Joan Bennett

Born: 1910-02-27

Joan Geraldine Bennett (February 27, 1910 – December 7, 1990) was an American stage, film and television actress. Besides acting on the stage, Bennett appeared in more than 70 motion pictures from the era of silent movies well into the sound era. She is possibly best-remembered for her film noir femme fatale roles in 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, 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 agent Jennings Lang. Wanger suspected that Lang and Bennett were having an affair, a charge which she adamantly denied. In the 1960s, she achieved success for her portrayal of Elizabeth Collins Stoddard on TV's Dark Shadows, for which she received an Emmy nomination. For her final movie role, as Madame Blanc in Suspiria (1977), she received a Saturn Award nomination. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joan Bennett, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


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Suspiria

as Madame Blanc
Released: 1977-02-01

An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is...

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We're No Angels

as Amelie Ducotel
Released: 1955-07-07

Three convicts escape from prison on Devil's Island just before Christmas and arrive at a nearby...

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Scarlet Street

as Katherine 'Kitty' March
Released: 1945-12-25

Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful...

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The Woman in the Window

as Alice Reed
Released: 1944-10-25

A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.

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The Son of Monte Cristo

as Grand Duchess Zona of Lichtenburg
Released: 1940-12-05

Rightful owner of the kingdom, the Duchess of Zona, is engaged in a power struggle with the evil...

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Father of the Bride

as Ellie Banks
Released: 1950-05-18

Proud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she...

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The Man in the Iron Mask

as Princess Maria Theresa
Released: 1939-07-13

Tyrannical King Louis XIV learns that he has an identical twin brother, Philippe, who was raised...

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Little Women

as Amy
Released: 1933-11-24

Little Women is a coming-of-age drama tracing the lives of four sisters: Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy....

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Father's Little Dividend

as Ellie Banks
Released: 1951-04-05

Newly married Kay Dunstan announces that she and her husband are having a baby, leaving her...

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Man Hunt

as Jerry Stokes
Released: 1941-06-13

Shortly before the start of WW2, renown British big-game hunter Thorndike vacationing in Bavaria...

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Secret Beyond the Door...

as Celia Lamphere
Released: 1947-12-24

After a whirlwind romance in Mexico, a beautiful heiress marries a man she barely knows with...

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Hollow Triumph

as Evelyn Hahn
Released: 1948-08-18

Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity—with unfortunate...

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House of Dark Shadows

as Elizabeth Stoddard Collins
Released: 1970-09-09

The story of vampire Barnabas Collins, the possible cure offered him by Dr. Julia Hoffman, and...

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The Reckless Moment

as Lucia Harper
Released: 1949-12-09

After discovering the dead body of her teenage daughter's lover, a housewife takes desperate...

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The Woman on the Beach

as Peggy Butler
Released: 1947-06-07

A sailor suffering from post-traumatic stress becomes involved with a beautiful and enigmatic...

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Suddenly, Love

as Mrs. Graham
Released: 1978-12-04

Young lovers — she's a child of the ghetto, determined to escape her alcoholic, bickering...

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James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1988-11-22

Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life.

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There's Always Tomorrow

as Marion Groves
Released: 1956-01-08

When a toy manufacturer feels ignored and unappreciated by his wife and children, he begins to...

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Vogues of 1938

as Wendy Van Klettering
Released: 1937-08-18

An early Technicolor musical that concentrates on the fashions of the late 1930s, this film was...

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Private Worlds

as Sally MacGregor
Released: 1935-04-19

At the Brentwood Asylum for the mentally ill, psychiatrist partners Jane Everest and Alex...

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The Divine Lady

as Extra (uncredited)
Released: 1928-12-26

Lady Hamilton's love affair with Admiral Horatio Nelson rocks the British Empire.

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The Macomber Affair

as Margaret Macomber
Released: 1947-04-20

A big-game hunter takes a rich American couple on an African safari. Film adaptation of Ernest...

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The Texans

as Ivy Preston
Released: 1938-08-12

After the Civil War, an ex-Confederate soldier faces new battles, including the elements and a...

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The Eternal City

as Page (uncredited)
Released: 1923-12-17

War drama - Fitzmaurice was able to film King Victor Emmanuel III and Benito Mussolini reviewing...

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The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn

as Self
Released: 1986-03-09

In this tribute to her frequent co-star and longtime love, Katharine Hepburn hosts a...

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Green Hell

as Stephanie Richardson
Released: 1940-01-26

A group of adventurers head deep into South American jungle in search of an ancient Incan treasure.

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Me and My Gal

as Helen Riley
Released: 1932-12-04

Jaunty young policeman Danny Dolan falls in love with waterfront cafe waitress Helen Riley.

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Suspiria 25th Anniversary

as Self
Released: 2001-09-11

Documentary about the shooting of 'Suspiria' that details everything that lovers of horror genre...

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Highway Dragnet

as Mrs. Cummings
Released: 1954-01-20

An ex-Marine, on the lam from a murder charge, hitches a ride with a glamour-magazine...

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I Met My Love Again

as Julie Weir
Released: 1938-01-14

In Vermont, college student Ives Towner refuses to marry his longtime girlfriend, Julie Weir,...

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Margin for Error

as Sophia Baumer
Released: 1943-02-10

When police officer Moe Finkelstein and his colleague Officer Salomon are ordered to serve as...

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The Pursuit of Happiness

as Prudence Kirkland
Released: 1934-09-27

Lederer is a Hessian soldier who defects to the Americans during the Revolutionary War.He falls...

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Twin Beds

as Julie Abbott
Released: 1942-04-30

Mike Abbott just wants to spend a quiet evening at home with his wife, but her collection of...

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She Knew All the Answers

as Gloria Winters
Released: 1941-05-13

Chorus girl and rich playboy want to marry but he'll lose his fortune unless his trustee...

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The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1988-10-01

This documentary revisits the making of Gone with the Wind via archival footage, screen tests,...

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Doctors' Wives

as Nina Wyndram Penning
Released: 1931-03-14

The trials of being a doctor's wife are presented in this drama. The story centers upon the...

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The Housekeeper's Daughter

as Hilda
Released: 1939-10-26

A mobster's moll leads a newsman, cub reporter and photographer to a scoop.

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Maybe It's Love

as Nan
Released: 1930-10-04

A very young Joan Bennett tops the cast as Nan Sheffield, the daughter of a college president....

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Wedding Present

as Monica 'Rusty' Fleming
Released: 1936-10-09

Charlie Mason and Rusty Fleming are star reporters on a Chicago tabloid who are romantically...

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13 Hours by Air

as Felice Rollins
Released: 1936-04-30

Womanizer and airline pilot Jack Gordon must fly the world's fastest airliner from New York to...

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The House Across the Bay

as Brenda Bentley
Released: 1940-03-01

Nightclub owner Steve Larwitt sees his empire of investments collapse as he faces tax evasion...

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Divorce Wars: A Love Story

as Adele Burgess
Released: 1982-03-01

Successful divorce lawyer Jack Sturgess discovers that his own marriage is falling apart and...

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Arizona to Broadway

as Lynn Martin
Released: 1933-07-22

A team of con men trying to double-cross a woman they are supposedly helping to get some stolen...

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Big Brown Eyes

as Eve Fallon
Released: 1936-04-03

Sassy manicurist Eve Fallon is recruited as an even more brassy reporter and she helps police...

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Wild Girl

as Salomy Jane
Released: 1932-11-09

Salomy Jane, a California mountain girl, is sought after by a number of men in the nearby small...

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Hollywood: The Selznick Years

as 'Gone with the Wind' screen test (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: 1961-12-31

Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O....

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The Man I Married

as Carol Hoffman
Released: 1940-08-09

An American vacations in Europe with her husband and watches him turn into a Nazi.

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Dark Shadows: The Haunting of Collinwood

as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard
Released: 2009-09-15

Dark Shadows: The Haunting of Collinwood is a DVD compilation of episodes 639 to 694, key scenes...

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Bulldog Drummond

as Phyllis
Released: 1929-05-02

Bulldog Drummond is a British WWI veteran who longs for some excitement after he returns to the...

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Dark Shadows: The Vampire Curse

as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (archive footage)
Released: 2009-09-15

This compilation of select episodes from the vintage gothic TV drama "Dark Shadows" reveals the...

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For Heaven's Sake

as Lydia Bolton
Released: 1950-12-15

An angel takes on human form in order to persuade a theatrical couple to finally consummate...

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Disraeli

as Lady Clarissa Pevensey
Released: 1929-11-01

Prime Minister of Great Britain Benjamin Disraeli outwits the subterfuge of the Russians and...

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Colonel Effingham's Raid

as Ella Sue Dozier
Released: 1946-01-24

The story takes place in 1940. On the eve of America's entry in World War II, a colonel retired...

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Two in a Crowd

as Julia Wayne
Released: 1936-10-03

When two halves of a thousand-dollar bill are discovered in the snow, the penniless pair that...

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Power

as A Dame
Released: 1928-09-23

Tale of a pair of dam workers who, despite their strong friendship, duke it out on a regular...

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Desire in the Dust

as Mrs. Marquand
Released: 1960-10-10

Lonnie Wilson returns to small southern hometown after spending six years on the chain-gang for...

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The Eyes of Charles Sand

as Alexandria Sand
Released: 1972-02-29

A young man inherits the ability to see visions beyond the grave.

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The Trial of Vivienne Ware

as Vivienne Ware
Released: 1932-05-01

Vivienne Ware is defended by her ex-beau when she's accused of killing her faithless fiance.

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Gidget Gets Married

as Claire Ramsey
Released: 1972-01-04

Gidget finally gets married and rebels against the social caste system in her new husband's company.

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The Wife Takes a Flyer

as Anita Woverman
Released: 1942-04-28

Christopher Reynolds, an American flying with the R.A.F, is shot down over German-occupied...

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Mississippi

as Lucy
Released: 1935-03-22

A young pacifist after refusing on principle to defend her sweetheart's honor and being banished...

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The Guy Who Came Back

as Kathy Joplin
Released: 1951-08-16

Former football star Harry Joplin is down on his luck, both in his career and in his married...

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Moby Dick

as Faith
Released: 1930-09-20

Herman Melville's mad Capt. Ahab (John Barrymore) spends years hunting the white whale that got...

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This House Possessed

as Rag Lady
Released: 1981-02-06

A sinister force permeating a secluded mountain estate convinces the nurse/companion of rock...

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Trade Winds

as Kay Kerrigan
Released: 1938-12-28

After committing a murder, Kay assumes a new identity and boards a ship. But, Kay is unaware...

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She Wanted a Millionaire

as Jane Miller
Released: 1932-02-21

Impoverished Jane Miller is loved by millionaire Roger and newspaperman William. Though William...

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Many a Slip

as Pat Coster
Released: 1931-03-02

Comedy centering on the question of whether a man's wife is or isn't pregnant.

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Nob Hill

as Harriet Carruthers
Released: 1945-06-13

A Barbary Coast saloon owner hopes to marry his way into San Francisco's high society. Directed...

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Wild Geese Calling

as Sally Murdock
Released: 1941-08-15

In the 1890s lumberjack John leaves Seattle for Alaska to look for gold. After he marries...

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The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo

as Helen Berkeley
Released: 1935-11-14

A Russian prince goes to Monte Carlo just after World War I with money supplied to him by...

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Hollywood Party

as Herself
Released: 1937-04-03

Elissa Landi and Charley Chase host an East Asian themed garden tea party in Hollywood. After...

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Show Folks

as Night Club Patron (uncredited)
Released: 1928-10-20

Eddie Kehoe is a young vaudeville hoofer who thinks his inability to hit the big time is the...

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The Man Who Reclaimed His Head

as Adele Verin
Released: 1934-12-24

A writer discovers he's being used as a pawn by greedy businessmen.

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The Fashion Side of Hollywood

as Self
Released: 1935-11-04

Compilation of lighting and costume tests from various films, most notably Sternberg's "The...

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Puttin' on the Ritz

as Dolores Fenton
Released: 1930-02-19

A vaudeville and nightclub performer becomes successful and forgets who his friends really are.

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The Mississippi Gambler

as Lucy Blackburn
Released: 1929-11-03

He was a handsome gambler, living by his wits; yet when he played for the biggest stake of his...

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Girl Trouble

as June Delaney
Released: 1942-10-09

A South American in New York rents the apartment of a socialite who pretends to be his maid.

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She Couldn't Take It

as Carol Van Dyke
Released: 1935-10-08

The wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the...

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Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6

as Herself
Released: 1942-10-05

Narrator Hopper covers two war benefit affairs, a garden party and a USO fashion show, at...

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Artists and Models Abroad

as Patricia Harper
Released: 1938-12-20

Buck Boswell and his all-girl troupe are stranded in Paris, but Buck manages to con the manager...

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Confirm or Deny

as Jennifer Carson
Released: 1941-12-12

Newsman Mitch and teletype operator Jennifer, whose job is to see he doesn't send inappropriate...

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Three Live Ghosts

as Rose Gordon
Released: 1929-09-15

An investigator is asking Mrs. Gubbins about a William Foster, who was a friend of her stepson...

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Hush Money

as Joan Gordon
Released: 1931-07-05

Story of a girl who tries to live down the past and marries a wealthy man. Blackmail attempt by...

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Week Ends Only

as Venetia Carr
Released: 1932-06-19

A recently impoverished but formerly wealthy young woman ends up working as a nightclub hostess....

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Crazy That Way

as Ann Jordan
Released: 1930-03-20

Young heiress Ann Jordan and her fiancè Frank Oakes would be happy except for the constant...

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The Valley of Decision

as Unborn soul
Released: 1916-12-04

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Two for Tonight

as Bobbie Lockwood
Released: 1935-09-12

A songwriter has to come up with a full-length theatrical piece within a few days.

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Navy Wife

as Peg Blain
Released: 1956-05-20

Japanese women, seeng how well American soldiers stationed in their country treat their wives,...

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Scotland Yard

as Xandra, Lady Lasher
Released: 1930-10-19

A criminal fleeing a bank robbery has a chance encounter with a banker and his wife and takes a...

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Film Stars Help Greece

as Self
Released:

Hollywood holds a star-studded event, all proceeds went to Greece.

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Careless Lady

as Sally Brown
Released: 1932-04-02

Innocent Sally Brown thinks men are only attracted to experienced women, so she poses as the...

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The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

as Self
First aired: 1962-10-01

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight...

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Dark Shadows

as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard / Naomi Collins
First aired: 1966-06-27

Dark Shadows is an American gothic soap opera that originally aired weekdays on the ABC...

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Climax!

as Honora
First aired: 1954-10-07

Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was...

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What's My Line?

as Self - Mystery Guest
First aired: 1950-02-02

Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while...

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Burke's Law

as Denise Mitchell
First aired: 1963-09-20

Burke's Law is an American detective series that ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on...

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The Colgate Comedy Hour

as Self
First aired: 1950-09-10

The Colgate Comedy Hour is an American comedy-musical variety series that aired live on the NBC...

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Your Show of Shows

as uncredited
First aired: 1950-02-25

Your Show of Shows was a live 90-minute variety show that was broadcast weekly in the United...

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DuPont Show of the Month

as Grace Graves
First aired: 1957-09-29

DuPont Show of the Month is an acclaimed 90-minute television anthology series that aired...

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General Electric Theater

as Bettina Blane
First aired: 1953-02-01

General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was...

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Armadillo

as Father
First aired: 2001-09-16

The British-American thriller Armadillo stars James Frain as Lorimer Black, a slick, well-spoken...

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