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Joan Bennett
Joan Geraldine Bennett (February 27, 1910 – December 7, 1990) was a prominent American stage, film, and television actress who originated from a notable show-business family. Her career, which spanned from silent films into the sound era, included more than 70 films. Bennett's roles often included playing a film noir femme fatale in films directed by Fritz Lang, as well as the matriarchal character Elizabeth Collins Stoddard in the 1960s gothic soap opera Dark Shadows, where she earned an Emmy nomination in 1968. Bennett's acting career can be categorized into three distinct phases: first as an enchanting blonde ingenue, then as a sensual brunette femme fatale, before finally transitioning into a warmhearted wife-and-mother figure. A scandal in 1951, in which her third husband, film producer Walter Wanger, shot and injured her agent Jennings Lang in a fit of jealousy, marred her career. She was married four times and had four children. For her final film role in Dario Argento's horror film Suspiria (1977), she received a Saturn Award nomination.
Biography, Career & Filmography
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Given Name: Joan Geraldine Bennett
Born: Fort Lee, New Jersey, U.S.
Citizenship: United States
Birthday: February 27, 1910
Occupations: Actress
Years Active: 1916-1982
Children: 4
Spouses: John Marion Fox, Gene Markey, Walter Wanger, David Wilde
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Movies Featuring Joan Bennett
Little Women
Father of the Bride
We're No Angels
Suspiria 25th Anniversary
This House Possessed
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
The Divine Lady
For Heaven’s Sake
Arizona to Broadway
Confirm or Deny
Margin for Error
Green Hell
Me and My Gal
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
The Guy Who Came Back
She Knew All the Answers
Secret Beyond the Door
Father’s Little Dividend
The Son of Monte Cristo
The Reckless Moment
The Wife Takes a Flyer
The Eyes of Charles Sand
Desire in the Dust
The Trial of Vivienne Ware
Scarlet Street
Puttin’ on the Ritz
The Woman in the Window
The Macomber Affair
She Wanted a Millionaire
Hollywood Party
The Man Who Reclaimed His Head
I Met My Love Again
Scotland Yard
Moby Dick
Wedding Present
Twin Beds
The Fashion Side of Hollywood
Trade Winds
There’s Always Tomorrow
The Man I Married
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
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Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
Nob Hill
The Pursuit of Happiness
The Woman on the Beach
Disraeli
Vogues of 1938
Doctors’ Wives
Two for Tonight
Careless Lady
Colonel Effingham’s Raid
Film Stars Help Greece
House of Dark Shadows
Private Worlds
Two in a Crowd
Girl Trouble
The Housekeeper’s Daughter
The House Across the Bay
Hollow Triumph
Wild Girl
Bulldog Drummond
Highway Dragnet
Wild Geese Calling
13 Hours by Air
Mississippi
Gidget Gets Married
The Texans
Screen Actors
Artists and Models Abroad
Career Timeline
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1947
Secret Beyond the Door
Celia Lamphere
The Macomber Affair
Margaret Macomber
The Woman on the Beach
Peggy Butler
1941
Confirm or Deny
Jennifer Carson
She Knew All the Answers
Gloria Winters
Film Stars Help Greece
Self
Wild Geese Calling
Sally Murdock
1940
Green Hell
Stephanie Richardson
The Son of Monte Cristo
Grand Duchess Zona of Lichtenburg
The Man I Married
Carol Hoffman
The House Across the Bay
Brenda Bentley
1938
I Met My Love Again
Julie Weir
Trade Winds
Kay Kerrigan
The Texans
Ivy Preston
Artists and Models Abroad
Patricia Harper
1936
Wedding Present
Monica 'Rusty' Fleming
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
Self
Two in a Crowd
Julia Wayne
13 Hours by Air
Felice Rollins
1935
The Fashion Side of Hollywood
Self
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
Helen Berkeley
Two for Tonight
Bobbie Lockwood
Private Worlds
Sally MacGregor
Mississippi
Lucy
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