What is Joan Bennett?
{{complex|date=October 2024}} {{Infobox actor | name = Joan Bennett | image = Joan Bennett in The Woman in the Window trailer.jpg | imagesize = | caption = from the trailer for ''The Woman in the Window'' (1944) | birthname = Joan Geraldine Bennett | birth_date = {{birth date|1910|2|27}} | birth_place = Palisades Park, New Jersey | death_date = {{Death date and age|1990|12|7|1910|2|27}} | death_place = Scarsdale, New York | yearsactive = 1916–1982 | spouse = John Marion Fox (1926–1928)<br>Gene Markey (1932–1937)<br>Walter Wanger (1940–1965)<br>David Wilde (1978–1990) }} '''Joan Geraldine Bennett''' (February 27, 1910 – December 7, 1990) was an [[Emmy]]-nominated [[Americans|American]] [[movie]] [[actor|actress]] who appeared in more than 70 Hollywood movies from the silent era to talkies, from color to the advent of television and epic movies. She may be best known and loved for her [[film noir|film noir movies]] femme fatale roles in movies by director [[Fritz Lang]]. ==Biography== Joan Bennett had three distinct phases to her long and successful career, first as a winsome blonde ingenue, then as a brunette femme fatale and, finally, as a warm-hearted wife/mother figure. ===Early life=== Born in Palisades, N.J., she was part of a famous theatrical family with a lineage dating back to traveling minstrels in 18th century England. Her father was actor Richard Bennett, her mother, actress Adrienne Morrison, and her sisters, actress Constance Bennett and dancer, Barbara Bennett. Joan first acted onstage with her father at age 18 and by 19 had become a movie star courtesy of her roles in such movies as ''Bulldog Drummond'' (1929) and ''Disraeli'' (1929). She moved quickly from movie to movie throughout the 1930s, appearing with John Barrymore in his version of ''Moby Dick'' (1930) and playing Amy to [[Katharine Hepburn]]'s Jo in ''Little Women'' (1933). Of the three Bennett sisters, Joan would achieve the greatest fame. ===Career=== [[Image:Joan Bennett in Little Women 1933.JPG|left|200px|thumb|in the movie ''[[Li