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