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Joan Bennett
(1910-1990)
American actress
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Joan Geraldine Bennett (February 27, 1910 – December 7, 1990) 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 (and ancestors Naomi Collins, Judith Collins Trask, and Flora Collins in various timelines) 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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Born Joan Geraldine Bennett
27 February 1910
Palisades, New Jersey USA
Died
7 December 1990 (aged 80)
Scarsdale, New York, USA
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  • Adrienne Ralston
    Adrienne Ralston info 1st child with John Marion Fox Female b. 20 Feb 1928 Age: 97 1928- Celebrity Baby
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  • Melinda Markey
    Melinda Mary Markey info 2nd child with Gene Markey Female b. 27 Feb 1934 Age: 91 1934- American, Actress
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    Stephanie info 3rd child with Walter Wanger Female b. 26 May 1943 Age: 82 1943- Celebrity Baby
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    Shelley info 4th child with Walter Wanger Female b. 4 Jul 1948 Age: 77 1948- Celebrity Baby
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Adrienne Morrison and Richard Bennett · m. 1903; div. 1925

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  • Lillian Gish
    Lillian Gish · Friend · 1893-1993 · American actress edit info
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  • Alexander Hall
    Alexander Hall · Friend · 1894-1968 · American film director edit info
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  • Travis Banton
    Travis Banton · Friend · 1894-1958 · American fashion designer edit info
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  • John Decker
    John Decker · Friend · 1895-1947 · American cartoonist edit info
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  • Lela Bliss
    Lela Bliss · Friend · 1896-1980 · American actress edit info
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  • Alfred Hitchcock
    Alfred Hitchcock · Friend · 1899-1980 · British, Film Director edit info
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  • Humphrey Bogart
    Humphrey Bogart · Friend · 1899-1957 · American actor edit info
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  • Spencer Tracy
    Spencer Tracy · Friend · 1900-1967 · American actor edit info
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  • Charles Farrell
    Charles Farrell · Friend · 1900-1990 · American actor (1900/1901-1990) edit info
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  • John Steinbeck
    John Steinbeck · Friend · 1902-1968 · American writer edit info
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  • David O. Selznick
    David O. Selznick · Friend · 1902-1965 · American film producer edit info
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    William Goetz · Friend · 1903-1969 · American film producer edit info
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    Claudette Colbert · Friend · 1903-1996 · American actress edit info
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  • Charles K. Feldman
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  • Myrna Loy
    Myrna Loy · Friend · 1905-1993 · American actress edit info
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  • Joan Blondell
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  • Irene Mayer Selznick
    Irene Mayer Selznick · Friend · 1907-1990 · American theatre producer edit info
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  • Don Ameche
    Don Ameche · Friend · 1908-1993 · American actor edit info
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  • Ann Sothern
    Ann Sothern · Friend · 1909-2001 · Actress edit info
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  • James Mason
    James Mason · Friend · 1909-1984 · English actor edit info
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  • Jean Howard
    Jean Howard · Friend · 1910-2000 · American actress edit info
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    Merle Oberon · Friend · 1911-1979 · British actress edit info
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  • Edward Lasker
    Edward Lasker · Friend · 1912-1997 · American businessman and racehorse owner edit info
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  • Maria Montez
    Maria Montez · Friend · 1912-1951 · Dominican, Actress edit info
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    Elaine Anderson · Friend · 1914-2003 · American actress and stage manager edit info
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  • Hedy Lamarr
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  • Betty Furness
    Betty Furness · Friend · 1916-1994 · American actress, consumer advocate, and special assistant to the president edit info
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    Robert Merrill · Friend · 1917-2004 · Opera singer edit info
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  • Joan Fontaine
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