Acting · Palisades, New Jersey, USA · Born February 27, 1910
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joan Bennett, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
MovieDark Shadows: The Vampire Curse
2009
as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (archive footage)
MovieDark Shadows: The Haunting of Collinwood
2009
as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (archive footage)
TVArmadillo
2001
as Father
MovieSuspiria 25th Anniversary
2001
as Self
MovieThe Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
1988
as Self (archive footage)
MovieJames Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1987
as Self (archive footage)
MovieCasting Shadows
1987
as Self – Elizabeth Collins Stoddard
MovieThe Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
1986
as Self
MovieDivorce Wars: A Love Story
1982
as Adele Burgess
MovieThis House Possessed
1981
as Rag Lady
MovieSuddenly, Love
1978
as Mrs. Graham
MovieSuspiria
1977
as Madame Blanc
MovieThe Eyes of Charles Sand
1972
as Alexandria Sand
MovieGidget Gets Married
1972
as Claire Ramsey
MovieHouse of Dark Shadows
1970
as Elizabeth Stoddard Collins
TVDark Shadows
1966
as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard / Naomi Collins
TVBurke's Law
1963
as Denise Mitchell
TVThe Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self
TVThe Mike Douglas Show
1961
as Self
MovieDesire in the Dust
1960
as Mrs. Marquand
Too Young to Go Steady
1959
as Mary Blake
TVDuPont Show of the Month
1957
as Grace Graves
MovieNavy Wife
1956
as Peg Blain
MovieThere's Always Tomorrow
1956
as Marion Groves
MovieWe're No Angels
1955
as Amelie Ducotel
TVClimax!
1954
as Honora
MovieHighway Dragnet
1954
as Mrs. Cummings
TVGeneral Electric Theater
1953
as Bettina Blane
MovieThe Guy Who Came Back
1951
as Kathy Joplin
MovieFather's Little Dividend
1951
as Ellie Banks
MovieFor Heaven's Sake
1950
as Lydia Bolton
TVThe Colgate Comedy Hour
1950
as Self
MovieFather of the Bride
1950
as Ellie Banks
Screen Actors
1950
as Self (uncredited)
TVYour Show of Shows
1950
TVWhat's My Line?
1950
as Self
MovieThe Reckless Moment
1949
as Lucia Harper
MovieHollow Triumph
1948
as Evelyn Hahn
MovieSecret Beyond the Door
1947
as Celia Lamphere
MovieThe Woman on the Beach
1947
as Peggy Butler
MovieThe Macomber Affair
1947
as Margaret Macomber
MovieColonel Effingham's Raid
1946
as Ella Sue Dozier
MovieScarlet Street
1945
as Katherine 'Kitty' March
MovieNob Hill
1945
as Harriet Carruthers
MovieThe Woman in the Window
1944
as Alice Reed
MovieMargin for Error
1943
as Sophia Baumer
MovieGirl Trouble
1942
as June Delaney
MovieHedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6
1942
as Herself
MovieTwin Beds
1942
as Julie Abbott
MovieThe Wife Takes a Flyer
1942
as Anita Woverman
MovieConfirm or Deny
1941
as Jennifer Carson
MovieWild Geese Calling
1941
as Sally Murdock
MovieMan Hunt
1941
as Jerry Stokes
MovieShe Knew All the Answers
1941
as Gloria Winters
MovieThe Son of Monte Cristo
1940
as Grand Duchess Zona of Lichtenburg
MovieThe Man I Married
1940
as Carol Hoffman
MovieThe House Across the Bay
1940
as Brenda Bentley
MovieGreen Hell
1940
as Stephanie Richardson
MovieThe Housekeeper's Daughter
1939
as Hilda
MovieThe Man in the Iron Mask
1939
as Princess Maria Theresa
MovieTrade Winds
1938
as Kay Kerrigan
MovieArtists and Models Abroad
1938
as Patricia Harper
MovieThe Texans
1938
as Ivy Preston
MovieI Met My Love Again
1938
as Julie Weir
MovieWalter Wanger's Vogues of 1938
1937
as Wendy Van Klettering
MovieHollywood Party
1937
as Herself
MovieWedding Present
1936
as Monica 'Rusty' Fleming
MovieTwo in a Crowd
1936
as Julia Wayne
MovieScreen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
1936
as Self
Movie13 Hours by Air
1936
as Felice Rollins
MovieBig Brown Eyes
1936
as Eve Fallon
MovieThe Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
1935
as Helen Berkeley
MovieThe Fashion Side of Hollywood
1935
as Self
MovieShe Couldn't Take It
1935
as Carol Van Dyke
MovieTwo for Tonight
1935
as Bobbie Lockwood
MoviePrivate Worlds
1935
as Sally MacGregor
MovieMississippi
1935
as Lucy
MovieThe Man Who Reclaimed His Head
1934
as Adele Verin
MovieThe Pursuit of Happiness
1934
as Prudence Kirkland
MovieLittle Women
1933
as Amy
MovieArizona to Broadway
1933
as Lynn Martin
MovieHollywood on Parade No. A-12
1933
as Self
MovieMe and My Gal
1932
as Helen Riley
MovieWild Girl
1932
as Salomy Jane
MovieWeek Ends Only
1932
as Venetia Carr
MovieThe Trial of Vivienne Ware
1932
as Vivienne Ware
MovieCareless Lady
1932
as Sally Brown
MovieShe Wanted a Millionaire
1932
as Jane Miller
MovieHush Money
1931
as Joan Gordon
MovieDoctors' Wives
1931
as Nina Wyndram Penning
MovieMany a Slip
1931
as Pat Coster
MovieScotland Yard
1930
as Xandra, Lady Lasher
MovieMaybe It's Love
1930
as Nan
MovieMoby Dick
1930
as Faith
MovieCrazy That Way
1930
as Ann Jordan
MoviePuttin' on the Ritz
1930
as Dolores Fenton
MovieThe Mississippi Gambler
1929
as Lucy Blackburn
MovieDisraeli
1929
as Lady Clarissa Pevensey
MovieThree Live Ghosts
1929
as Rose Gordon
MovieBulldog Drummond
1929
as Phyllis
MovieThe Divine Lady
1928
as Extra (uncredited)
MovieShow Folks
1928
as Night Club Patron (uncredited)
MoviePower
1928
as A Dame
MovieThe Eternal City
1923
as Page (uncredited)
MovieThe Valley of Decision
1916
as Unborn soul
