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Joan Bennett
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 Win…
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entertainment · American actress (1910–1990) · actor · stage actor · film actor · television actor · radio personality · also Joan Bennett, Bennett
Born 27 February 1910 · Died 7 December 1990 · Q128944
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2026· 5 entries
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1990· 1 entry
Died 1990-12-07.
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1978· 1 entry
13 days before her 68th birthday, in White Plains, New York
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1970· 1 entry
Appeared as Elizabeth in House of Dark Shadows, the feature film adaptation of the series
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1968· 1 entry
For her performance as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard, mistress of the haunted Collinwood Mansion
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1958· 1 entry
Appeared as Mary Blake, the mother to teenagers Pam (Brigid Bazlen) and Johnny (Martin Huston) in the short-lived television comedy/drama Too Young to Go Steady
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1951· 2 entries
Including an episode of Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca's Your Show of Shows
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Bennett's screen career was marred by scandal after her third husband, film producer Walter Wanger, shot and injured her agent Jennings Lang
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1949· 1 entry
Bennett became a grandmother at age 39
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1944· 1 entry
After her mother married Walter Wanger in 1940
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1940· 1 entry
Bennett and producer Walter Wanger were married in Phoenix, Arizona
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1932· 1 entry
Married screenwriter/film producer Gene Markey in Los Angeles, but the couple divorced in Los Angeles on June 3, 1937
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1926· 1 entry
16-year-old Bennett married John M
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1910· 2 entries
Born 1910-02-27.
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The youngest of three daughters of actor Richard Bennett and actress/literary agent Adrienne Morrison
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