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Joan Bennett: Father's Little Dividend
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In the early 1940s Bennett appeared in four films directed by Fritz Lang. Three of them (Man Hunt, The Woman in the Window, and Scarlet Street) established her as a film noir femme fatale. She ... worked with noted directors Jean Renoir in The Woman on the Beach and Max Ophüls in The Reckless Moment. Bennett also played the wife of Spencer Tracy and mother of Elizabeth Taylor in Father of the Bride (1950) and its sequel, Father's Little Dividend (1951).
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The second phase of the Bennett career reached its apex in the mid-1940s, when she played deadly dames for director Fritz Lang in The Woman in the Window (1945), Scarlet Street (1945) and The Woman on the Beach (1947). Highlights of the more mature phase of her career include the role of Spencer Tracy's wife and Elizabeth Taylor's mother in both Father of the Bride (1950) and Father's Little Dividend (1951). Later in her career Bennett enjoyed success in the TV series Dark Shadows and in the cult horror thriller from Italian director Dario Argento, Suspiria (1977).
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Aan het begin van de jaren '40 was Bennett in vier films van Fritz Lang te zien. Drie van die films maakten van Bennett een film noir femme fatale. Daarnaast was ze ook te zien in films van Jean Renoir en Max Ophüls, twee memorabele regisseurs. Bennett speelde tevens de vrouw van Spencer Tracy en moeder van Elizabeth Taylor in Father of the Bride (1950) en het vervolg, Father's Little Dividend (1951).
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