Joan Bennett
Actor
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.
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Filmography
Scarlet Street
as Katherine 'Kitty' March 1945
The Woman in the Window
as Alice Reed 1944
Father of the Bride
as Ellie Banks 1950
We're No Angels
as Amelie Ducotel 1955
Secret Beyond the Door
as Celia Lamphere 1947
Little Women
as Amy 1933
The Reckless Moment
as Lucia Harper 1949
Man Hunt
as Jerry Stokes 1941
House of Dark Shadows
as Elizabeth Stoddard Collins 1970
Father's Little Dividend
as Ellie Banks 1951
There's Always Tomorrow
as Marion Groves 1956
Hollow Triumph
as Evelyn Hahn 1948
The Woman on the Beach
as Peggy Butler 1947
Me and My Gal
as Helen Riley 1932
The Man in the Iron Mask
as Princess Maria Theresa 1939
Highway Dragnet
as Mrs. Cummings 1954