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Rebecca review by from THATCHAM

7 November 2004
...Joan Fontaine plays the innocent, while lawrence olivier plays the tortured soul with a secret. one of alfred hitch's classics that should not be missed.... Read customer review

3 Leading Ladies Of The Silver Screen - Vol. 3 - Bigamist / Hell's House / High Voltage review by from Croydon, England

Ida Lupino 16 November 2005
...The Bigamist is sold as a Joan Fontaine film, but this is really Ida Lupino’s show. As far as I know, she was the only woman working regularly as a director in the male-domi... Read customer review

Jane Eyre review by A customer from Scotland

I Love It 13 October 2006
... a fantastic version. The characters are played brilliantly by Orson Welles and Joan Fontaine. Even the short appearance by a very young Elizabeth Taylor is fantastic. Hope ... Read customer review

Joan Fontaine - filmography

The Witches on DVD (1966)
Starring: Kay Walsh, Joan Fontaine, Alec McCowen
Director: Cyril Frankel
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
This Hammer Production set in the English countryside pits Gwen Mayfield (Joan Fontaine), the newly appointed headmistress of Haddaby Academy against a coven of witches. Tormented by memories of experiences with African witch doctors, Gwen thinks that working at a quiet English countryside school ..read more »

57% from 213 members

Fantastic Voyage on DVD (1966)
Starring: Stephen Boyd, Peter Lorre, Robert Sterling
Director: Richard Fleischer
Certificate:
Shrunk to microscopic size, an elite scientific and medical team enters the bloodstream of an ailing scientist in a desperate effort to save his life. Battling the body's incredible defenses, the crew must complete their mission before time runs out.

67% from 773 members

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt on DVD (1956)
Starring: Dana Andrews, Joan Fontaine, Sidney Blackmer
Director: Fritz Lang
Certificate:
Hoping to expose fatal flaws in the legal system, a writer (DANA ANDREWS, Laura) places a bet that he can have himself convicted of murder on purely circumstantial evidence by planting false clues at a crime scene, before sensationally revealing his trick at the last minute. However, a series of ..read more »

66% from 99 members

The Bigamist on DVD (1953)
Starring: Joan Fontaine, Ida Lupino, Edmund Gwenn
Director: Ida Lupino
Certificate:
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A salesman marries a wealthy woman from a blue-blooded L.A. family (Fontaine) and a street-smart waitress in a San Francisco Chinese restaurant. Driven to this agonizing extreme more by his big heart than lust, the bigamist strains to keep his double life a secret from the women he truly loves. ..read more »

59% from 84 members

Ivanhoe (1952)
Starring: Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine
Director: Richard Thorpe
Certificate:
In the centre of this Walter Scott classic fiction inspired film the chivalrousness and the daring stand. Ivanhoe, the disowned knight join to the bravehearted and high-minded Robin Hood, the valiant of Forest Sherwood. They want King Richard to rule the kingdom instead of evil Prince John.

65% from 37 members
Currently unavailable

Born To Be Bad on DVD (1950)
Starring: Joan Fontaine, Robert Ryan, Zachary Scott
Director: Nicholas Ray
Certificate:
When Christabel (Joan Fontaine) comes to live with her cousin Donna Foster (Joan Leslie) she fools everyone with her sugary exterior. But soon the calculating, rapacious Christabel begins to sow seeds of discontent between Donna and her wealthy fiancé Curtis (Zachary Scott) by convincing Curtis ..read more »

55% from 11 members

Letter from an Unknown Woman on DVD (1948)
Starring: Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan
Director: Max Ophuls
Certificate:
Philandering concert pianist Stefan arrives home to find a letter which begins 'by the time you read this I might be dead'. So unfolds the story of Lisa, one of the many women he had shared a brief encounter over the years and swiftly forgotten. Her life had been spent loving him unflateringly and ..read more »

75% from 1,000 member

Jane Eyre on DVD (1944)
Starring: Orson Welles, Joan Fontaine, Margaret O'Brien
Director: Robert Stevenson
Certificate:
Victorian England, and an abused orphan becomes the governess in a gloomy Yorkshire mansion. There she meets Mr. Rochester... Based on the novel by Charlotte Bronte.

68% from 308 members

Suspicion on DVD (1941)
Starring: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Cedric Hardwicke
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Certificate:
Cary Grant and Oscar-winner Joan Fontaine star in this Hitchcock thriller in which Fontaine (as Lina) suspects Grant (as her husband) of trying to murder her. The plot is typical of Hitchcock, a brain twister sewing together a series of circumstantial events that leads Lina to the inevitable ..read more »

66% from 2,365 members

Rebecca on DVD (1940)
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Certificate:
A string of classic suspense films produced in England had earned Alfred Hitchcock a reputation in the United States, and his first American production, REBECCA, cemented his fame. Based on the novel by Daphne du Maurier, REBECCA was conceived to rival producer David O. Selznick's previous epic, ..read more »

74% from 8,847 members

Gunga Din (1939)
Starring: Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Director: George Stevens
Certificate:
In 19th century India, three British soldiers and a native waterbearer must stop a secret mass revival of the murderous Thuggee cult before it can rampage across the land.

65% from 96 members
Currently unavailable

A Damsel In Distress on DVD (1937)
Starring: Joan Fontaine, Fred Astaire, George Burns
Director: George Stevens
Certificate:
Lady Alyce Marshmorton must marry soon, and the staff of Tottney Castle have laid bets on who she'll choose, with young Albert wagering on "Mr. X." After Alyce goes to London to meet a beau (bumping into dancer Jerry Halliday, instead), she is restricted to the castle to curb her scandalous ..read more »

68% from 27 members

3 Leading Ladies Of The Silver Screen - ... on DVD
Starring: Joan Fontaine, Carole Lombard
Director: Ida Lupino, Howard Higgin
Certificate:
Three features. 'Bigamist' tells the story of a salesman with two wives, and presents a sensitive study of the events that caused an upright and decent man to commit such an unusual crime. Also features 'Hell's House' and 'High Voltage'.

45% from 144 members

Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea on DVD
Starring: Walter Pidgeon, Joan Fontaine, Barbara Eden
Director: Irwin Allen
Certificate:
A routine scientific expedition to the North Pole turns into a race to save mankind when a radiation belt in space causes a fiery inferno on Earth.

61% from 380 members

Joan Fontaine facts

5 most recent films

The Witches - 3.0 stars
Fantastic Voyage - 3.5 stars
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt - 3.5 stars
The Bigamist - 3.0 stars
Ivanhoe - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Letter from an Unknown Woman - 4.0 stars
Rebecca - 3.5 stars
Jane Eyre - 3.5 stars
Fantastic Voyage - 3.5 stars
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Born To Be Bad - 3.0 stars
Ivanhoe - 3.5 stars
A Damsel In Distress - 3.5 stars
3 Leading Ladies Of The Silver Screen - Vol. 3 - Bigamist / Hell's House / High Voltage - 2.5 stars
The Witches - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Ida Lupino - 2 times - show films
Cary Grant - 2 times - show films
Barbara Eden - 2 times - show films
Edmond O'Brien - 2 times - show films
Walter Pidgeon - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Ida Lupino - 3 times - show films
George Stevens - 2 times - show films
Cyril Frankel - 2 times - show films
Alfred Hitchcock - 2 times - show films
Fritz Lang - 1 times - show films