Joan Bennett

Acting Feb 27, 1910 Dec 7, 1990 (aged 80) Palisades, New Jersey, USA

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.

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105 Acting Credits

Joan Bennett

Acting

Suspiria

Scarlet Street

The Woman in the Window

Father of the Bride

We're No Angels

Secret Beyond the Door

Little Women

The Reckless Moment

Man Hunt

Dark Shadows

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

House of Dark Shadows

Father's Little Dividend

There's Always Tomorrow

Hollow Triumph

The Woman on the Beach

Me and My Gal

The Man in the Iron Mask

Highway Dragnet

Disraeli

What's My Line?

Bulldog Drummond

Big Brown Eyes

The Divine Lady