S20E05: Joan Bennett

Trashy Divorces

Hemlock Creatives

History, Comedy

4.5 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Hollywood legend Joan Bennett didn't always want to follow in her family's footsteps as an actor. The youngest of the Bennett Sisters, her siblings Constance and Barbara were already film stars by the time Joan determined to hang a shingle as an interior designer, but motherhood got in the way. After her first short marriage and divorce, she had an extra mouth to feed, which launched her on a decades' long career that spanned dozens of films, including Puttin' on the Ritz, She Wanted a Millionaire, and Little Women, where she played Amy alongside Katherine Hepburn's Jo. But her storied career hit a significant obstacle in 1951, when her third husband opened fire on her manager, believing them to be having an affair, and Joan, more than either man, was sidelined for the scandal. Until a little show called Dark Shadows premiered, anyway.

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0:00.0	Welcome all to another edition of Trashy Divorces. Everybody's favorite good podcast about bad relationships. My name is Stacy.
0:09.5	Hey, friends Alicia here. Thank you for joining us for today's tale of marital misadventure with an old Hollywood legend, Joan Bennett.
0:18.9	One of the Bennett's sisters. There are three of them, Constance,
0:22.1	Barbara, and Joan. They are their own whole saga together and alone. Today's episode is just a little
0:31.4	amuse bouch when it comes to them. There's so much to like about this story for us here at Trashy Divorces,
0:39.8	loaded with spider webs. Joan Bennett, our profile today is the youngest of those three famous
0:45.9	Bennett sisters. And Joan herself, four times married, three times divorced.
0:52.0	Sounds perfect. Well, one of those marriages has her husband shooting her
0:57.8	suspected lover in the groin area. Oh. Yeah, it's so much the story of Joan Bennett. We had to begin
1:05.1	with her. I promise this is a wild ride of everything you love about trashy divorces. But before we begin today's episode, we have, excitingly enough, moved in to a different
1:16.7	zodiac season.
1:18.9	And in our magic mirror, it is time to celebrate our trashy Scorpio's today.
1:24.8	I love this season, wishing a very happy, happy birthday.
1:29.1	Two, who, Stacey, whose names do we see in the Magic Mirror for Scorpio season?
1:33.4	We have Carrie's Papa, who is a 78 years young gentleman.
1:39.4	Happy birthday.
1:40.8	Steph F. with a milestone birthday this year.
1:44.8	Jess, I, big love to you, most especially this season.
1:49.0	I do want to give a shout out if you are looking for a special charity and honor Jess's dad,
1:54.1	please check out the National MS Society.
1:57.6	That's not it, though.
1:58.4	We got a lot of Scorpios.
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