Joan Bennett
American actress (1910-1990) · United States · On the map · Actors · Died at 80
Joan Geraldine Bennett was an American stage, film, and television actress, one of three acting sisters from a show-business family. Beginning her career on the stage, Bennett appeared in more than 70 films from the era of silent films, well into the sound era.
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SuspiriaFilm, Madame Blanc1970
House of Dark ShadowsFilm, Elizabeth Stoddard Collins1966
Dark ShadowsSeries, Elizabeth Collins Stoddard / Naomi Collins1963
Burke's LawSeries, Denise Mitchell1962
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny CarsonSeries1961
The Mike Douglas ShowSeries1959Too Young to Go SteadySeries, Mary Blake1957
DuPont Show of the MonthSeries, Grace Graves1955
We're No AngelsFilm, Amelie Ducotel1954
Climax!Series, Honora1953
General Electric TheaterSeries, Bettina Blane1951
Father's Little DividendFilm, Ellie Banks1950
The Colgate Comedy HourSeries1949
The Reckless MomentFilm, Lucia Harper1947
Secret Beyond the DoorFilm, Celia Lamphere1941
Man HuntFilm, Jerry Stokes1939
The Man in the Iron MaskFilm, Princess Maria Theresa1937
Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938Film, Wendy Van Klettering1935
MississippiFilm, Lucy1933
Little WomenFilm, Amy1930
Moby DickFilm, Faith1928
The Divine LadyFilm, Extra (uncredited)1910Born27 February 1910People around Joan
Fritz Lang Directed Scarlet Street (1945)
Raoul Walsh Directed Me and My Gal and Big Brown Eyes
William Fox Produced Me and My Gal (1932)
Richard Wallace Directed Wedding Present (1936)- Edward Small Produced The Man in the Iron Mask (1939)
B. P. Schulberg Produced She Couldn't Take It (1935)
Irving Pichel Directed The Man I Married (1940)
Montagu Love Also in The Divine Lady and Bulldog Drummond
George Cukor Directed Little Women and I Met My Love Again
Vincente Minnelli Directed Father of the Bride (1950)
Dario Argento Directed Suspiria and The Three Mothers
Darryl F. Zanuck Produced The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo (1935)
James Whale Directed The Man in the Iron Mask and Green Hell
Nunnally Johnson Produced The Woman in the Window (1945)
Archie Mayo Directed Confirm or Deny (1941)
Alfred Edward Green Directed Disraeli and Two in a Crowd
Carl Laemmle Jr. Produced The Man Who Reclaimed His Head (1934)
Dennis O'Keefe Also in Mississippi and Vogues of 1938
Tay Garnett Directed She Couldn't Take It and Trade Winds
Alan Baxter Also in Thirteen Hours by Air (1936)
William K. Howard Directed Scotland Yard (1930)
Pandro S. Berman Produced Father of the Bride (1950)
Heinz Eric Roemheld Wrote Private Worlds and There's Always Tomorrow
Ralph Block Produced Scotland Yard and Power
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Scarlet Street 1945
Suspiria 1977
The Woman in the Window 1944
There's Always Tomorrow 1956
We're No Angels 1955
Also in Deutsch
Filmography 40
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Television 12
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Richard Bennett with his three daughters (from left), Constance, Joan, and Barbara (c. 1913)
Bennett in the trailer for Disraeli (1929)
Bennett in the trailer for Little Women (1933)
Bennett in the trailer for The Woman in the Window (1944)
Bennett in Scarlet Street (1945)
Bennett's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6300 Hollywood Blvd
Bennett in the trailer for Father's Little Dividend (1951)Awards
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She is best remembered for her film noir femme fatale roles in director Fritz Lang's films - including Man Hunt (1941), The Woman in the Window (1944), and Scarlet Street (1945) - and for her television role as matriarch Elizabeth Collins Stoddard in the gothic 1960s soap opera Dark Shadows, for which she was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Daytime Programming at the 20th Primetime Emmy Awards in 1968.
