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  Joan Bennett - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Born in Palisades Park, New Jersey, Bennett was the youngest of 3 daughters of stage actors Richard Bennett and Adrienne Morrison, and was the younger sister of actresses Constance Bennett and Barbara Bennett (the mother of Morton Downey, Jr.
Joan Bennett and her siblings were also the grand-daughters of prominent stage actor Morris W. Morris.
Bennett died from a heart attack in Scarsdale, New York at the age of 80, and was buried in Pleasant View Cemetery, Lyme, Connecticut.
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 Joan Bennett Kennedy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Joan Bennett Kennedy was born September 9, 1936 in Riverdale, New York as Virginia Joan Bennett.
Ted and Joan were married on November 29, 1958, in Bronxville, New York.
In July 1969, while pregnant with another child after two miscarriages, Joan stood beside her husband in court a few days after a car he was driving plunged off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island, killing his young female passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne; she suffered a third miscarriage shortly thereafter.
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 Joan Bennett and Constance Bennett
Bennett was famous for having battles with critics of the day and wrote scathing letters not only when they panned his performances but when they praised them as well.
Joan Bennett never had any desire to become an actress, she wished only to be a wife and mother.
Joan married Jack Fox at the age of 16, became a mother at 17 and was divorced by the time she was 18 years old.
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 Dark Shadows Journal | Joan Bennett
The relationship was an unhappy one, which brought Joan a daughter, Adrienne, in 1928.
In 1951, Wanger shot Joan's agent in a jealous rage and the scandal that followed adversely affected her career.
Joan died of a heart attack on 7 December 1990, at her home in Scarsdale, New York.
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 Joan Bennett @ Filmbug
Joan Geraldine Bennett (February 27, 1910 - December 7, 1990) was an American film actress who also achieved success later in life as a television actress.
Born in Palisades, New Jersey, Bennett was the daughter of stage actors Richard Bennett and Adrienne Morrison, and was the younger sister of actresses Constance Bennett and Barbara Bennett.
Bennett died from a heart attack, in Scarsdale, New York and was buried in Pleasant View Cemetery, Lyme, Connecticut.
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 Denny Jackson's Joan Bennett Page
Joan Geraldine Bennett was born on February 27, 1910 in Palisades, New Jersey.
Joan's first film was one year later in a production called THE VALLEY OF DECISION, in which her father was the star and the entire Bennett participated.
Joan was to remain busy and popular throughout the remainder of the 1930's and into the 1940's.
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 Joan Bennett - Films as Actress:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Born: Joan Geraldine Bennett in Palisades, New Jersey, 27 February 1910; daughter of the actor Richard Bennett; sister of the actress Constance Bennett.
Joan Bennett, the youngest of the three acting daughters of prominent stage and screen star Richard Bennett, was the last of the sisters to enter films seriously, but she had the longest and, in retrospect, the most meaningful career of any of her family.
Bennett's career flourished in the 1940s not only because of her change of hair color but also because of her marriage to the prominent producer Walter Wanger.
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 Joan Bennett at Brian's Drive-In Theater
Born in New Jersey in 1910, glamorous actress Joan Bennett was the daughter of stage and screen actor Richard Bennett.
Bennett remained a brunette for the rest of her life and became one of the 1940s most popular film noir femme fatales.
Joan Bennett had no screen work for three years until she was approached by Roger Corman in 1954 to star as the villainous Mrs.
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 TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES
Joan Bennett (1910-1990) had three distinct phases to her long and successful career, first as a winsome blonde ing¿e, then as a brunette femme fatale and, finally, as a warm-hearted wife/mother figure.
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).
Bennett had a lively personal life, taking the first of three husbands at age 16, becoming a mother at 17 and a divorcee at 18.
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 Joan Bennett
The title of actress Joan Bennett's 1970 autobiography is The Bennett Playbill, in reference to the fact that she came from an old and well-established theatrical family: her father was stage star Richard Bennett and her sisters were screen actresses Constance and Barbara Bennett.
Though she made an appearance as a child in one of her father's films, Joan Bennett did not originally intend to pursue acting as a profession.
She was inexperienced and awkward and she knew it, but Bennett applied herself to her craft and improved rapidly; by the early '30s she was a busy and popular ingénue, appearing in such enjoyable programmers as Me and My Gal (1932) and important A-pictures like Little Women (1933) (as Amy).
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 The Stars of Dark Shadows: Where Are They Now? Joan Bennett
Joan was born into an acting family -- with theatrical roots dating back to the 1700s.
Although at first she was shy, and at times felt overshadowed by her glamorous older sister, Constance Bennett, Joan did gravitate toward the stage, making her debut a age 4 in one of her father's plays.
Joan was among the army of young actresses competing for the plum part of Scarlett O'Hara in 1939's Gone With the Wind-and was reportedly Vivian Leigh's first runner-up.
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 Joan Crawford Encyclopedia: B
Joan couldn't have been born only 6 months later, unless she was premature, which no source mentions.
While Joan was examining Black's mother's glass miniatures, Christopher punched her hard on the thigh, which prompted Joan to slap him on the cheek, sending him into a fit that gained everyone's attention.
Joan stars as "Anni," a cabaret singer masquerading as a society girl to land a rich man, in her 7th and final film with husband Franchot Tone.
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 Constance Bennett: Hollywood Renegade
Constance Bennett was another independent producer who made films at the General Service Studio, released through United Artists, and maintained a SIMPP membership.
Bennett was an industry veteran with experience as an actor that went back to the days of Lewis J. Selznick, the father of Myron and David O. Selznick.
Her younger sister Joan Bennett married Walter Wanger in 1940, making Constance the sister-in-law of the SIMPP founder.
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 joan bennett
James Quirk called Joan Bennett one of the most underrated actresses of the 1940s.
Bennett seemed to take her fame with a grain of salt, citing only six films of which she genuinely felt proud.
Nevertheless, Joan Bennett is an actress who gave us some of her finest and most interesting performances during Hollywood's Golden Age.
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 Joan Bennett Selective Bibliography Reference Works
This entry includes personal information about Bennett, as well as her principal film, theatre, and television appearances.
"Joan Bennett." Who's Who in the Theatre, 17th ed.
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www.acsu.buffalo.edu /~mlzafron/bennettref.html   (96 words)

  
 Joan Bennett   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
It is not intended to be comprehensive, but will point you to selected materials about her career and life.
Primarily a film actress, Joan Bennett is best known today for her roles in several significant film noirs such as Scarlet Street, The Reckless Moment, and The Woman in the Window, as well as for a role in the gothic television soap opera, Dark Shadows.
The book provides a well-researched, objective, and detailed look at Joan Bennett, her sisters Constance and Barbara, and their father, Richard.
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 hoDS History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
There are other classic ladies of the screen who have been nominated for the title of "most durable star," but a sure contender is Joan Bennett, whose active career has spanned an incredible four decades.
Now Dark Shadows is a film called house of Dark Shadows, the first ever made from a "daytime television drama," and Joan Bennett has yet another title to add to the impressive roster that includes Little Women, The Macomber Affair, Woman in the Window, There's Always Tomorrow and Father of the Bride.
But I did it." And still is doing it, not to mention the double duty of making house of Dark Shadows, during the filming of which she shuttled from TV set to film location in Tarrytown on a schedule that would have made a teenager blench.
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 eBay - joan bennett, Movie Memorabilia, DVD, HD DVD Blu-ray items on eBay.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Joan Bennett, 40's movie star, signed magazine photo
NOB HILL - George Raft, Joan Bennett and Vivian Blaine
JOAN BENNETT color magazine photo from 1930's scrapbook
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 Silent Era: People: Actresses: Joan Bennett
Daughter of actor Richard Bennett and actress Adrienne Morrison; sister of actress Constance Bennett and actress Barbara Bennett.
Married John Marion Fox at St. Luke’s Church in London, England, United Kingdom, 15 September 1926; mother of Adrienne Ralston Fox, born 20 February 1928; divorced August 1928.
Joan Bennett’s first stage appearance was in the stage production of Damaged Goods, starring her father Richard Bennett, at Chicago in 1914.
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 Joan Bennett
Bennett began her film career as a demure blonde ingenue (e.g.
Raoul Walsh's delightful "Me and My Gal" (1932), though, did give her an offbeat chance to indulge in sharp wisecracking.
Early on her acting abilities seemed a bit modest, but Bennett's warm speaking voice and quietly piquant charm gave her considerable appeal as a screen personality....
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 Joan Bennett Trivia -- notstarring.com
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 Joan Bennett Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
Joan Bennett Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
by Mark D. Bennett, Joan McIver Gibson, Ph.D. How individuals, groups, and organizations can learn to make better decisions--driven by their values, informed by dialogue, and communicated with clarity
This new book from the author of "Dot to Dot in the Sky: Stories of the Stars" is a unique astronomy resource designed for parents and children to use together.
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 Joan Bennett (I)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
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 IMDb Name Search   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
A search for "Joan Bennett" found the following results:
John Bennett (I) (Actor, The Fifth Element (1997))
John Bennett (V) (Visual Effects, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001))
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 Joan Bennett Bio, News and Movie Credits - RopeofSilicon.com
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