Biography
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.
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Awards & recognition
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
Filmography37 titles
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
Armadillo
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Scarlet Street
Suspiria
The Woman in the Window
Dark Shadows
There's Always Tomorrow
We're No Angels
The Man in the Iron Mask
What's My Line?
Father of the Bride
Scotland Yard
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Man Hunt
Mississippi
The Reckless Moment
Little Women
House of Dark Shadows
Hollow Triumph
The Texans
Father's Little Dividend
Secret Beyond the Door...
Bulldog Drummond
Trade Winds
Me and My Gal
The Son of Monte Cristo
Big Brown Eyes
Wild Girl
Colonel Effingham's Raid
I Met My Love Again
The Man Who Reclaimed His Head
The House Across the Bay
Moby Dick
Maybe It's Love
Disraeli
Climax!