Joan Bennett

Actor Feb 27 (died age 80) Palisades, New Jersey, USA 1916–2009 (93 year career)

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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 winso…

Known For

Film

Suspiria

Madame Blanc

Film

Scarlet Street

Katherine 'Kitty' March

Film

The Woman in the Window

Alice Reed

Film

We're No Angels

Amelie Ducotel

Film

Father of the Bride

Ellie Banks

Film

Little Women

Amy

Film

Man Hunt

Jerry Stokes

Film

The Reckless Moment

Lucia Harper

Filmography

Acting (105)

Movies (93)

Dark Shadows: The Vampire Curse

2009

as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (archive footage)

9.5

Dark Shadows: The Haunting of Collinwood

2009

as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (archive footage)

9.4

Suspiria 25th Anniversary

2001

as Self

6.4

The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind

1988

as Self (archive footage)

8.0

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

1987

as Self (archive footage)

6.0

Casting Shadows

1987

as Self – Elizabeth Collins Stoddard

The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn

1986

as Self

8.0

Divorce Wars: A Love Story

as Adele Burgess

This House Possessed

as Rag Lady

Suddenly, Love

as Mrs. Graham

Suspiria

as Madame Blanc

Gidget Gets Married

as Claire Ramsey

The Eyes of Charles Sand

1972

as Alexandria Sand

5.3

House of Dark Shadows

1970

as Elizabeth Stoddard Collins

6.5

Desire in the Dust

1960

as Mrs. Marquand

3.3

There's Always Tomorrow

1956

as Marion Groves

7.2

Navy Wife

1956

as Peg Blain

We're No Angels

as Amelie Ducotel

Highway Dragnet

as Mrs. Cummings

Father's Little Dividend

1951

as Ellie Banks

6.5

The Guy Who Came Back

as Kathy Joplin

Father of the Bride

as Ellie Banks

Screen Actors

as Self (uncredited)

For Heaven's Sake

as Lydia Bolton

The Reckless Moment

as Lucia Harper

Hollow Triumph

as Evelyn Hahn

Secret Beyond the Door

1947

as Celia Lamphere

6.5

The Woman on the Beach

as Peggy Butler

The Macomber Affair

as Margaret Macomber

Colonel Effingham's Raid

1946

as Ella Sue Dozier

5.7

Scarlet Street

1945

as Katherine 'Kitty' March

7.6

Nob Hill

1945

as Harriet Carruthers

5.7

The Woman in the Window

as Alice Reed

Margin for Error

as Sophia Baumer

Twin Beds

as Julie Abbott

Girl Trouble

as June Delaney

Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6

1942

as Herself

6.0

The Wife Takes a Flyer

1942

as Anita Woverman

4.5

She Knew All the Answers

as Gloria Winters

Man Hunt

as Jerry Stokes

Confirm or Deny

as Jennifer Carson

Wild Geese Calling

as Sally Murdock

Green Hell

as Stephanie Richardson

4.0

The Man I Married

1940

as Carol Hoffman

6.0

The Son of Monte Cristo

1940

as Grand Duchess Zona of Lichtenburg

5.9

The House Across the Bay

1940

as Brenda Bentley

5.5

The Man in the Iron Mask

1939

as Princess Maria Theresa

7.1

The Housekeeper's Daughter

as Hilda

The Texans

as Ivy Preston

I Met My Love Again

as Julie Weir

Trade Winds

as Kay Kerrigan

Artists and Models Abroad

1938

as Patricia Harper

4.2

Vogues of 1938

1937

as Wendy Van Klettering

Hollywood Party

as Herself

Two in a Crowd

as Julia Wayne

Big Brown Eyes

1936

as Eve Fallon

6.3

Wedding Present

1936

as Monica 'Rusty' Fleming

6.5

Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)

as Self

13 Hours by Air

as Felice Rollins

Two for Tonight

as Bobbie Lockwood

The Fashion Side of Hollywood

as Self

Mississippi

as Lucy

Private Worlds

as Sally MacGregor

She Couldn't Take It

as Carol Van Dyke

The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo

1935

as Helen Berkeley

6.3

The Pursuit of Happiness

1934

as Prudence Kirkland

5.8

The Man Who Reclaimed His Head

as Adele Verin

Little Women

as Amy

Hollywood on Parade No. A-12

1933

as Self

Arizona to Broadway

1933

as Lynn Martin

7.0

The Trial of Vivienne Ware

1932

as Vivienne Ware

Wild Girl

as Salomy Jane

Careless Lady

as Sally Brown

Me and My Gal

as Helen Riley

She Wanted a Millionaire

1932

as Jane Miller

Week Ends Only

1932

as Venetia Carr

Hush Money

1931

as Joan Gordon

Many a Slip

1931

as Pat Coster

Doctors' Wives

1931

as Nina Wyndram Penning

Scotland Yard

1930

as Xandra, Lady Lasher

Moby Dick

as Faith

Puttin' on the Ritz

as Dolores Fenton

Maybe It's Love

as Nan

Crazy That Way

as Ann Jordan

Three Live Ghosts

1929

as Rose Gordon

Disraeli

1929

as Lady Clarissa Pevensey

5.1

Bulldog Drummond

1929

as Phyllis

6.5

The Mississippi Gambler

1929

as Lucy Blackburn

The Divine Lady

1928

as Extra (uncredited)

5.2

Show Folks

1928

as Night Club Patron (uncredited)

Power

as A Dame

The Eternal City

as Page (uncredited)

The Valley of Decision

1916

as Unborn soul

Television (12)

Armadillo

2001

as Father

Dark Shadows

1966

as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard / Naomi Collins

7.2

Burke's Law

1963

as Denise Mitchell

6.0

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

1962

as Self

7.4

The Mike Douglas Show

1961

as Self

5.4

Too Young to Go Steady

1959

as Mary Blake

DuPont Show of the Month

as Grace Graves

Climax!

as Honora

General Electric Theater

as Bettina Blane

What's My Line?

as Self

The Colgate Comedy Hour

as Self

Your Show of Shows