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Joan Bennett

American actress
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Joan Geraldine Bennett
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Feb. 27, 1910, Palisades, N.J., U.S.
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Dec. 7, 1990, Scarsdale, N.Y. (aged 80)
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Joan Bennett (born Feb. 27, 1910, Palisades, N.J., U.S.—died Dec. 7, 1990, Scarsdale, N.Y.) was a versatile American film actress. The daughter of actor Richard Bennett and sister of actresses Constance and Barbara Bennett, Joan Bennett began her film career at the age of 19. Among the most notable of her many roles during the 1930s were as a wisecracking waitress in Me and My Gal (1932); as Amy, the youngest sister in Little Women (1933); and as a woman slipping into mental illness in Private Worlds (1935). At the suggestion of producer Walter Wanger, her third husband, she changed ...(100 of 206 words)

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