Joan Fontaine passes away at 96
12-15-13, 07:10 PM
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Joan Fontaine passes away at 96
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/new...spicion-665831
Rebecca is one of the greatest movies ever made... 96 years is a long, long life though, and for that one film along, what a legacy. RIP
Rebecca is one of the greatest movies ever made... 96 years is a long, long life though, and for that one film along, what a legacy. RIP
12-15-13, 07:22 PM
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Re: Joan Fontaine passes away at 96
Rebecca is one of the greatest movies ever made
She did live a very long life, but it's sad to see these last connections to the "Golden Age" of Hollywood passing on.
RIP Joan Fontaine.
12-15-13, 07:27 PM
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Lot of deaths today.
12-15-13, 08:22 PM
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Letter from an Unknown Woman is one of my favorite movies. I am SO glad my mother has a huge love of movies or there are so many movies I would have missed!
Sadly, I haven't seen a lot of coverage about her.
Sadly, I haven't seen a lot of coverage about her.
12-15-13, 11:59 PM
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As much as I enjoy Rebecca, I first think of Joan Fontaine as the awkward young love object in A Damsel in Distress, the only non-Ginger Rogers picture Fred Astaire made during their great run.
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12-16-13, 01:48 AM
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Rip
12-16-13, 04:18 AM
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She made a lot of great movies in the 1940s.
Two for Hitchcock:
REBECCA
SUSPICION (she won the Oscar for it)
One co-starring with Orson Welles:
JANE EYRE, directed by Robert Stevenson, produced by John Houseman, written by Aldous Huxley, hello? Music by Bernard Herrmann. One of the best movies of that decade.
One for Max Ophuls:
LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN
One about a struggling postwar couple in the Bronx:
FROM THIS DAY FORWARD
A film noir with Burt Lancaster:
KISS THE BLOOD OFF MY HANDS
And a special favorite of mine, a period romance in Technicolor, based on Daphne du Maurier:
FRENCHMAN'S CREEK
She made some good movies in the 1950s, too. She's quite funny alongside Bob Hope in CASANOVA'S BIG NIGHT.
Fontaine is also the third of three actresses in their 90s who had their best moments in the 1940s to die this week, the others being Eleanor Parker and Audrey Totter.
Two for Hitchcock:
REBECCA
SUSPICION (she won the Oscar for it)
One co-starring with Orson Welles:
JANE EYRE, directed by Robert Stevenson, produced by John Houseman, written by Aldous Huxley, hello? Music by Bernard Herrmann. One of the best movies of that decade.
One for Max Ophuls:
LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN
One about a struggling postwar couple in the Bronx:
FROM THIS DAY FORWARD
A film noir with Burt Lancaster:
KISS THE BLOOD OFF MY HANDS
And a special favorite of mine, a period romance in Technicolor, based on Daphne du Maurier:
FRENCHMAN'S CREEK
She made some good movies in the 1950s, too. She's quite funny alongside Bob Hope in CASANOVA'S BIG NIGHT.
Fontaine is also the third of three actresses in their 90s who had their best moments in the 1940s to die this week, the others being Eleanor Parker and Audrey Totter.
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12-16-13, 05:53 PM
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I watched Rebecca on cable several years ago because it was an older Hitchcock film but I did not expect to be so captivated with it, especially the performances of Joan Fontaine and Laurence Olivier.
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