Joan Bennett
American actress (1910–1990)
Joan Geraldine Bennett 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 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.
Films
Other known for
- Bulldog Drummond (1929)
- Dark Shadows
- Disraeli (1929)
- Father of the Bride (1950)
- Father's Little Dividend (1951)
- Little Women (1933)
- Man Hunt (1941)
- Private Worlds (1935)
- Scarlet Street (1945)
- Secret Beyond the Door (1947)
- Suspiria (1977)
- The Divine Lady (1929)
- The Reckless Moment (1949)
- The Woman in the Window (1944)
- The Woman on the Beach (1947)
- We're No Angels (1955)