There was z time when Joan Bennet was almost entirely eclipsed by Constance. The cinema-going public was disinclined to take her seriously zs an actress. Her youth and prettiness were regarded as her chief assets. She just the was younger sister o: mous Con-the fa stance.
But a few veers have wrought a great change. Joan began to show lity in "Pier 12" with Spencer Tracy. It was clear in that she was an accomplished actress with a highly developed sense of humour She was no longer ust pretty and young. Since the she has played any successfully; her personality developed and she become star of the first order.
Now she is following a wise course which many of the leading film actors and actresses favour. She is dividing her time between the screen ud the stage. Having finished "I Love Again," with Henry Fonda and "Vogues of 1938," she has gone or tour in "Stage Door," a play which has already had considerable success with Katherine Hepburn. In the early spring Miss Bennett will return to the film studios and make another picture for Walter Wanger. As she is still very young—one of the youngest stars on the screen—therefore one mey presume that, even in the proverbially short lite of a film actress, she has many, and enhanced, successes before her.
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