Joan Bennett
Joan Bennett ( born February 27, 1910 in Palisades, New Jersey, † December 7, 1990 in Scarsdale, New York ) was an American actress.
Life and career
Bennett comes from a family of actors, which can be traced back to the 18th century. Her parents were in their earliest youth constantly, so Joan Bennett grew up on theater tour across the USA with close friends of the family. At age four, she stood for the first time on stage. A year later, she was first seen in a movie. From 1928 it is then worked exclusively as a film actress and competed with her sister Constance Bennett.
She was initially at First National under contract and often played roles that were rejected by Loretta Young ( Moby Dick, Disraeli ). Later, under contract with Fox, she was often seen at the side of the young Spencer Tracy. 1933 Joan Bennett appeared alongside Katharine Hepburn in the classic four sisters. The career got a boost but only from 1934, when she was put under contract at Paramount. Besides Bing Crosby and W. C. Fields played in Mississippi, next to Claudette Colbert, Charles Boyer, and Joel McCrea in senior physician Dr. Monet. Her talent for light comedies she stood next to Cary Grant in Wedding Present and Big brown eyes, both in 1936, to the test.
In 1938, the actress got a lot of publicity when they sign up for the film Tradewinds brunette her blond hair, let a là Hedy Lamarr, color and retained this look ( inklusvive parted in the middle ) to the end of the raceway. 1939 belonged to Miss Bennett 's closest contenders for the role of " Scarlett O'Hara " Gone with the wind. Only her and Paulette Goddard colored screen test for the role were made. In the end, Vivien Leigh got the part.
After her then- husband, producer Walter Wanger of 1952 her lover gunned down on the doorstep, this scandal affected her career sustainable and she played her last major film role in 1956 in Douglas Sirk's There 's Always Tomorrow. In 1966, Miss Bennett, however, was known in the U.S. through their involvement in the television series Dark Shadows to a wide audience than ever before. In the long -running family saga, in which the survivors make contact with all forms of undead, she was seen in a supporting role until 1971 and participated in 1970 in the accompanying movie palace of the vampires. The series was very popular and set the style for a whole genre.
Joan Bennett was married four times and had from the first three marriages four daughters. When she died in 1990, she was thirteen- fold grandmother.