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Joan Bennett: Dark Shadows
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In an interview in her lush-but-comfortable apartment on Manhattan's East Side (the living room dominated by paintings, including the famous Woman in the Window portrait), Joan talked about her doubts when first approached for Dark Shadows on television. "It was the pace that worried me. Learning all those lines on just one day's show. 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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In the 1960s, Bennett made a big comeback portraying the matriarch Elizabeth Collins Stoddard on the 1966-1971 gothic horror soap opera Dark Shadows. After the show left the air, Bennett went into semi-retiremnt, working infrequently until finally calling it a day in the early 1980s. Sadly, Joan Bennett passed away in 1990 at the age of 80.
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Spring Byington is wonderful as mother to the March daughters, while Frances Dee, Jean Parker, and Joan Bennett are uniformly excellent in the respective roles of Meg, Beth, and Amy, the sisters whom Jo so dearly loves. Douglass Montgomery is superb as Laurie, Jo's best friend, though his painted lips and shadowed eyelids are a bit anachronistic and a style holdover from the silent screen era.
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