Joan Bennett

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1910-02-27 (80 years old)

Deathday

1990-12-07

Place of Birth

Palisades, New Jersey, USA

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...

Acting

1947

Secret Beyond the Door

as Celia Lamphere

1978

Suddenly, Love

as Mrs. Graham

1950

Father of the Bride

as Ellie Banks

1955

We're No Angels

as Amelie Ducotel

1951

1941

Man Hunt

as Jerry Stokes

1948

Hollow Triumph

as Evelyn Hahn

1949

The Reckless Moment

as Lucia Harper

1947

The Macomber Affair

as Margaret Macomber

1943

Margin for Error

as Sophia Baumer

1947

The Woman on the Beach

as Peggy Butler

1956

There's Always Tomorrow

as Marion Groves

1939

The Man in the Iron Mask

as Princess Maria Theresa

1940

The House Across the Bay

as Brenda Bentley

1954

Highway Dragnet

as Mrs. Cummings

1945

Scarlet Street

as Katherine 'Kitty' March

1944

1933

1940

The Son of Monte Cristo

as Grand Duchess Zona of Lichtenburg

1929

1936

Wedding Present

as Monica 'Rusty' Fleming

1936

Big Brown Eyes

as Eve Fallon

1970

House of Dark Shadows

as Elizabeth Stoddard Collins

1929

Disraeli

as Lady Clarissa Pevensey

1932

Me and My Gal

as Helen Riley

1972

Gidget Gets Married

as Claire Ramsey

1941

Confirm or Deny

as Jennifer Carson

1930

Puttin' on the Ritz

as Dolores Fenton

1950

For Heaven's Sake

as Lydia Bolton

1935

Private Worlds

as Sally MacGregor

1938

The Texans

as Ivy Preston

1937

Vogues of 1938

as Wendy Van Klettering

1935

1930

1932

Wild Girl

as Salomy Jane

1940

Green Hell

as Stephanie Richardson

1934

The Pursuit of Happiness

as Prudence Kirkland

1933

Arizona to Broadway

as Lynn Martin

1938

Trade Winds

as Kay Kerrigan

1930

Moby Dick

as Faith

1940

The Man I Married

as Carol Hoffman

1938

I Met My Love Again

as Julie Weir

1929

Three Live Ghosts

as Rose Gordon

1935

Two for Tonight

as Bobbie Lockwood

1937

Hollywood Party

as Herself

1945

Nob Hill

as Harriet Carruthers

1938

Artists and Models Abroad

as Patricia Harper

1936

13 Hours by Air

as Felice Rollins

1935

She Couldn't Take It

as Carol Van Dyke

1930

Scotland Yard

as Xandra, Lady Lasher

1932

1932

1961

Hollywood: The Selznick Years

as 'Gone with the Wind' screen test (archive footage) (uncredited)

1981

1951

The Guy Who Came Back

as Kathy Joplin

1942

The Wife Takes a Flyer

as Anita Woverman

1923

The Eternal City

as Page (uncredited)

1936

Two in a Crowd

as Julia Wayne

1928

The Divine Lady

as Extra (uncredited)

1941

Wild Geese Calling

as Sally Murdock

1931

Doctors' Wives

as Nina Wyndram Penning

1932

Careless Lady

as Sally Brown

1942

Girl Trouble

as June Delaney

1982

1960

Desire in the Dust

as Mrs. Marquand

1941

She Knew All the Answers

as Gloria Winters

1932

Week Ends Only

as Venetia Carr

1956

Navy Wife

as Peg Blain

1929

The Mississippi Gambler

as Lucy Blackburn

1946

Colonel Effingham's Raid

as Ella Sue Dozier

1942

Twin Beds

as Julie Abbott

1928

Show Folks

as Night Club Patron (uncredited)

2009

Dark Shadows: The Vampire Curse

as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (archive footage)

1931

Hush Money

as Joan Gordon

2009

Dark Shadows: The Haunting of Collinwood

as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard

1988

1928

Power

as A Dame

1987

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

as Self (archive footage)

1916

1977

Suspiria

as Madame Blanc

1972

The Eyes of Charles Sand

as Alexandria Sand

1950

Screen Actors

as Self (uncredited)

1931

Many a Slip

as Pat Coster

1930

Crazy That Way

as Ann Jordan

1987

Casting Shadows

as Self – Elizabeth Collins Stoddard

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