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Joan Bennett
Actor
Died December 7, 1990 (80 years)
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
| 2009 | Dark Shadows: The Vampire Curse · as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (archive footage) |
| 2009 | Dark Shadows: The Haunting of Collinwood · as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard |
| 2001 | Amélie · as Ellie Banks |
| 1985 | Dario Argento's World of Horror · as Madame Blanc |
| 1981 | This House Possessed · as Rag Lady |
| 1977 | Suspiria · as Madame Blanc |
| 1976 | America at the Movies · as Ellie Banks |
| 1972 | Gidget Gets Married · as Claire Ramsey |
| 1971 | Police Surgeon (1971) (TV Series) · as Cortessa |
| 1970 | House of Dark Shadows · as Elizabeth Stoddard Collins |
| 1969 | Love, American Style (TV Series) · as Edith (segment "Love and the Second Time") |
| 1966 | Dark Shadows (TV Series) · as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard |
| 1955 | We're No Angels · as Amelie Ducotel |
| 1954 | Climax! (TV Series) · as Honora |
| 1953 | General Electric Theater (TV Series) · as Bettina Blane |
| 1951 | Father's Little Dividend · as Ellie Banks |
| 1950 | Father of the Bride · as Ellie Banks |
| 1950 | The Colgate Comedy Hour (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1949 | The Reckless Moment · as Lucia Harper |
| 1948 | Hollow Triumph · as Evelyn Hahn |
| 1947 | Secret Beyond the Door... · as Celia Lamphere |
| 1947 | The Woman on the Beach · as Peggy Butler |
| 1946 | Colonel Effingham's Raid · as Ella Sue Dozier |
| 1945 | Scarlet Street · as Katharine 'Kitty' March |
| 1944 | The Woman in the Window · as Alice Reed |
| 1941 | Confirm or Deny · as Jennifer Carson |
| 1941 | Man Hunt · as Jerry Stokes |
| 1940 | The House Across the Bay · as Brenda Bentley |
| 1940 | The Son of Monte Cristo · as Grand Duchess Zona of Lichtenburg |
| 1939 | The Man in the Iron Mask · as Princess Maria Theresa |
| 1939 | The Housekeeper's Daughter · as Hilda |
| 1938 | Trade Winds · as Kay Kerrigan |
| 1938 | I Met My Love Again · as Julie Weir |
| 1936 | Wedding Present · as Monica 'Rusty' Fleming |
| 1933 | Little Women · as Amy |
| 1932 | Me and My Gal · as Helen Riley |
| 1931 | Doctors' Wives · as Nina Wyndram Penning |
| 1930 | Moby Dick · as Faith |
| 1930 | Scotland Yard · as Xandra, Lady Lasher |
| 1929 | Bulldog Drummond · as Phyllis |