The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo1935 · as Helen Berkeley
• The Fashion Side of Hollywood1935 · as Self
• She Couldn't Take It1935 · as Carol Van Dyke
• Two for Tonight1935 · as Bobbie Lockwood
• Private Worlds1935 · as Sally MacGregor
• Mississippi1935 · as Lucy
• The Man Who Reclaimed His Head1934 · as Adele Verin
• The Pursuit of Happiness1934 · as Prudence Kirkland
• Little Women1933 · as Amy
• Arizona to Broadway1933 · as Lynn Martin
• Hollywood on Parade No. A-121933 · as Self
• Me and My Gal1932 · as Helen Riley
• Wild Girl1932 · as Salomy Jane
• Week Ends Only1932 · as Venetia Carr
• The Trial of Vivienne Ware1932 · as Vivienne Ware
• Careless Lady1932 · as Sally Brown
• She Wanted a Millionaire1932 · as Jane Miller
• Hush Money1931 · as Joan Gordon
• Doctors' Wives1931 · as Nina Wyndram Penning
• Many a Slip1931 · as Pat Coster
• Scotland Yard1930 · as Xandra, Lady Lasher
• Maybe It's Love1930 · as Nan
• Moby Dick1930 · as Faith
• Crazy That Way1930 · as Ann Jordan
• Puttin' on the Ritz1930 · as Dolores Fenton
• The Mississippi Gambler1929 · as Lucy Blackburn
• Disraeli1929 · as Lady Clarissa Pevensey
• Three Live Ghosts1929 · as Rose Gordon
• Bulldog Drummond1929 · as Phyllis
• The Divine Lady1928 · as Extra (uncredited)
• Show Folks1928 · as Night Club Patron (uncredited)
• Power1928 · as A Dame
• The Eternal City1923 · as Page (uncredited)
• The Valley of Decision1916 · as Unborn soul

All TV Shows (12)

• Armadillo2001 · as Father
• Dark Shadows1966 · as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard / Naomi Collins
• Burke's Law1963 · as Denise Mitchell
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson1962 · as Self
• The Mike Douglas Show1961 · as Self
• Too Young to Go Steady1959 · as Mary Blake
• DuPont Show of the Month1957 · as Grace Graves
• Climax!1954 · as Honora
• General Electric Theater1953 · as Bettina Blane
• The Colgate Comedy Hour1950 · as Self
• Your Show of Shows1950
• What's My Line?1950 · as Self