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Joan Bennett

Joan Bennett
Joan Bennett 1938.jpg
Bennett ca. 1938
Born Joan Geraldine Bennett
(1910-02-27)February 27, 1910
Fort Lee, New Jersey, U.S.
Died December 7, 1990(1990-12-07) (aged 80)
Scarsdale, New York, U.S.
Cause of death Heart attack
Resting place Pleasant View Cemetery, Lyme, Connecticut
Occupation Actress
Years active 1916–1982
Spouse(s) John Marion Fox
(m. 1926; div. 1928)
1 child
Gene Markey
(m. 1932; div. 1937)
1 child
Walter Wanger
(m. 1940; div. 1965)
2 children
David Wilde
(m. 1978)

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 , 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. Bennett married four times.

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 (1968). For her final movie role, as Madame Blanc in Dario Argento's cult horror film Suspiria (1977), she received a Saturn Award nomination. In her New York Times obituary she was said to be "... one of the most underrated actresses of her time".

She was born in the Palisades section of Fort Lee, New Jersey, the third of three daughters of actor Richard Bennett and actress/literary agent Adrienne Morrison. Her older sisters were actress Constance Bennett and actress/dancer Barbara Bennett, who was the first wife of singer Morton Downey and the mother of Morton Downey, Jr.


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