Joan Bennett

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.

Filmography in the catalog

Credited on 76 films (1929–1977) — matched by name in the Creator or Credits field. Also mentioned in 8 other records (descriptions, transcriptions, copyright notes).

Year ▲ Title CreatorLengthFormatColorSound
1942 Twin Beds. Tim Whelan 83 min. B&W
1943 Margin for error Otto Preminger 74 min B&W
1943 Margin For Error. Otto Preminger 6691 ft. B&W
1944 The Woman In The Window. Fritz Lang 99 min. B&W
1945 Colonel Effingham's Raid. Irving Pichel 6 360 ft. B&W
1945 Nob Hill. Henry Hathaway 8 500 ft. Color
1945 Scarlet Street ▶ D. W. Griffith 1:16:24 B&W sound
1945 Scarlet street. ▶ Diana production 11 reels. 16mm B&W sound
1947 The Macomber affair. Award Productions Inc. 89 min. 16mm B&W sound
1947 The Woman on the Beach Jean Renoir 71 Color & B&W
1947 The Woman On The Beach. Jean Renoir 71 min. 35mm B&W sound
1948 Hollow Triumph. Steve Sekely 83 min. 35mm B&W sound
1948 Secret Beyond The Door. Fritz Lang 98 min. 35mm B&W sound
1949 The Reckless Moment Columbia Pictures Corporation 82 min B&W
1950 Father of the bride Vincente Minnelli 92 min Color & B&W
1950 Father Of The Bride. Loew's Inc. 93 min. 35mm B&W sound
1950 For Heaven’s Sake. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp 92 min. 35mm B&W sound
1950 Screen Actors ▶ Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences 8:42 16mm B&W sound
1951 Father’s Little Dividend. Loew's Inc. 81 min. 35mm B&W sound
1951 The Guy Who Came Back. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp 91 min. 35mm B&W sound
1954 Highway dragnet. Allied Artists Pictures Corp. 70 min. 35mm B&W sound
1955 There’s Always Tomorrow. Universal Pictures Co. Inc. 84 min. 35mm B&W sound
1955 We’re No Angels. Paramount Pictures Corp. 103 min 35mm Color sound
1956 NAVY WIFE. Allied Artists Pictures Corp. 83 min. 35mm B&W sound
1960 Desire In The Dust. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp 102 min 35mm B&W sound
1977 Suspiria SEDA Spettacoli, S.P.A 98 min Color sound