Joan Bennett
- Child actor
- Teen actor
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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Acted in
Dark Shadows: The Vampire Curse
2009
as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (archive footage)
Dark Shadows: The Haunting of Collinwood
2009
as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard
Armadillo
2001
as Father
Suspiria 25th Anniversary
2001
as Self
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1988
as Self (archive footage)
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
1988
as Self (archive footage)
Casting Shadows
1987
as Self – Elizabeth Collins Stoddard
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
1986
as Self
Divorce Wars: A Love Story
1982
as Adele Burgess
This House Possessed
1981
as Rag Lady
Suddenly, Love
1978
as Mrs. Graham
Suspiria
1977
as Madame Blanc
The Eyes of Charles Sand
1972
as Alexandria Sand
Gidget Gets Married
1972
as Claire Ramsey
House of Dark Shadows
1970
as Elizabeth Stoddard Collins
Dark Shadows
1966
as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard / Naomi Collins
Burke's Law
1963
as Denise Mitchell
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
1961
as 'Gone with the Wind' screen test (archive footage) (uncredited)
Desire in the Dust
1960
as Mrs. Marquand
Too Young to Go Steady
1959
as Mary Blake
DuPont Show of the Month
1957
as Grace Graves
Navy Wife
1956
as Peg Blain
There's Always Tomorrow
1956
as Marion Groves
We're No Angels
1955
as Amelie Ducotel
Climax!
1954
as Honora
Highway Dragnet
1954
as Mrs. Cummings
General Electric Theater
1953
as Bettina Blane
The Guy Who Came Back
1951
as Kathy Joplin
Father's Little Dividend
1951
as Ellie Banks
For Heaven's Sake
1950
as Lydia Bolton
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950
as Self
Father of the Bride
1950
as Ellie Banks
Screen Actors
1950
as Self (uncredited)
Your Show of Shows
1950
What's My Line?
1950
as Self
The Reckless Moment
1949
as Lucia Harper
Hollow Triumph
1948
as Evelyn Hahn
Secret Beyond the Door
1947
as Celia Lamphere
The Woman on the Beach
1947
as Peggy Butler
The Macomber Affair
1947
as Margaret Macomber
Colonel Effingham's Raid
1946
as Ella Sue Dozier
Scarlet Street
1945
as Katherine 'Kitty' March
Nob Hill
1945
as Harriet Carruthers
The Woman in the Window
1944
as Alice Reed
Margin for Error
1943
as Sophia Baumer
Girl Trouble
1942
as June Delaney
Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6
1942
as Herself
Twin Beds
1942
as Julie Abbott
The Wife Takes a Flyer
1942
as Anita Woverman
Confirm or Deny
1941
as Jennifer Carson
Wild Geese Calling
1941
as Sally Murdock
Man Hunt
1941
as Jerry Stokes
She Knew All the Answers
1941
as Gloria Winters
The Son of Monte Cristo
1940
as Grand Duchess Zona of Lichtenburg
The Man I Married
1940
as Carol Hoffman
The House Across the Bay
1940
as Brenda Bentley
Green Hell
1940
as Stephanie Richardson
The Housekeeper's Daughter
1939
as Hilda
The Man in the Iron Mask
1939
as Princess Maria Theresa
Trade Winds
1938
as Kay Kerrigan
Artists and Models Abroad
1938
as Patricia Harper
The Texans
1938
as Ivy Preston
I Met My Love Again
1938
as Julie Weir
Vogues of 1938
1937
as Wendy Van Klettering
Hollywood Party
1937
as Herself
Wedding Present
1936
as Monica 'Rusty' Fleming
Two in a Crowd
1936
as Julia Wayne
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
1936
as Self
13 Hours by Air
1936
as Felice Rollins
Big Brown Eyes
1936
as Eve Fallon
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
1935
as Helen Berkeley
The Fashion Side of Hollywood
1935
as Self
She Couldn't Take It
1935
as Carol Van Dyke
Two for Tonight
1935
as Bobbie Lockwood
Private Worlds
1935
as Sally MacGregor
Mississippi
1935
as Lucy
The Man Who Reclaimed His Head
1934
as Adele Verin
The Pursuit of Happiness
1934
as Prudence Kirkland
Little Women
1933
as Amy
Arizona to Broadway
1933
as Lynn Martin
Me and My Gal
1932
as Helen Riley
Wild Girl
1932
as Salomy Jane
Week Ends Only
1932
as Venetia Carr
The Trial of Vivienne Ware
1932
as Vivienne Ware
Careless Lady
1932
as Sally Brown
She Wanted a Millionaire
1932
as Jane Miller
Hush Money
1931
as Joan Gordon
Doctors' Wives
1931
as Nina Wyndram Penning
Many a Slip
1931
as Pat Coster
Scotland Yard
1930
as Xandra, Lady Lasher
Maybe It's Love
1930
as Nan
Moby Dick
1930
as Faith
Crazy That Way
1930
as Ann Jordan
Puttin' on the Ritz
1930
as Dolores Fenton
The Mississippi Gambler
1929
as Lucy Blackburn
Disraeli
1929
as Lady Clarissa Pevensey
Three Live Ghosts
1929
as Rose Gordon
Bulldog Drummond
1929
as Phyllis
The Divine Lady
1928
as Extra (uncredited)
Show Folks
1928
as Night Club Patron (uncredited)
Power
1928
as A Dame
The Eternal City
1923
as Page (uncredited)
The Valley of Decision
1916
as Unborn soul
Film Stars Help Greece
as Self