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American actress (1910–1990)

Person · Open Library

Works
25

Top works

  • Five Metaphysical Poets
  • Adventure of Melby Jo and Bruno Bunny
  • Woodland Christmas Celebration
  • Birthday Tea Party
  • Poetry and interpretation

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Film & TV

Acting · Palisades, New Jersey, USA

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…

Known for

  • Dark Shadows: The Vampire Curse — Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (archive footage)2009
  • Dark Shadows: The Haunting of Collinwood — Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (archive footage)2009
  • Suspiria 25th Anniversary — Self2001
  • Armadillo — Father2001
  • The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind — Self (archive footage)1988
  • James Stewart: A Wonderful Life — Self (archive footage)1987
  • Casting Shadows — Self – Elizabeth Collins Stoddard1987
  • The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn — Self1986
  • Divorce Wars: A Love Story — Adele Burgess1982
  • This House Possessed — Rag Lady1981

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
US
Active from
1926-08-03
Active to
2023-07-21

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Listeners
174
Total plays
1,329

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Quotes

  • Few people remember good women. They don't forget bad girls.
  • I don't think much of most of the films I made, but being a movie star was something I liked very much.

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Key facts

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.
Resting place
Pleasant View Cemetery, Lyme, Connecticut , U.S.
Occupation
Actress
Years active
1916–1982
Parent s
Richard Bennett , Adrienne Morrison
Relatives
Lewis Morrison (grandfather), Constance Bennett (sister), Barbara Bennett (sister), Lorinda Roland (niece), Morton Downey Jr. (nephew)

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Joan Bennett Portrait Still.jpg
Number of children
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date of birth
1910-02-27
date of death
1990-12-07
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birth name
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end of work period
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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, and Flora Collins in various timelines) in the gothic 1960s soap opera Dark Shadows, for which she was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Daytime Programming at the 20th Primetime Emmy Awards 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.

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