
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.
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Suspiria
1977 · as Madame Blanc

Father of the Bride
1950 · as Ellie Banks

Little Women
1933 · as Amy

Girl Trouble
1942 · as June Delaney

Scarlet Street
1945 · as Katherine 'Kitty' March

Hollywood Party
1937 · as Herself

Green Hell
1940 · as Stephanie Richardson

The Woman in the Window
1944 · as Alice Reed

Wild Girl
1932 · as Salomy Jane

Man Hunt
1941 · as Jerry Stokes

There's Always Tomorrow
1956 · as Marion Groves

Disraeli
1929 · as Lady Clarissa Pevensey

Twin Beds
1942 · as Julie Abbott

Father's Little Dividend
1951 · as Ellie Banks

We're No Angels
1955 · as Amelie Ducotel

The Man in the Iron Mask
1939 · as Princess Maria Theresa

Secret Beyond the Door
1947 · as Celia Lamphere

Two in a Crowd
1936 · as Julia Wayne