Trivia of Joan Bennett
Trivia of Joan Bennett (27 February 1910 - 7 December 1990)
*Younger sister of actresses Constance and Barbara Bennett.Her father Richard Bennett and mother Adrienne Morrison also actors.Bennett first appeared in a silent movie as a child with her parents and sisters in drama The Valley of Decision (1916).
*In 1932 she starred opposite Spencer Tracy in She Wanted a Millionaire (1932), but it wasn't one she liked to remember, partly because Tracy couldn't stand the fact that everyone was paying more attention to her than to him.It's first of four movies co-starring Spencer Tracy and Joan Bennett. The others were Me And My Gal (1932), Father Of The Bride (1950), and Father's Little Dividend (1951).
*Director Tay Garnett persuaded her to change her hair from blonde to brunette as part of the plot for her role as Kay Kerrigan in the scenic Trade Winds (1938) opposite Fredric March.With her change in appearance, Bennett began an entirely new screen career as her persona evolved into that of a glamorous, seductive femme fatale.
*She was a finalist for the part of Scarlett O'Hara in the classic Gone with the Wind (1939). Vivien Leigh got the role at the last minute. However, the film's producer, David O. Selznick offered to cast her oldest daughter, Diana in the role of Bonnie Blue Butler, Rhett and Scarlett's daughter as a sort of consolation prize. Bennett refused the offer.
*Her husband Walter Wanger shot Bennett's agent, Jennings Lang, in the groin in 1951 because he discovered they were having an affair and caught them in the act in Lang's car. Wanger was convicted of attempted murder and served a four-month sentence.
*At age 39, Bennett became Tinseltown's youngest and sexiest grandmother when her daughter gave birth. Marlene Dietrich, the former title holder, sent Bennett a telegram thanking her for taking the "heat off her".
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