Movie opens with a murder involving gangster. Gangster’s girl goes to stay with mother. Read More »
Tag Archives: Joan Bennett
She Knew All the Answers (1941) Richard Wallace, Joan Bennett, Franchot Tone, John Hubbard
A chorus girl, Gloria Winters, is overjoyed that wealthy young Randy Bradford is so eager to marry her, he’s asked her to elope. Read More »
Nob Hill (1945) Henry Hathaway, George Raft, Joan Bennett, Vivian Blaine
The owner of a San Francisco saloon yearns to rank among the upper crust of Nob Hill. Read More »
The Son of Monte Cristo (1940) Rowland V. Lee, Louis Hayward, Joan Bennett, George Sanders
In 1865, General Gurko Lanen is dictator of “Lichtenburg” in the Balkans. Rightful ruler Zona hopes to get aid from Napoleon III of France. Read More »
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn (1986) David Heeley, Joan Bennett, Angela Lansbury, Elizabeth Taylor
Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn formed one of the greatest couples of Hollywood’s Golden Era — both on screen and off. Read More »
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo (1935) Stephen Roberts, Ronald Colman, Joan Bennett, Colin Clive, Comedy, Romance
The old British musical-hall ditty “The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo” provides the title for this lightweight Ronald Colman vehicle. Read More »
I Met My Love Again (1938) Joshua Logan, Arthur Ripley, Joan Bennett, Henry Fonda, Louise Platt, Romance
College sweethearts Julie and Ives have planned to marry. Their plans go amiss when Julie meets a weak writer and runs off to marry him. Read More »
Highway Dragnet (1954) Nathan Juran, Richard Conte, Joan Bennett, Wanda Hendrix, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Mrs. Cummings, a free-lance magazine photographer and a recent widow following her husband committed suicide Read More »
Green Hell (1940) James Whale, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Joan Bennett, John Howard, Adventure, Romance
A group of adventurers head deep into a South American jungle in search of ancient Incan treasure. Read More »
Margin for Error (1943) Otto Preminger, Joan Bennett, Milton Berle, Comedy, Drama, War
It is a toss-up as to who is most displeased when Patrolman Moe Finkelstein is given the duty of guarding the German consulate run by Karl Baumer Read More »
The Woman in the Window (1944) Fritz Lang, Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Raymond Massey, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller
Gotham College professor Wanley and his friends become obsessed with the portrait of a woman in the window next to the men’s club. Read More »
Theres Always Tomorrow (1956) Douglas Sirk, Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Joan Bennett, Drama, Romance
Clifford Groves, toy manufacturer, is in full charge at the factory but feels left out and taken for granted by his wife and children at home. Read More »
The Trial of Vivienne Ware (1932) William K. Howard, Joan Bennett, Donald Cook, Richard ‘Skeets’ Gallagher, Crime, Drama
The Man I Married (1940) Irving Pichel, Joan Bennett, Francis Lederer, Lloyd Nolan, Drama
Anti-Nazi tract laced with 1938 newsreel footage finds American girl (Bennett) married to a German (Lederer) gradually learning he is a Nazi, trying to get their son to America. Read More »
Mississippi (1935) A. Edward Sutherland, Wesley Ruggles, Bing Crosby, W.C. Fields, Joan Bennett, Comedy, Musical
A young pacifist after refusing on principle to defend her sweetheart’s honor and being banished in disgrace, joins a riverboat troupe as a singer Read More »