#joanfontaine — Public Fediverse posts
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#BehindTheScenes
#Rebecca (1940)
A self-conscious woman juggles adjusting to her new role as an aristocrat's wife and avoiding being intimidated by his first wife's spectral presence.#AlfredHitchcock directing #LaurenceOlivier and #JoanFontaine
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Love That Brooding Feeling? 4 Free Gothic Romances to Watch if you Loved Wuthering Heights
Captivated by the Gothic romance, tragedy, and windswept drama of Wuthering Heights? These public domain classics will satisfy your craving for more tales of doomed love, dark secrets, and emotional intensity. Rebecca (1940) Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece starring Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine brings Daphne du Maurier's haunting Gothic novel to life. Like Wuthering Heights, it features a brooding male lead haunted by the past. A naive heroine and the ghost of a former love that […] -
Joan Fontaine was the only person to win an acting Oscar in a film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. She won Best Actress for Hitchcock's 1941 film Suspicion (1941). 10 facts about her.
https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2025/10/22-october-joan-fontaine.html
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I just watched The Bigamist (Ida Lupino, 1953) and rated it 4/10 ~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bigamist_(1953_film) #films #cinema #cinemastodon #TheBigamist #IdaLupino #JoanFontaine #EdmondOBrien #EdmundGwenn
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“Blond Cheat” (1938) — early career Joan Fontaine attempts to be a screwball dame. I’m only partway through this, and she is only partway successful so far — but there’s probably a reason she isn’t known for these types of roles.
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Joan Fontaine as the title character in “Ivy” (1947) — an entertaining, but frustrating, murder thriller that gets a bit contrived in the final act.
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Joseph Cotten and Joan Fontaine in “September Affair” (1950)
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#RIP #HarryBelafonte (1927–2023)
Actor, singer & political activist popularized #calypso #music.
Seen in 14 #films, notably in 2 #boxoffice hits of the '50s:
#OttoPreminger's CARMEN JONES (1954), in which he loves/murders #Oscar nominee #DorothyDandridge.
#RobertRossen's Caribbean-set ISLAND IN THE SUN (1957), in which he romances #JoanFontaine. (There's no on-screen kissing, though.)
Singing voice heard in #Beetlejuice.
#actor #singer #movies #ClassicMovies #film #cinema #Cinemastodon
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Directed by #GeorgeStevens, #RKO's #British Raj-set #action #adventure #GungaDin (1939) is 1 of the #classic #1930s epics extolling the greatness of the #BritishEmpire.
Needless to say, #racism is an issue.
https://www.altfg.com/film/gunga-din-movie-1939/
Inspired by a #RudyardKipling #poem while featuring key elements from the #Broadway hit #TheFrontPage, GUNGA DIN stars #CaryGrant, #DouglasFairbanksJr & #VictorMcLaglen.
+ #SamJaffe & #JoanFontaine in supp roles.
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Ida Lupino and guest star Joan Fontaine in scene from an episode of Lupino’s sitcom, “Mr. Adams and Eve” — aired Oct. 18, 1957.
#OldHollywood #ClassicTV #MrAdamsAndEve #IdaLupino #JoanFontaine
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Joan Fontaine and Burt Lancaster in “Kiss the Blood Off My Hands” (1948) — an implausible love story with a top-notch cast and excellent noirish cinematography.
#ClassicMovies #FilmNoir #Noir #OldHollywood #JoanFontaine #BurtLancaster
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And our #NoirAlley leading lady this week is Joan Fontaine (pictured with a little help from Burt Lancaster)
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Ad for the Fred Astaire RKO musical “Damsel in Distress” (1937), Screenland, Jan. 1938.
This was Astaire’s first starting vehicle separate from Ginger Rogers. Burns and Allen are his co-stars. Early career Joan Fontaine is the love interest, but only gets a mention as a generic “Hollywood’s Girl of Your Dreams”
Immortal music by George Gershwin in one of his last works before his early death in mid-1937.
#ClassicFilm #Musicals #FredAstaire #JoanFontaine #BurnsAndAllen #GeorgeGershwin