An actress becomes an alcoholic after being jilted. She is aided by an Alcoholics Anonymous member with whom she has an affair; however, he is married. Read More »
Tag Archives: Joan Fontaine
Decameron Nights (1953) Hugo Fregonese, Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan, Godfrey Tearle
The main story combines bits of Giovanni Boccaccio’s own life (maybe and maybe not) with three of his most fabulous stories of love. Read More »
Ivanhoe (1952) Richard Thorpe, Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine
In the centre of this Walter Scott classic fiction inspired film the chivalrousness and the daring stand. Read More »
The Constant Nymph (1943) Edmund Goulding, Charles Boyer, Joan Fontaine, Brenda Marshall
Fourteen-year-old Tessa is hopelessly in love with handsome composer Lewis Dodd, a family friend. Lewis adores Tessa, but has never shown any romantic feelings toward her. Read More »
Gunga Din (1939) George Stevens, Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Victor McLaglen, Adventure, Comedy, War
Based loosely on the poem by Rudyard Kipling, this takes place in British India during the Thuggee uprising. Read More »
You Gotta Stay Happy (1948) H.C. Potter, Joan Fontaine, James Stewart, Eddie Albert, Comedy, Romance
Indecisive heiress Dee Dee Dillwood is pushed into marrying her sixth fiancée, but unable to face the wedding night Read More »
The Duke of West Point (1938) Alfred E. Green, Louis Hayward, Joan Fontaine, Tom Brown, Drama
Louis Hayward plays an arrogant Cambridge student who emigrates to America and enrolls at the West Point. Read More »
Island in the Sun (1957) Robert Rossen, James Mason, Joan Fontaine, Dorothy Dandridge, Drama, Romance
Set on a fictitious island in the Carribean during colonial British rule, it focuses on the life of a young charismatic and handsome black male with political aspirations. Read More »
Serenade (1956) Anthony Mann, Mario Lanza, Joan Fontaine, Sara Montiel, Drama, Music, Romance
Damon Vincenti, a young vineyard worker, has a beautiful tenor voice and dreams of becoming a great opera singer. Read More »
Frenchman’s Creek (1944) Mitchell Leisen, Joan Fontaine, Arturo de Córdova, Basil Rathbone, Adventure, Drama, Romance
An English lady bored with London society brings her 2 children to their country home. Read More »
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (1948) Norman Foster, Joan Fontaine, Burt Lancaster, Robert Newton, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Bill Saunders, disturbed ex-soldier, kills a man in a postwar London pub brawl. Read More »
Suspicion (1941) Alfred Hitchcock, Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Cedric Hardwicke, Mystery, Thriller
Johnny Aysgarth is a handsome gambler who seems to live by borrowing money from friends. Read More »
Jane Eyre (1943) Robert Stevenson, Orson Welles, Joan Fontaine, Margaret O’Brien, Drama, Romance
Small, plain and poor, Jane Eyre comes to Thornfield Hall as governess to the young ward of Edward Rochester. Read More »
Rebecca (1940) Alfred Hitchcock, Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Film-Noir, Mystery, Drama
Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died mysteriously several years earlier. Read More »
September Affair (1950) William Dieterle, Joan Fontaine, Joseph Cotten, Françoise Rosay, Drama, Romance
An industrialist (Joseph Cotton) and a pianist (Joan Fontaine) meet on a trip and fall in love. Through a quirk of fate, they are reported dead in a crash though they weren’t on the plane. This gives them the opportunity to live together free from their previous lives.
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