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| Age: | 98 years old |
| Sex: | Female |
| Location: | Scarsdale, New York |
| Country: |  United States |
| Zodiac: |  Pisces (Feb 19 - Mar 20) |
| Last Login: | May 12, 2008 (604 days back) |
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| Get MySpace Layouts from nUCLEArcENTURy .COM OR create your own using MySpace profile editor !!! I'm Harold, and this is my tribute to classic film actress and DARK SHADOWS star Joan Bennett. As a child of the 1960's, I was one of the generation of school kids who ran home every day to watch DARK SHADOWS (1966-1971), the most popular daytime TV program of it's time. I didn't know it then, but the shows star, Joan Bennett, had been a bonafide movie star during Hollywood's Golden Era of the 1930's and 1940's. My parents were from that generation, and my Mom, in particular, enjoyed watching the films of that era on UHF television, and I right along with her. I came to love those classic movies and stars, none more so then Joan Bennett. This is my tribute to my favorite classic star. Joan Bennett, the youngest of three daughters, was born in Palisades Park, New Jersey, on February 27, 1910, the daughter of stage actors Richard Bennett and Adrienne Morrison, and the younger sister of actresses Constance and Barbara Bennett. Joan Bennett made her first film appearance in 1918 in an uncredited part and appeared in a few silent films while a child. She married at the age of 16, and when this marriage ended two years later, resumed her acting career. Contracted to 20th Century Fox she appeared as a blonde (her natural color) ingenue in a several films including BULLDOG DRUMMOND (1929) with Ronald Colman, MOBY DICK (1930) with John Barrymore and ME AND MY GAL (1932) with Spencer Tracy, before leaving this studio to appear in LITTLE WOMEN (1933) with Katharine Hepburn. She was not taken seriously as an actress and struggled to establish herself. Her task was further complicated by the rapid rise to fame of her sister Constance, who at this time was one of Hollywood's most successful and popular actresses, and with whom she was unfavourably compared. She signed a contract with producer Walter Wanger, whom she would later marry in 1940. He managed her career, and with director Tay Garnett convinced her to change her hair from blonde to brunette. With this change her screen persona evolved into that of a glamorous seductress and she began to attract attention. During the search to find an actress to play Scarlett O'Hara in GONE WITH THE WIND, Bennett was tested and impressed producer David O. Selznick. She was briefly considered to be a front runner for this part but Selznick eventually turned his attention to Paulette Goddard, who was then rejected in favour of Vivien Leigh. In the early 1940s Bennett appeared in four films directed by Fritz Lang. Three of them (MAN HUNT 1941, THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW 1944, and SCARLET STREET 1945) established her as a film noir femme fatale. She also worked with noted directors Jean Renoir in THE WOMAN ON THE BEACH (1947) and Max Ophüls in THE RECKLESS MOMENT (1949). She also played the wife of Spencer Tracy and mother of Elizabeth Taylor in FATHER OF THE BRIDE (1950) and its sequel, FATHER'S LITTLE DIVIDEND (1951). Midway through her career, Bennett had changed agents. In 1951 Wanger shot and injured Bennett's new agent, with whom she had begun an affair, and the resulting scandal damaged her career. Wanger spent two years in prison for the offense, but he and Bennett remained married until 1965. She continued to work steadily in theatre and television and was a cast member of the television series DARK SHADOWS for its entire five year run, from 1966 until 1971, receiving an Emmy Award nomination for her performance therein. Bennett also appeared in a few more films, most notably Dario Argento's SUSPERIA (1977). In the last decades of her life, she was married to David Wilde, a wealthy businessman. Bennett died from a heart attack in Scarsdale, New York at the age of 80, and was buried in Pleasant View Cemetery, Lyme, Connecticut. Bennett has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for services to Motion Pictures, at 6310 Hollywood Boulevard. |
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| Joan Bennett, the blond ingenue of the 1930's. Joan Bennett, the brunette seductress of the 1940's. Joan Bennett, the day time TV star of DARK SHADOWS in the 1960's. Joan Bennett's greatest film performances... As Kitty March, the tramp known as "Lazy Legs" in Fritz Lang's SCARLET STREET (1945)... ...And as Lucia Harper, the desperate housewife in Max Ophul's THE RECKLESS MOMENT (1949). |
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I'd like to meet:Joan Geraldine Bennett, born February 27, 1910 The Bennett Sisters; Constance, Joan and Barbara The Bennett family Joan Bennett, Goerge Arliss, Florence Arliss in DISRAELI 1929 Mr. & Mrs. Gene Markey 1932 Joan Bennett, Katharine Hepburn in LITTLE WOMEN 1933 Joan Bennett, Joel McCrea publicity photo for PRIVATE WORLDS 1935 Joan Bennett, Bing Crosby publicity photo for MISSISSIPPI 1935 Ronald Colman, Joan Bennett publicity photo for THE MAN WHO BROKE THE BANK AT MONTE CARLO 1935 Joan Bennett, Fred MacMurray publicity photo for 13 HOURS BY AIR 1936 Joan Bennett, Cary Grant publicity photo for BIG BROWN EYES 1936 Joel McCrea, Joan Bennett in TWO'S A CROWD 1936 Joan and Constance Bennett in the 1930's Henry Fonda, Joan Bennett publicity photo for I MET MY LOVE AGAIN 1938 Alan Marshal, Joan Bennett in I MET MY LOVE AGAIN 1938 Joan Bennett publicity photo for THE TEXANS 1938 Joan Bennett, Jack Benny publicity photo for ARTISTS AND MODELS ABROAD 1938 Joan Bennett turns brunette in TRADE WINDS 1938 Joan Bennett's screen test for Scarlet O'Hara in GONE WITH THE WIND Joan Bennett, Louis Hayward in THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK 1939 Joan Bennett publicity photo for GREEN HELL 1940 Gladys George, Joan Bennett in THE HOUSE ACROSS THE BAY 1940 Mr. & Mrs. Walter Wanger 1940 George Sanders, Joan Bennett in THE SON OF MONTE CRISTO 1940 Joan Bennett publicity photo for MAN HUNT 1941 Joan Bennett, Walter Pidgeon in MAN HUNT 1941 Henry Fonda,Joan Bennett in WILD GEESE CALLING 1941 Don Ameche, Joan Bennett publicity photo for CONFIRM OR DENY 1941 George Brent, Mischa Auer, Joan Bennett publicity photo for TWIN BEDS 1942 Franchot Tone, Joan Bennett in THE WIFE TAKES A FLYER 1942 Don Ameche, Joan Bennett in GIRL TROUBLE 1942 Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett in THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW 1944 Joan Bennett, George Raft publicity photo for NOB HILL 1945 DIANA PRODUCTIONS: Fritz Lang, Joan Bennett, Walter Wanger 1945 Joan Bennett publicity photo for SCARLET STREET 1945 Joan Bennett, Edward G. Robinson in SCARLET STREET 1945 Joan Bennett, Gregory Peck publicity photo for THE MACOMBER AFFAIR 1947 Joan Bennett's Hollywood home Michael Redgrave, Joan Bennett in SECRET BEYOND THE DOOR 1947 Charles Bickford, Joan Bennett, Robert Ryan in THE WOMAN ON THE BEACH 1947 James Mason, Joan Bennett in THE RECKLESS MOMENT 1949 Joan Bennett, Spencer Tracy in FATHER OF THE BRIDE 1950 Joan Bennett, Robert Cummings in FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE 1950 Paul Douglas, Joan Bennett in THE GUY WHO CAME BACK 1951 Joan Bennett, Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck in THERE'S ALWAYS TOMORROW 1956 Joan Bennett on DARK SHADOWS, 1960's Joan Bennett, Donald Briscoe, Roger Davis in HOUSE OF DARK SHADOWS 1970 Joan Bennett in the 1970's With husband David Wilde Joan Bennett in the 1980's |
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Movies:THE MISSISSIPPI GAMBLER 1929 WILD GIRL 1932 LITTLE WOMEN 1933 PRIVATE WORLDS 1935 SHE COULDN'T TAKE IT 1935 13 HOURS BY AIR 1936 BIG BROWN EYES 1936 WEDDING PRESENT 1936 VOGUES OF 1938 (1937) I MET MY LOVE AGAIN 1938 THE TEXANS 1938 THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK 1939 GREEN HELL 1940 THE HOUSE ACROSS THE BAY 1940 THE MAN I MARRIED 1940 MAN HUNT 1941 SHE KNEW ALL THE ANSWERS 1941 CONFIRM OR DENY 1941 TWIN BEDS 1942 GIRL TROUBLE 1942 THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW 1944 NOB HILL 1945 SCARLET STREET 1945 THE MACOMBER AFFAIR 1947 SECRET BEYOND THE DOOR 1947 THE WOMAN ON THE BEACH 1947 HOLLOW TRIUMPH (aka THE SCAR) 1948 THE RECKLESS MOMENT 1949 FATHER OF THE BRIDE 1950 FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE 1950 THE GUY WHO CAME BACK 1951 NAVY WIFE 1956 DESIRE IN THE DUST 1960 HOUSE OF DARK SHADOWS 1970 |
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Television:June 27, 1966, the first episode of DARK SHADOWS The cast of DARK SHADOWS 1967 |
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Books:THE BENNETT PLAYBILL by Joan Bennett & Lois Kibbee THE BENNETTS: AN ACTING FAMILY by Brian Kellow |
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| MaritalStatus: | Married |
| Children: | Proud parent |
| Occupation: | Actress |
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