Joan Bennett
Joan Geraldine Bennett (February 27, 1910 – December 7, 1990) 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. 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 (and ancestors Naomi Collins, Judith Collins Trask, Flora Collins, Flora Collins PT, and Elizabeth Collins Stoddard PT) in the gothic 1960s soap opera ''Dark Shadows'', for which she received an Emmy nomination in 1968.Bennett's career had three distinct phases: 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-and-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 she and Lang were having an affair, a charge which she adamantly denied. She married four times.
For her final film role, as Madame Blanc in Dario Argento's cult horror film ''Suspiria'' (1977), she received a Saturn Award nomination. Provided by Wikipedia
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Dark shadows. a Dan Curtis production.
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The woman in the window / International Pictures, Inc. presents a Nunnally Johnson production ; produced and written for the screen by Nunnally Johnson ; directed by Fritz Lang.
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The house across the bay / a Walter Wanger production ; directed by Archie Mayo ; screenplay by Myles Connolly and Kathryn Scola.
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The reckless moment / Columbia Pictures Corporation ; screen play by Henry Garson, Robert W. Soderberg ; adaptation by Mel Dinelli, Robert E. Kent ; produced by Walter Wanger ; directed by Max Ophuls.
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Man hunt / Twentieth Century Fox ; screenplay by Dudley Nichols ; produced and directed by Fritz Lang. by Newman, Alfred, 1901-1970
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Little women / Radio Pictures ; directed by George Cukor ; screenplay by Sarah Y. Mason & Victor Heerman.
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Scarlet Street ; The stranger.
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Little women / Radio Pictures presents ; by Louisa M. Alcott ; executive producer, Merian C. Cooper ; directed by George Cukor ; screen play by Sarah Y. Mason & Victor Heerman.
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Father of the bride / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; produced by Loew's Incorporated ; screen play by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett ; produced by Pandro S. Berman ; directed by Vincente Minnelli. by Deutsch, Adolph, 1897-1980
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Classic Western round-up. Universal Studios.
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