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Joan Rae Bennett of Australia. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Joan Rae Bennett.
Joan Bennett of Australia. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Joan Bennett.
Joan Awde Bennett of Australia. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Joan Awde Bennett.
Joan Joan Scott (Emond) Bennett of Geelong Australia. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Joan Emond Bennett.
Joan Joan (Wakefield) Bennett of Trar Australia. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Joan Wakefield Bennett.
Joan (Emond) Bennett of Liverpool Australia. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Joan (Emond) Bennett.
Joan Constance Mary Bennett of Australia. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Joan Constance Mary Bennett.
Joan Bennett
Born Joan Geraldine Bennett February 27, 1910
Fort Lee, New Jersey, U.S.
Died December 7, 1990 (aged 80) Scarsdale, New York, U.S. Pleasant View Cemetery, Lyme, Connecticut, U.S.
Nationality American Occupation Actress Years active 1916–1982
Spouse(s) John Marion Fox (m. 1926; div. 1928) Gene Markey (m. 1932; div. 1937) Walter Wanger (m. 1940; div. 1965)
David Wilde (m. 1978)
Children 4
Parent(s) Richard Bennett and Adrienne Morrison
Relatives Lewis Morrison (grandfather) Constance Bennett (sister) Barbara Bennett (sister) Morton Downey Jr. (nephew)
Joan Geraldine Bennett (February 27, 1910 – December 7, 1990) was an American stage, film, and television actress. She came from a show-business family, one of three acting sisters. Beginning her career on the stage, Bennett appeared in more than 70 films from the era of silent movies, well into the sound era. She is best remembered for her film noir femme fatale roles in director Fritz Lang's movies, including Man Hunt (1941), The Woman in the Window (1944), and Scarlet Street (1945), and for her television role as matriarch Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (and ancestors Naomi Collins, Judith Collins, and Flora Collins PT) in the gothic 1960’s soap opera Dark Shadows.
Bennett's career had three distinct phases: 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-and-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.Bennett married four times.
In the 1960s, she achieved success for her portrayal of Elizabeth Collins Stoddard on TV's gothic fan favorite, Dark Shadows, for which she received an Emmy nomination (1968). For her final movie role, as Madame Blanc in Dario Argento's cult horror film Suspiria (1977), she received a Saturn Award nomination. Her obituary in The New York Times stated she was "one of the most underrated actresses of her time."
Richard Bennett with his three daughters (from left), Constance, Joan, and Barbara (1918)
Joan Geraldine Bennett was born in the Palisade section of Fort Lee, New Jersey, on February 27, 1910, the youngest of three daughters of actor Richard Bennett and actress/literary agent Adrienne Morrison.[3] Her older sisters were actress Constance Bennett and actress/dancer Barbara Bennett, who was the first wife of singer Morton Downey and the mother of Morton Downey Jr. Part of a famous theatrical family, Bennett's maternal grandfather was Jamaica-born Shakespearean actor Lewis Morrison, who embarked on a stage career in the late 1860s. He was of English, Spanish, Jewish, and African ancestry. On the side of her maternal grandmother, actress Rose Wood, the profession dated back to traveling minstrels in 18th century England.
Bennett first appeared in a silent movie as a child with her parents and sisters in her father's drama The Valley of Decision (1916), which he adapted for the screen. She attended Miss Hopkins School for Girls in Manhattan, then St. Margaret's, a boarding school in Waterbury, Connecticut, and L'Hermitage, a finishing school in Versailles, France.
On September 15, 1926, 16-year-old Bennett married John M. Fox in London. They divorced July 30, 1928 in Los Angeles based on charges of his alcoholism. They had one child, Adrienne Ralston Fox (born February 20, 1928), for whom Bennett fought successfully in court to rename Diana Bennett Markey, when the child was eight years old. Her name changed to Diana Bennett Wanger in 1944.
Joan Scott (Scott) Bennett of Geelong Australia. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Joan Scott Bennett.
Joan Rowland Bennett of Palm Bay, Brevard County, FL was born on October 6, 1927, and died at age 79 years old on October 29, 2006. Joan Bennett was buried at Biloxi National Cemetery
Section 54 Site 703 P.o. Box 4968 - Pass Road, in Biloxi, Ms.
Joan Ellen Bennett of Newhall, Los Angeles County, CA was born on February 5, 1927, and died at age 76 years old on May 4, 2003. Joan Bennett was buried at Ft. Rosecrans National Cemetery
Section CBAA Row 3 Site 19 P.o. Box 6237, in San Diego.
Joan P Bennett of New York, New York County, NY was born on August 13, 1933, and died at age 68 years old on October 6, 2001. Joan Bennett was buried at Calverton National Cemetery
Section 14 Site 983 210 Princeton Boulevard - Rt 25, in Calverton.
Joan E Bennett of TX was born circa 1962. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Joan E. (Marshall) Bennett.
Joan Bennett of TX was born circa 1942. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Joan (Mcafee) Bennett.
Joan A Bennett of TX was born circa 1964. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Joan A. (Eddings) Bennett.
Joan P Bennett of Brazoria County, TX was born circa 1948. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Joan P. (Jempson) Bennett.
Joan C Bennett of TX was born circa 1953. Joan Bennett was married to Robert J. Bennett Jr on July 20, 1976 in Cooke County, TX. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Joan C. (Wiseman) Bennett.
Joan M Bennett of Brazoria County, TX was born circa 1952. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Joan M. (Matocha) Bennett.
Joan E Bennett of TX was born circa 1951. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Joan E. (Reed) Bennett.
Joan Bennett of TX was born circa 1946. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Joan (Clanton) Bennett.
Joan Bennett of TX was born circa 1952. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Joan (Mays) Bennett.
Joan E Bennett of Bergen County, New Jersey United States was born circa 1917. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Joan E Bennett.
Joan Margherita Bennett of Wend Australia was born in 1928, and died at age 26 years old in 1954 in Wend.
Joan Leslie Bennett of E Bwick Australia died in 1952 in E Bwick. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Joan Leslie Bennett.
Joan Lillian Bennett of Northcote Australia died in 1932 in Northcote. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Joan Lillian Bennett.
Joan Scott Bennett of Geelong Australia was born in 1858, and died at age 57 years old in 1915 in Geelong.
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