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Joan Geraldine Bennett (February 27, 1910 – December 7, 1990) was an American stage, film and television actress. Besides acting on the stage, Bennett appeared in more than 70 motion pictures from the era of silent movies, well into the sound era. She is possibly best-remembered for her film noir femme fatale roles in director Fritz Lang's movies such as ''The Woman in the Window'' (1944) and ''Scarlet Street'' (1945). Bennett had three distinct phases to her long and successful career, first as a winsome blonde ingenue, then as a sensuous brunette femme fatale (with looks that movie magazines often compared to those of Hedy Lamarr), and finally as a warmhearted wife/mother figure. In 1951, Bennett's screen career was marred by scandal after her third husband, film producer Walter Wanger, shot and injured her agent Jennings Lang. Wanger suspected that Lang and Bennett were having an affair,〔Erickson, Hal (Biography (AllMovie) )〕 a charge which she adamantly denied.〔 Bennett married four times. In the 1960s, she achieved success for her portrayal of Elizabeth Collins Stoddard on TV's ''Dark Shadows'', for which she received an Emmy nomination (1968). For her final movie role, as Madame Blanc in Dario Argento's cult horror film ''Suspiria'' (1977), she received a Saturn Award nomination. In her ''New York Times'' obituary she was said to be "...one of the most underrated actresses of her time". ==Early life== She was born in the Palisades section of Fort Lee, New Jersey,〔Staff. ("Actress Joan Bennett Dead At 80" ), Associated Press, December 10, 1990. Accessed December 12, 2013. "The actress, born in Fort Lee, N.J., made her 1928 debut in the Broadway play ''Jarnegan.''"〕 the third of three daughters of actor Richard Bennett and actress/literary agent Adrienne Morrison. Her older sisters were actress Constance Bennett and actress/dancer Barbara Bennett, who was the first wife of singer Morton Downey and the mother of Morton Downey, Jr. Part of a famous theatrical family, Bennett's maternal grandfather was Jamaica-born Shakespearean actor Lewis Morrison, who embarked on a stage career in the late 1860s. He was of English, Spanish, Jewish, and African ancestry.〔Downey, Phil, (A Black, Jewish Officer in the Civil War ), Jewish-American History Documentation Foundation. Retrieved May 8, 2013.〕 On the side of her maternal grandmother, actress Rose Wood, the profession dated back to traveling minstrels in 18th century England. Bennett first appeared in a silent movie as a child with her parents and sisters in her father's drama ''The Valley of Decision'' (1916), which he adapted for the screen. She attended Miss Hopkins School for Girls in Manhattan, then St. Margaret's, a boarding school in Waterbury, Connecticut, and L'Hermitage, a finishing school in Versailles, France. On September 15, 1926, 16 year old Bennett married John M. Fox in London. They were divorced on July 30, 1928 in Los Angeles, on charges of his alcoholism.〔''Los Angeles Times'', July 31, 1928, "Daughter Of Actor Divorced --- Joan Bennett Fox Wins Decree on Charges of Mate's Intoxication," p. A 20〕 They had one child, Adrienne Ralston Fox (born February 20, 1928), for whom Bennet fought successfully in court to rename Diana Bennett Markey, when the child was eight years old,〔''Los Angeles Times'', Aug. 22, 1936, "Wins Fight Over Daughter's Surname --- Child Given New Name --- Young Daughter Becomes Diana Markey Under Court Decision," p. 3〕 changed again to Diana Bennett Wanger in 1944.〔''Los Angeles Times'', Apr. 18, 1944, "Wanger Moves to Adopt Child of Joan Bennett," p. 2〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Joan Bennett」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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