Joan Bennett
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"Joan Geraldine Bennett" was an American stage, film and television actress. Besides acting on the theatre/stage, Bennett appeared in more than 70 film/motion pictures from the era of silent film/silent movies well into the sound film/sound era. She is possibly best-remembered for her film noir femme fatale role (performing arts)/roles in film director/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 (stock character)/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 talent agent/agent Jennings Lang. Wanger suspected that Lang and Bennett were having an affair, a charge which she adamantly denied.

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I might as well have pulled the trigger myself.

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It's really nice. Everything about it is so first class, ... When again would I get this opportunity, to go and bring back this much information. What I bring back to the students ... that's the best part.

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If only Vivien Leigh had stayed in England, that part would have been mine.

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I'm aware of the priceless privilege of having been born into the theater. Although it was a career I rejected at first, the profession has given me an incredibly varied life and more than my fair share of success, failure, love, laughter and despair. I've not a single regret for any of it.

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I turned my hair dark and have received much better parts ever since.

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It was wonderful. So many people came out, just genuinely wanting to support the program.

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I was greeted as Miss Lamarr in dimly lit restaurants. Personally, I liked the idea of escaping from all that bland, blonde innocence and thought the whole thing was very funny, but I don't think Hedy found the comparisons very amusing.

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