Joan Bennett appeared in a series film noir thrillers directed by Fritz Lang, with whom she and then husband Walter Wanger formed their own production company.
A major actress of the 1030s and 1940s, Joan Bennett had appeared in four movies under Lang’s direction:
Cockney Jerry Stokes in Man Hunt (1941), opposite Walter Pidgeon;
Mysterious model Alice Reed in The Woman in the Window (1944) with Edward G. Robinson;
Vulgar blackmailer Katharine “Kitty” March in Scarlet Street (1945), another film with Robinson.
