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Joan Bennett

Joan Bennett

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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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)

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 - Mystery Guest

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