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Joan Bennett
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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 mot…
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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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joan Bennett, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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2009
Dark Shadows: The Vampire Curse
Movie Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (archive footage)
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2009
Dark Shadows: The Haunting of Collinwood
Movie Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (archive footage)
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2001
Armadillo
TV show Father
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2001
Suspiria 25th Anniversary
Movie Self
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1988
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1987
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1987
Casting Shadows
Movie Self – Elizabeth Collins Stoddard
- 1986
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1982
Divorce Wars: A Love Story
Movie Adele Burgess
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1981
This House Possessed
Movie Rag Lady
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1978
Suddenly, Love
Movie Mrs. Graham
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1977
Suspiria
Movie Madame Blanc
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1972
The Eyes of Charles Sand
Movie Alexandria Sand
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1972
Gidget Gets Married
Movie Claire Ramsey
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1970
House of Dark Shadows
Movie Elizabeth Stoddard Collins
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1966
Dark Shadows
TV show Elizabeth Collins Stoddard / Naomi Collins
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1963
Burke's Law
TV show Denise Mitchell
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1962
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV show Self
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1961
The Mike Douglas Show
TV show Self
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1960
Desire in the Dust
Movie Mrs. Marquand
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1959
Too Young to Go Steady
TV show Mary Blake
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1957
DuPont Show of the Month
TV show Grace Graves
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1956
Navy Wife
Movie Peg Blain
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1956
There's Always Tomorrow
Movie Marion Groves
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1955
We're No Angels
Movie Amelie Ducotel
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1954
Climax!
TV show Honora
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1954
Highway Dragnet
Movie Mrs. Cummings
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1953
General Electric Theater
TV show Bettina Blane
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1951
The Guy Who Came Back
Movie Kathy Joplin
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1951
Father's Little Dividend
Movie Ellie Banks
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1950
For Heaven's Sake
Movie Lydia Bolton
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1950
The Colgate Comedy Hour
TV show Self
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1950
Father of the Bride
Movie Ellie Banks
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1950
Screen Actors
Movie Self (uncredited)
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1950
Your Show of Shows
TV show
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1950
What's My Line?
TV show Self
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1949
The Reckless Moment
Movie Lucia Harper
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1948
Hollow Triumph
Movie Evelyn Hahn
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1947
Secret Beyond the Door
Movie Celia Lamphere
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1947
The Woman on the Beach
Movie Peggy Butler
