Briiliant, beautiful actress......she was amazing in Dark Shadows

They'll never be another Joan Bennett. Loved her

@guyhaines546

7 жыл бұрын

Very true. Thank you.

I loved Guiding Light and Dark Shadows, so really super cool for me to see Miss Bennett and "Nola Reardon"

Joan Bennett had such a wonderful, velvety voice.

Joan Bennett: total class act

RIP Joan Bennett ! You are sadly deeply sadly missed by your fans !

So wonderful to see her. Loved her in Dark Shadows and Suspiria. Still very beautiful.

Gosh she was so classy!

Thank you for putting this on KZread! I loved seeing it, at last! I'm a big fan of Joan Bennett, and this guest appearance as herself on Guiding Light was her final performance. Thanks again!

@Bellero

10 жыл бұрын

You're welcome, Harold! Thanks for your kind comments.

How LEGENDARY is DARK SHADOWS to still be referred to in movies and tv decades later??

The only reason I know Joan Bennett is bc she was in Suspiria. She was terrific in it. One of the best supporting turns by an actress I've ever seen in a horror movie.

Joan Bennett had more class in her index finger than 100 of todays stars.

Thank you so much!!!!! I have been waiting for many years to see this again! Love Joan Bennett and Guiding Light.

@Bellero

10 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it, David. Thanks!

This was so fun to see! Thanks for sharing!

Thank you so much for uploading this episode. It brings back so many fond memories ...

@Bellero

4 жыл бұрын

JohnRobie thank you!

great actress joan

Thank you so much for adding this! I've been wanting to see it a long time. Joan Bennett is a great favourite of mine.

@Bellero

10 жыл бұрын

You're welcome! Thank you!

This is terrific ! Thank you for posting this clip! I never knew that Joan Bennett was on the show.

@Bellero

10 жыл бұрын

You're welcome! Thank you!

Joan was a gifted actress pretty too !

Formerly of Dark Shadows was known as Elizabeth Collins-Stoddard.

I miss Guiding Light!

GRACIE: "Nola, I'd like you to meet... NOLA: "No need to tell me. Everyone knows Grayson Hall. Thank goodness Miss Bennett didn't refer to either of the ladies as "Maggie" or "Vickie". Louis Edmonds and Joan Bennett were good friends off the set. Louis once joked he loved rehearsing with Joan Bennett. He said they would rehearse lines together weekends, and enjoy cocktails during breaks. He said, "she had the best stocked home bar you ever saw." If only they had said at the end, Miss Bennett's gown by Bonwit Teller, I'd feel I was back watching What's My Line?

Guy, thank you so much for posting this! I had seen the clips only once before, in the early part of 1983, when an acquaintance showed it to me. Can't believe it's been 31 years. When Bennett speaks of appreciating talent, it took me right back to that scene in Scarlet Street where she's standing on the balcony talking about painting.

@Bellero

10 жыл бұрын

You're welcome, Jamie! Thanks for your comments!

Wow she was still beautiful.

@stickman4189

6 жыл бұрын

indeed

Wasn't this Grant Aleksander's first episode as Phillip Spaulding? Would love to see this entire episode.

WOW! Thank you for posting this! I saw an appearance on Guiding Light in Joan Bennett's filmography and I was really glad to find it, but had been wondering what character she'd be in Springfield's tapestry, and am totally floored that she appeared as herself! How delightful!

I love Joan Bennett. But she looks like an elderly a Princess Leia in this!

She played Elizabeth Collins Stoddard, I'm surprised Miss Bennett didn't set them straight on that.

I would have loved to have met Miss Bennett, such a wonderful actress and so elegant.

Was a great fan of GL. Had forgotten about Joan's appearance! Thanks for this great post! Marj Dusay as ALEXANDRA was always my favorite . Would have loved to see Joan, Marj ,and Jeanne Coopers Katherine Chancellor share scenes! 🏆👑.

I wonder if my mother would have remembered this, she was a fan of both Guiding Light and Dark Shadows! I was only four at this time so... A little too young to be watching soap operas 😅😅😅. This is so cool though!!!!

Thank you. I never knew if I'd get to see this. This is a huge treat. Thank you. Was she in more than one episode or was this one cut together?

@Bellero

10 жыл бұрын

Ken, I believe she was only in the single episode. A friend sent me this many years ago. I can't remember who the friend was to ask your question. But it appears to me that it was just one episode. And I'm sure that all of Joan's scenes were included. Thanks for your kind comments.

@kengeorgejones6855

10 жыл бұрын

Belleroguy Thank you for sharing this and for answering my question. What a nice holiday treat.

Joan Bennett owed her career to Hedy Lamarr. Joan, like her older sister Constance, were natural Blondes. In 1938, her husband at the time, Walter Wanger, cast a Hollywood unknown , Hedy lamarr in her first American movie, "Algiers". She was a sensation and became a hugh star at the time, mainly cause of her beauty, we later found out years later, also an inventor. joan was so taken with Hedy's brunette hair, she died her blonde tress's and never went Blonde again. Her career prior to that, was on the downward skids, so it was revived again with her new look. The comics at that time always had a field day, by saying...Why does Hedy, make Joan wear all of her old hair."

Scarlet Street.......'nuff said.

Thanks so much for this fun post! I was a GL fan from the mid-1970's into the early 1980's, but started to lose interest when Cindy Pickett left the show and the "Nola and Quint" storyline came in (which struck me as being beyond silly - even for a soap opera!) Anyway, I did miss this episode and enjoyed seeing it so many years after the fact. Now (!) if only those Joan Crawford apperances (from 1968, I believe) would show up - lol! Thanks again!

@TimsDale4ever

8 жыл бұрын

+John Jolson I think Crawford subbed for her daughter Christine on SECRET STORM. That had to be a riot for fans -- watching this obviously much older lady playing a young lady the age of whatever Christine was at the time -- and having scenes with Christine's on air fiancé who would have been very young too.

@a.b.sproductionsllc

6 жыл бұрын

John Jolson I wasn’t even born during the Quint & Nola storyline heyday, but I agree it is rather silly and I know Lisa Brown is a fine actress, but she acted like a over grown kid, and Brown and Tylo’s scenes seem like watching an Elizabethan play.

Guiding Light was always such a nerdy show.

@claystevenson1821

4 жыл бұрын

Nerdy show in what way?

What a ridiculous show! Typical of soap operas then and shows now. Except of course for the lovely and gracious and really good actress Joan Bennett.

@BLTKellys

3 жыл бұрын

What’s ridiculous about it? Soap actors are the hardest working in the industry and most movie actors couldn’t do what they do.

@robsemail

2 жыл бұрын

The stories are ridiculous, but that doesn’t mean the productions are worthless. Soaps are all about character development, sensational stories and acting. The stories are absurd, but so is Shakespeare’s ‘Much Ado About Nothing’, ‘As You Like It’ and others. In fact, those Shakespeare plays employ a lot of story devices that today are commonplace in sitcoms and soaps. Don’t get me wrong; I’m not comparing Agnes Nixon to Shakespeare except in the sense that each was a giant in their field, and people of their time waited anxiously to see what they would write next. They were both good storytellers.

Sorry, make that "appearances."