Joan bennett biography

American actress, and popular leading lady of the 1930s and 1940s.Born in Palisades, New Jersey, on February 27, 1910; died of cardiac arrest at her home in Scarsdale, New York, on December 7, 1990; daughter of actor Richard Bennett and actress (Mabel) Adrienne Morrison; sister of screen actresses Constance Bennett (1904–1965) andBarbara Bennett(1906–1958); married John Fox, on September 15, 1926 (divorced, August 1928); married Gene Markey, in 1932 (divorced 1937); married Walter Wanger, in 1940 (divorced 1965); married David Wilde, in 1978; children: (first marriage) Adrienne Ralston ("Ditty," b.

1928); (second marriage) Melinda ("Mims," b. 1934); (third marriage) Stephanie (b. 1943) and Shelley (b. 1948).

Filmography:

The Valley of Decision (bit, 1916); The Eternal City (bit, 1923); Power (1928); Bulldog Drummond (1929); Three Live Ghosts (1929); Disraeli (1929); The Mississippi Gambler (1929); Puttin' on the Ritz (1930);