Biography: Joan Fontaine |
Born Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland, Joan Fontaine began her acting career in her late teens with various West Coast stage companies under the name Joan Burfield. She also used that name when she made her 1935 feature film debut in No More Ladies, in... more
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Tags: Supernatural Horror Horror Thriller
Length: 91min
This film was a pet project of Joan Fontaine, based on a novel by Peter Curtis. It was her last feature film. Fontaine stars as teacher Gwen Mayfield, who is in charge of a missionary school in Africa. A witch doctor puts a curse on her, and she has a...
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961)
Cast: Peter Lorre Irwin Allen Bernard Herrmann
Tags: Science Fiction Sci-Fi Disaster Film Sea Adventure Adventure Drama
Length: 106min
Walter Pidgeon is the nominal star of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, portraying Admiral Harriman Nelson, the designer of the submarine Seaview, a glass-nosed research submarine. The sub embarks on her shakedown cruise under the polar ice cap as the...
Hitchcock, II Brivido Del Genio (1985)
Cast: Anne Baxter Judith Anderson
Length: 129min
Film clips and interviews with actors and colleagues provide the material for this laudatory view of the career of Alfred Hitchcock. Among those interviewed who provide a bit of humor in the bargain are Philippe Noiret and Joan Fontaine. The "master...
Cast: Rossano Brazzi
Tags: Romantic Drama Drama Romance
Length: 105min
Based on a novel by Francoise Sagan, A Certain Smile was a vehicle for Darryl F. Zanuck's latest protegee, Christine Carere. Parisian student Carere spats with her boyfriend Bradford Dillman, then impulsively agrees to accompany Dillman's worldly...
Cast: Jason Robards, Jr. Joan Fontaine Jennifer Jones
Tags: Romantic Drama Melodrama Drama Romance
Length: 146min
David O. Selznick had intended to film an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's -Tender is the Night as a vehicle for his wife Jennifer Jones. But financial difficulties compelled Selznick to sell the property (including Ms. Jones' services) to 20th...
Cast: James Mason Harry Belafonte
Tags: Crime Drama Political Drama
Length: 119min
Political intrigue and romantic gamesmanship send an already torrid Caribbean community to the boiling point in this drama. Maxwell Fleury (James Mason) and David Boyeur (Harry Belafonte) are two men running for political office in a...
Cast: Paul Newman
Tags: Romantic Drama War Romance Drama Crime Romance
Length: 95min
Adapted by Robert Anderson from a story by James A. Michener, the Robert Wise-directed soaper Until They Sail is set in World-War-II New Zealand. Paul Newman plays been-there-done-that U.S. marine captain Jack Harding, assigned to investigate...
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956)
Cast: Fritz Lang
Tags: Psychological Drama Courtroom Drama Crime Drama Drama Film Noir
Length: 80min
Crusading publisher Austin Spenser (Sidney Blackmer) wants to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial evidence. Spencer talks his prospective son-in-law Tom Garrett (Dana Andrews) into participating in a hoax, the better to expose the...
Cast: Bob Hope Vincent Price Basil Rathbone
Length: 85min
Bob Hope tries to capture the comic magic of his 1946 costume farce Monsieur Beaucaire with the splashy Technicolor romp Casanova's Big Night (filmed in 1952, released in 1954). Set in 18th century Venice, the film casts Hope as Pippo, the humble...
Tags: Romance Musical Drama Romantic Drama
Length: 121min
Loosely based on a novel by James M. Cain, this romantic drama centers on the struggles of a humble vineyard worker (real-life opera star Mario Lanza) who rises to become a renowned opera star. In the original book, Damon, the protagonist, has a...
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