Joan Bennett
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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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Known For
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
General Electric Theater
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Climax!
DuPont Show of the Month
What's My Line?
Your Show of Shows
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Suspiria
House of Dark Shadows
We're No Angels
Private Worlds
Mississippi
Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6
Dark Shadows
The Texans
Artists and Models Abroad
Two for Tonight
13 Hours by Air
Too Young to Go Steady
Little Women
Big Brown Eyes
Dark Shadows: The Haunting of Collinwood
The Pursuit of Happiness
The Fashion Side of Hollywood
Father of the Bride
Wedding Present
Dark Shadows: The Vampire Curse
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