Joan Bennett

Joan Bennett was an American stage, film and television actress who lived from 1910 to 1990 and came from a long line of performers, being one of three acting sisters. She began on the stage and went on to appear in more than 70 films, from the silent era well into the sound era. Her screen career moved through three distinct phases: a blonde ingenue, a brunette femme fatale, and finally a warmhearted wife and mother. She is best remembered for the femme fatale parts she played for the director Fritz Lang in Man Hunt, The Woman in the Window and Scarlet Street, and for her television role as the matriarch Elizabeth Collins Stoddard in the gothic 1960s soap opera Dark Shadows, which earned her an Emmy nomination. Her last film role was Madame Blanc in Dario Argento's horror film Suspiria in 1977. Her career was also marked by a 1951 scandal involving her husband, the producer Walter Wanger.