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Joan Bennett
Known for: ActingJoan 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joan Bennett, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Dark Shadows
as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard / Naomi Collins 
Suspiria
as Madame Blanc 
Scarlet Street
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as Katherine 'Kitty' March 
Father's Little Dividend
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as Ellie Banks 
We're No Angels
as Amelie Ducotel 
Secret Beyond the Door
as Celia Lamphere 
The Man in the Iron Mask
as Princess Maria Theresa 
Father of the Bride
as Ellie Banks 
The Woman in the Window
as Alice Reed 
Little Women
as Amy 
Hollow Triumph
as Evelyn Hahn 
There's Always Tomorrow
as Marion Groves 
The Reckless Moment
as Lucia Harper 
House of Dark Shadows
as Elizabeth Stoddard Collins 
Wild Girl
as Salomy Jane 
The Woman on the Beach
as Peggy Butler 
Highway Dragnet
as Mrs. Cummings 
Man Hunt
as Jerry Stokes 
The Son of Monte Cristo
as Grand Duchess Zona of Lichtenburg 
The House Across the Bay
as Brenda Bentley 
I Met My Love Again
as Julie Weir 
The Housekeeper's Daughter
as Hilda 
Me and My Gal
as Helen Riley 
Gidget Gets Married
as Claire Ramsey 
Disraeli
as Lady Clarissa Pevensey 
Colonel Effingham's Raid
as Ella Sue Dozier 
Moby Dick
as Faith 
Big Brown Eyes
as Eve Fallon 
The Divine Lady
as Extra (uncredited) 
Maybe It's Love
as Nan 
Bulldog Drummond
as Phyllis 
Mississippi
as Lucy