Bennett was the shrewish, cuckolding wife, Margaret Macomber, in Zoltan Korda's "The Macomber Affair" (1947) opposite Gregory Peck, as the deceitful wife, Peggy, in Jean Renoir's "The Woman on the Beach" (also 1947) opposite Robert Ryan and Charles Bickford, and as the tormented blackmail victim Lucia Harper in Max Ophüls' "The Reckless Moment" (1949) opposite James Mason.