Joan Bennett on Guiding Light December 22, 1982 

They'll never be another Joan Bennett. Loved her

Joan Bennett had such a wonderful, velvety voice.

Joan Bennett: total class act

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

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

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

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

Gosh she was so classy!

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.

Thank you for putting this on RU-vid! 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!

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

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

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

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

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

This was so fun to see! Thanks for sharing!

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?

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.

Joan was a gifted actress pretty too !

great actress joan

Wow she was still beautiful.

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

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."

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 miss Guiding Light!

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

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

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! 🏆👑.

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

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?

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!

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

Guiding Light was always such a nerdy show.

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.

Sorry, make that "appearances."

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.

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