Joan Fontaine
Actor
- Damsel in Distress, A (1937)
- Dir. George Stevens
Feat. Fred Astaire, George Burns, Joan Fontaine…
- A wealthy American entertainer (Astaire) must win the heart of a lovely English lady (Fontaine). His efforts to woo are drastically hindered by her…
- Women, The (1939)
- Dir. George Cukor
Feat. Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell…
- They gossip! They bitch! They cackle! What does one expect with a cast of 135 women. Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford and Rosalind Russell head the…
- Rebecca (1940)
- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders
- A masterful gothic romance about a nobleman's second wife who becomes haunted by the image of his beloved first. Hitchcock's first American film was…
- Suspicion (1941)
- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine
- One of Hitch's first American films uses the artificial charms of Cary Grant to strangely sinister effect, as a manipulative playboy whom wife Joan…
- Jane Eyre (1943)
- Dir. Robert Stevenson
Feat. Joan Fontaine, Orson Welles, Peggy Ann Garner…
- Orphan Jane's (Joan Fontaine) harsh childhood and strange marriage are fuel for splendid gothic melodrama in this version of Charlotte Bronte's…
- Frenchman's Creek (1944)
- Dir. Mitchell Leisen
Feat. Joan Fontaine, Arturo de Córdova, Basil Rathbone…
- A faithful adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's novel about an aristocratic English woman who falls in love with a French pirate during the reign of…
- Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
- Dir. Max Ophuls
Feat. Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan
- Joan Fontaine waxes regretfully in a letter to her object of infatuation, a womanizing concert pianist (dishy Louis Jourdan) in late 19th Century…
- Ivanhoe (1952)
- Dir. Richard Thorpe
Feat. Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine…
- Boisterous Middle–Ages spectacular featuring brutal action scenes.
- Bigamist, The (1953)
- Dir. Ida Lupino
Feat. Edmond O'Brien, Joan Fontaine, Ida Lupino…
- A San Francisco adoption agency, investigating salesman Edmond O'Brien and wife Joan Fontaine, discover he has a second life, and wife, in LA.…
- Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956)
- Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Dana Andrews, Joan Fontaine, Sidney Blackmer…
- This bleak film noir from director Fritz Lang is a triumph of style and mood with a cynical take on fate and the human condition.
An impeccably…