
Italy, 1757. Lowly tailor Pippo Popolino disguises himself as the great Casanova in order to romance attractive widow Francesca. Read More »
Tag Archives: Joan Fontaine
Born to Be Bad [+Extra] (1950) Nicholas Ray, Mel Ferrer, Joan Fontaine, Robert Ryan

Christabel fools everyone with her sweet exterior including her cousin Donna and Donna’s wealthy fiancée Curtis. Read More »
Tender Is the Night (1962) Henry King, Jennifer Jones, Jason Robards, Joan Fontaine

A Psychiatrist and his life with a patient he helped to recover. Read More »
Something to Live For (1952) George Stevens, Joan Fontaine, Ray Milland, Teresa Wright

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 »
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 »
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 »