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Fontaine Flowers: Rebecca and Suspicion

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2007-11-05 20:23:00 by Campaspe in Self-Styled Siren
...Fontaine go very deeply indeed into these questions. In Rebecca , the woman wonders, does he really long for his previous lover? (Which is the same question asked in Vertigo , to be answered in one of the darkest endings Hitchcock ever filmed.) And in Suspicion , the question becomes the worst one a lovelorn woman can ask--did he ever really...
 
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Happy Birthday to Joan Fontaine

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2007-10-22 11:29:00 by Campaspe in Self-Styled Siren
...Fontaine turns 90 years old. And this week the Siren intends to do her doggonedest to post as much as possible, and devote each post to Joan. There are precious few stars from the glory days of Hollywood who are still with us, and none are dearer to the Siren than Ms Fontaine. Can you guess why She was a delicate clinging vine in Gunga Din ,...
 
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Happy birthday, Joan Fontaine

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2007-10-22 10:29:00 by J.J. in As Little as Possible
...Fontaine , one of Hitchcock's earliest blondes, still one half of the feuding de Havilland sisters ( Olivia is also still alive, if not kicking) and living in semi-seclusion in Carmel. That penpalship was passed along to me, and for a brief time in college Joan and I sent short, polite cards to one another -- in one exchange she admitted that...
 
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Frenchman's Creek (1944)

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2008-07-16 12:30:00 by Campaspe in Self-Styled Siren
...Fontaine says that it might have worked if done in black-and-white as a "story of doomed love." Instead Paramount spent a mint on making it in lavish Technicolor. The costumes are eye-popping albeit also overdone. Fontaine apparently did not get on well with the cast and while Leisen later said she offended the British actors by remarking...
 
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A Man Escaped

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2007-07-21 10:51:00 by Jeff Duncanson in filmscreed
...Fontaine, a French resistance fighter who has been captured and imprisoned by the Nazis. Fontaine has no illusions about how his incarceration will turn out He will eventually be shot, and so his entire being is focused on his escape. He sets to work on the long process of chiseling away his heavy oak cell door with a tool fashioned from a...
 
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More Joan: Memoirs, Early Days and an Early Film

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2007-10-23 21:38:00 by Campaspe in Self-Styled Siren
...Fontaine; she wasn't much like the timid second wife in Rebecca or the terrified bride in Suspicion Read Fontaine's autobiography, No Bed of Roses , and what you get comes close to something said by her sister, who said "Joan is very bright and sharp and can be cutting." The woman who published the book in 1978 seems witty, confident,...
 
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A Few Of My Favorite Twists

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2008-06-25 11:39:53 by Kim Morgan in Sunset Gun
...Fontaine stars as a mousy (though pretty) poor little rich girl who's sure to live the life of a spinster until wolfish charmer Cary Grant sets eyes on her. The mismatched pair marry and the resulting story pits an understandably concerned Fontaine against a husband who's not only a wastrel -- he gambles away their dough, steals from his job...
 
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Warner Bros. has 'Chanel' fever

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2008-08-27 22:12:40 by Franck Tabouring in The Screening Log
...Fontaine's upcoming biopic "Coco Avant Chanel," according to Variety Based on Edmonde Charles-Roux's book "L'Irreguliere," the film examines the life and career of renowned fashion designer Coco Chanel. Fontaine wrote the script along with Camille Fontaine and consultant Christopher Hampton French actress Audrey Tautou stars as the titular...
 
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"Jane Eyre" (Robert Stevenson, 1944)

2007-05-02 14:05:07 by Editor in Movie Review : Activity
 
...Fontaine in the title role with Orson Welles as Rochester. I was pretty unimpressed with Joan Fontaine's Jane. She's altogether too wet, and she's too pretty as well. For goodness' sake, the whole point of "Jane Eyre" is that she's an unlikely heroine. Charlotte Brontë went to a lot of trouble to describe this unusual character: plain and...
 
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The TCM Ten 9/22-9/28

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2007-09-21 04:14:00 by clydefro in clydefro
...Fontaine and (secretly) Ida Lupino. Off the screen, the man credited with this screenplay, Collier Young, married Fontaine in 1952, only one year after his divorce from Lupino. Is it any surprise that Fontaine was unhappy with her role in the finished film? Lesson: dont mess with Ida Lupino. The Bigamist was independently made by Lupinos...
 
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