Joan Fontaine as the title character in “Ivy” (1947) — an entertaining, but frustrating, murder thriller that gets a bit contrived in the final act.
#criterionchannel #noirbygaslight #joanfontaine
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“REBECCA” (1940) dir. #AlfredHitchcock
#JoanFontaine , #LaurenceOlivier , #JudithAnderson , #GeorgeSanders , #ReginaldDenny , #GladysCooper , #CAubreySmith , #NigelBruce
#movies #Rebecca #alfredhitchcock #joanfontaine #laurenceolivier #judithanderson #georgesanders #reginalddenny #gladyscooper #caubreysmith #nigelbruce
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#CaryGrant and #JoanFontaine star in #AlfredHitchcock ’s romantic psychological thriller “SUSPICION” (1941)
#movies #suspicion #carygrant #joanfontaine #alfredhitchcock
#Filmfest 896 #Cinema #Film #Movies #MovingPicture #IdaLupino #JoanFontaine Small #Classic
Der Mann mit zwei Frauen (The Bigamist, USA 1953) #Filmfest 896
https://derwahlberliner.com/2023/01/30/der-mann-mit-zwei-frauen-the-bigamist-usa-1953-filmfest-896/
#filmfest #cinema #film #movies #movingpicture #idalupino #joanfontaine #classic
Joseph Cotten and Joan Fontaine in “September Affair” (1950)
#oldhollywood #joanfontaine #josephcotten
On June 13, 1968, The Devil’s Own debuted in Mexico. Here’s some Joan Fontaine fan art!
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#TheDevilsOwn #TheWitches #CyrilFrankel #JoanFontaine #HammerFilmProductions #Horror #SupernaturalHorror #Witchcraft #FantasyFilm #HorrorArt #Art #MovieArt #MovieHistory
#thedevilsown #thewitches #cyrilfrankel #joanfontaine #hammerfilmproductions #horror #supernaturalhorror #witchcraft #fantasyfilm #horrorart #art #movieart #moviehistory
66 years ago:
Island in the Sun (US)
On a Caribbean island, a rich landowner's son, Maxwell Fleury, is fighting for political office against black labor leader David Boyeur. As if the contentious election weren't enough, there are plenty of scandals to go around: Boyeur has a secret white lover and Fleury's wife, Sylvia, is also having...
1957-06-12
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/37373
#IslandintheSun #JamesMason #JoanFontaine #JoanCollins #20thCenturyFox #ClassicMovies
#IslandintheSun #JamesMason #joanfontaine #joancollins #20thcenturyfox #classicmovies
75 years ago:
Letter from an Unknown Woman (US)
A pianist about to flee from a duel receives a letter from a woman he cannot remember. As she tells the story of her lifelong love for him, he is forced to reinterpret his own past.
1948-04-28
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/946
#LetterfromanUnknownWoman #MaxOphüls #JoanFontaine #LouisJourdan #Universal #Film
#letterfromanunknownwoman #maxophuls #joanfontaine #louisjourdan #universal #film
Notes on the 1939 #movie #GungaDin, one of the #classic #1930s #action #adventure epics extolling the virtues of the #BritishEmpire.
https://www.altfg.com/film/gunga-din-movie-1939/
#George Stevens directed.
#Cary Grant, #DouglasFairbanksJr & #VictorMcLaglen star, with #SamJaffe & #JoanFontaine in supporting roles.
#hollywood #classicmovies #Film #Movies #joanfontaine #samjaffe #victormclaglen #douglasfairbanksjr #Cary #George #britishempire #adventure #action #1930s #classic #gungadin #movie
Ida Lupino and guest star Joan Fontaine in scene from an episode of Lupino’s sitcom, “Mr. Adams and Eve” — aired Oct. 18, 1957.
#OldHollywood #ClassicTV #MrAdamsAndEve #IdaLupino #JoanFontaine
#oldhollywood #classictv #mradamsandeve #idalupino #joanfontaine
Joan Fontaine and Burt Lancaster in “Kiss the Blood Off My Hands” (1948) — an implausible love story with a top-notch cast and excellent noirish cinematography.
#ClassicMovies #FilmNoir #Noir #OldHollywood #JoanFontaine #BurtLancaster
#classicmovies #filmnoir #noir #oldhollywood #joanfontaine #burtlancaster
And our #NoirAlley leading lady this week is Joan Fontaine (pictured with a little help from Burt Lancaster)
#TCMParty #FilmNoir #KissTheBloodOffMyHands #JoanFontaine #DarknessAtNoon
#noiralley #tcmparty #filmnoir #kissthebloodoffmyhands #joanfontaine #darknessatnoon
Ad for the Fred Astaire RKO musical “Damsel in Distress” (1937), Screenland, Jan. 1938.
This was Astaire’s first starting vehicle separate from Ginger Rogers. Burns and Allen are his co-stars. Early career Joan Fontaine is the love interest, but only gets a mention as a generic “Hollywood’s Girl of Your Dreams”
Immortal music by George Gershwin in one of his last works before his early death in mid-1937.
#ClassicFilm #Musicals #FredAstaire #JoanFontaine #BurnsAndAllen #GeorgeGershwin
#classicfilm #musicals #fredastaire #joanfontaine #burnsandallen #georgegershwin
I just watched The Witches (Cyril Frankel, 1966) and rated it 7/10 ~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Witches_%281966_film%29?wprov=sfla1 #films #cinema #cinemastadon #TheWitches #FolkHorror #NigelKneale #TynesideCinema #KayWalsh #JoanFontaine
#joanfontaine #kaywalsh #tynesidecinema #nigelkneale #folkhorror #TheWitches #cinemastadon #cinema #films