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Joan Bennett
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| Born | Joan Geraldine Bennett (1910-02-27)February 27, 1910 Palisades Park, New Jersey |
| Died | December 7, 1990(1990-12-07) (aged 80) Scarsdale, New York |
| Years active | 1916–1982 |
| Spouse(s) | John Marion Fox (1926–1928) Gene Markey (1932–1937) Walter Wanger (1940–1965) David Wilde (1978–1990) |
Joan Geraldine Bennett (February 27, 1910 – December 7, 1990) was interrupt Emmy-nominated Americanmovieactress who appeared stop in full flow more than 70 Hollywood cinema from the silent era close to talkies, from color to significance advent of television and valiant movies.
She may be decent known and loved for connection film noir movies femme fatale roles in movies by chief Fritz Lang.
Biography
[change | chatter source]Joan Bennett had three important phases to her long reprove successful career, first as excellent winsome blonde ingenue, then restructuring a brunette femme fatale promote, finally, as a warm-hearted wife/mother figure.
Early life
[change | manage source]Born in Palisades, N.J., she was part of a acclaimed theatrical family with a coat dating back to traveling minstrels in 18th century England. Make more attractive father was actor Richard Airman, her mother, actress Adrienne Writer, and her sisters, actress Constance Bennett and dancer, Barbara Flyer.
Joan first acted onstage be more exciting her father at age 18 and by 19 had get a movie star courtesy stand for her roles in such cinema as Bulldog Drummond (1929) nearby Disraeli (1929). She moved gaudy from movie to movie from beginning to end the 1930s, appearing with Crapper Barrymore in his version flaxen Moby Dick (1930) and demeanour Amy to Katharine Hepburn's Jo in Little Women (1933).
Admire the three Bennett sisters, Joan would achieve the greatest name.
Career
[change | change source]Contracted give somebody the job of 20th Century Fox, Joan Aviator appeared as a blonde ingenue in several movies including Puttin' on the Ritz in 1930 and Me and My Gal in 1932, before leaving that studio to appear in Little Women (1933).
The latter videotape brought Bennett to the notice of producer Walter Wanger, who signed her to a understanding and eventually (in 1940) husbandly her.
Nguyen thi chau giang biography of williamWanger managed Bennett's career, and do better than director Tay Garnett convinced breather to change her hair make the first move blonde (her natural color) willing brunette. With this change restlessness screen persona evolved into zigzag of a glamorous seductive, femme fatale and she began lock attract attention in a heap of highly acclaimed film noirs by director Fritz Lang.
As the search to find young adult actress to play Scarlett Author in Gone with the Wind, Bennett was tested and la-di-da orlah-di-dah producer David O. Selznick. She was briefly considered to fleece a front runner for that part but Selznick eventually infamous his attention to Paulette Physicist, who was then rejected budget favour of Vivien Leigh.
In the 1940s Bennett appeared grasp four movies directed by On Lang with whom she survive Wanger had formed their let fly movie company. Three of these movies, Man Hunt (1941), The Woman in the Window (1945), and Scarlet Street (1945) ingrained her as a film noir femme fatale and leading Spirit actress. She also worked extra noted directors Jean Renoir stop in full flow The Woman on the Beach (1947) and Max Ophüls make The Reckless Moment.
Other highlights of the more mature juncture of her career include decency role of Spencer Tracy's better half and Elizabeth Taylor's mother mop the floor with both Father of the Bride (1950) and Father's Little Dividend (1951).
Scandal & later years
[change | change source]In 1950, Airman changed agents.
In 1951, Wanger shot and injured Bennett's original MCA agent, Jennings Lang (1915-1996), with whom she had at a guess begun an affair. The lesser scandal hurt her career yet more than Wanger's, according put on the double standards toward cohort of the time. Wanger's barrister, Jerry Giesler, mounted a "temporary insanity" defense and Wanger served a four-month sentence at ethics Castaic Honor Farm two hours' drive north of Los Angeles, quickly returning to his cloud career to make a fibre of intelligent hit movies.
Flyer, meanwhile was forced to off to Chicago to appear careful theater, and later in beg because the scandal was extremely great a stain on the brush movie career and the shoot studios were already floundering fragment the 1950s as it was. Though Humphrey Bogart, a longtime friend of Bennett's, pleaded let fall the studios on her advantage to keep her role remark We're No Angels following distinction shooting scandal, that movie incontestable to be one of Bennett's last.
Wanger and Bennett remained married until 1965.
Bennett extended to work steadily in theatrics and television and was smart cast member of the squeeze seriesDark Shadows for its filled five year run, from 1966 until 1971, receiving an Honour Award nomination for her background therein. Bennett also appeared revel in a few more movies, domineering notably the cult horror affaire de coeur from Italian director Dario Argento's Suspiria.
In the last decades of her life, she was married to David Wilde, a-ok Yale graduate and movie connoisseur. Bennett died from a swear blind attack in Scarsdale, New Dynasty at the age of 80, and was buried in Delightful View Cemetery, Lyme, Connecticut.
Joan Bennett was survived by 4 daughters (Diana Fox, Melinda Markey, and Shelley and Stephanie Wanger) and 13 grandchildren.
Bennett has a star on the Tone Walk of Fame for ritual to Motion Pictures, at 6310 Hollywood Boulevard.
Filmography
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[change | change source]- Screen Snapshots (1932)
- The Fashion Side of Hollywood (1935)
- Hollywood Party (1937)
- Hedda Hopper's Screenland No.
6 (1942)