Joan Bennett
Born February 27, 1910 (Age: 116)
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Palisades, New Jersey, USA
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joan Bennett, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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
Suspiria
1977
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as Madame Blanc
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Age: 66
House of Dark Shadows
1970
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as Elizabeth Stoddard Collins
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Age: 60
Desire in the Dust
1960
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as Mrs. Marquand
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Age: 50
Navy Wife
1956
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as Peg Blain
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Age: 46
We're No Angels
1955
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as Amelie Ducotel
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Age: 45
Scarlet Street
1945
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as Katherine 'Kitty' March
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Age: 35
Girl Trouble
1942
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as June Delaney
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Age: 32
Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6
1942
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as Herself
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Age: 32
Twin Beds
1942
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as Julie Abbott
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Age: 32
The Wife Takes a Flyer
1942
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as Anita Woverman
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Age: 32
Confirm or Deny
1941
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as Jennifer Carson
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Age: 31
Wild Geese Calling
1941
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as Sally Murdock
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Age: 31
Man Hunt
1941
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as Jerry Stokes
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Age: 31
She Knew All the Answers
1941
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as Gloria Winters
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Age: 31
Me and My Gal
1932
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as Helen Riley
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Age: 22
Wild Girl
1932
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as Salomy Jane
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Age: 22
Week Ends Only
1932
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as Venetia Carr
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Age: 22
The Trial of Vivienne Ware
1932
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as Vivienne Ware
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Age: 22
Careless Lady
1932
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as Sally Brown
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Age: 22
She Wanted a Millionaire
1932
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as Jane Miller
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Age: 21
Hush Money
1931
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as Joan Gordon
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Age: 21
Many a Slip
1931
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as Pat Coster
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Age: 21