Overview

Know for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
27 Feb, 1910 (115 years old)

Joan Bennett

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.

Known For

Gidget Gets Married
HD
73 min 1972

Gidget Gets Married

TV Movie
Dark Shadows
HD
1966

Dark Shadows

Drama
There's Always Tomorrow
HD
84 min 1956

There's Always Tomorrow

Drama
Highway Dragnet
HD
70 min 1954

Highway Dragnet

Crime
Father's Little Dividend
HD
82 min 1951

Father's Little Dividend

Romance
Father of the Bride
HD
92 min 1950

Father of the Bride

Comedy

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