Joan Bennett

JOAN BENNETT d1990. American stage, film and television actress who appeared in more than 70 motion pictures from the era of silent to sound. Best-remembered for her roles in The Woman In The Window (1940) and Scarlett Street (1945). 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 had been having an affair, a charge which she adamantly denied. She died of a heart attack aged 80 in 1990.