The snub heard round the world: Photo purportedly documenting #Oscar winner #OliviadeHavilland "snubbing" her younger sister #JoanFontaine backstage after de Havilland's Best Actress win at the '47 Academy Awards. Ryan Murphy, here's your next installment! #TCMParty #Feud
#Rebecca premiered in Miami #OnThisDay in 1940; the #film directed by #AlfredHitchcock was based on the novel by #DaphneDuMaurier & includes superb performances by #LaurenceOlivier, #JoanFontaine & #JudithAnderson; it's on YouTube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YV1...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...
"The shadow of this woman darkened their love."
🎞️ #OTD in #Film #History 21 March 1940, #AlfredHitchcock's atmospheric adaptation of #DaphneDuMaurier's REBECCA, starring #LaurenceOlivier and #JoanFontaine, premiered in Miami. It would later win the Best Picture #Oscar
Hollywood's first example of a woman directing herself in a role as our #IdaLupino series continues on #ItsAWonderful1
#PodernFamily #PodNation #TheBigamist #EdmondOBrien #JoanFontaine #EdmundGwenn #OldHollywood
Despite #TheBestYearsofOurLives' record-setting wins at the 1947 #Oscars, the ongoing feud between sisters #OliviadeHavilland and #JoanFontaine dominated press coverage in the days following the awards ceremony. #TCMParty
La ambición de la bella Nellifer #Joancollins corre pareja a la construcción de una pirámide inexpugnable en TIERRA DE FARAONES que veremos hoy a las 21.50 en #laotrasalaclasicos. Después, la SOSPECHA de #hitchcock con #caryGrant y #JoanFontaine y la versión de LA GUERRA DE LOS BOTONES de 1994.
Also at the 14th #Oscars (Feb 26, 1942), #JoanFontaine became the only actress to win for a perf in a Hitchcock film. #Suspicion
Episode 410 - March 20
THE BIGAMIST (1953)
#EdmondOBrien also stars here alongside #JoanFontaine & #IdaLupino herself as a man secretly married to both women who begins to slowly unravel under the pressure of this deceit 👀
#TheBigamist
A masterpiece from #AlfredHitchcock - the classic mystery drama REBECCA (1940) 5:25pm #TPTVsubtitles
Stars #LaurenceOlivier #JoanFontaine #GeorgeSanders #JudithAnderson
Tormented by the memory of her husband's dead first wife... what was the secret of Manderley?
Directed by #AlfredHitchcock REBECCA (1940) 5:30pm #LaurenceOlivier #JoanFontaine #JudithAnderson #GeorgeSanders #NigelBruce mystery thriller #TPTVsubtitles
Our brew ☕ and biccies 🍪 matinee is directed by and stars #IdaLupino
THE BIGAMIST (1953) 2:10pm with #JoanFontaine #EdmundGwenn #EdmondOBrien drama #TPTVsubtitles
Hitch is at his least subtle here and to make matters worse later in the film totally bottles the denouement (test audiences didn’t like Cary Grant the murderer, so he turns the car away from the cliff edge and drives home).
SUSPICION (1941)
Good movie though.
#JoanFontaine #NigelBruce
#onthisday #onthisdate #otd December 15, 2013 #actress #joanfontaine died at 96. On this special #podcast listen to a #goldenage of #radio #oldtimeradio #otr #audio #thriller starring Joan Fontaine. rileyandkimmyshow.blogspot.com/2021/12/podc...
"I hope I'll die on stage at the age at 105, playing Peter Pan."
🎭 Hollywood legend #JoanFontaine, British-American actress, #DOTD 15 December 2013, aged 96. #Film #Filmmaking
Rescuing celebrants from fake island sinking with weight of festivities as #billywilder gifted it to people of 🇨🇦. #EmperorWaltz 1948. Island built for kiss between #bingcrosby & #joanfontaine, moored off Leach Lake & pulled to shore with pulleys for closeups.
📚📽️ #JasperNationalPark
Animal trainer #FrankInn & #EmperorWaltz stars check out of the #jasperparklodge in spring 1946.
Dirs. #BillyWilder #CharlesBrackett @paramountpictures.bsky.social
Poodle chewed gum to mask offending breath from human stars while filming. #BingCrosby #JoanFontaine
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A strange visitor makes a women think twice before ending her marriage...
🌌 ONE STEP BEYOND (1960) 1:25pm #JoanFontaine #WarrenBeatty 'The Visitor' #TPTVsubtitles Hosted by #JohnNewland
Watching "Jane Eyre" with #JoanFontaine and #OrsonWelles
This gif is from "Rebecca" with JF and Laurence Olivier.
Tonight's Entertainment #rebecca #alfredhitchcock #JoanFontaine #LaurenceOlivier #JudithAnderson #GeorgeSanders #ReginaldDenny #GladysCooper #CAubreySmith #daphnedumaurier #bestpicture
OCTOBER 31ST
Born to Be Bad (1950)
directed by Nicholas Ray, written by Edith Sommer, Charles Schnee & Robert Soderberg
Joan Fontaine plays Christabel Caine Carey
Review: boxd.it/bycsyX
#JoanFontaine #BorntoBeBad #ChristabelCaineCarey #NicholasRay #1950film #FilmSky
OCTOBER 28TH
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
directed by Max Ophüls, written by Howard Koch
Joan Fontaine plays Lisa Berndle
Review: boxd.it/bwhYaF
#JoanFontaine #LetterfromanUnknownWoman #LisaBerndle #MaxOphüls #1948film #FilmSky
I like #Suspicion, but I hate that #CaryGrant calls #JoanFontaine "Monkeyface" so many times throughout the film. #TCMparty
OCTOBER 24TH
Ivy (1947)
directed by Sam Wood, written by Charles Bennett
Joan Fontaine plays Ivy Lexton
Review: boxd.it/btceER
#JoanFontaine #Ivy #IvyLexton #SamWood #1947film #FilmSky
On today’s #positive #podcast 4329 we play #trivia and a #goldenage of #radio #oldtimeradio #otr #audio #thriller starring #actress #joanfontaine who was born #onthisday #onthisdate #otd October 22, 1917. rileyandkimmyshow.blogspot.com/2025/10/podc...
"I hope I'll die on stage at the age at 105, playing Peter Pan."
🌹🎭 Remembering Hollywood legend #JoanFontaine, who was #BOTD 22 October 1917. #Film #Filmmaking
OCTOBER 20TH
Jane Eyre (1943)
directed by Robert Stevenson, written by John Houseman, Aldous Huxley & Robert Stevenson
Joan Fontaine plays Jane Eyre
Review: boxd.it/bqKbcL
#JoanFontaine #JaneEyre #RobertStevenson #1943film #FilmSky
OCTOBER 16TH
The Constant Nymph (1943)
directed by Edmund Goulding, written by Kathryn Scola
Joan Fontaine plays Tessa Sanger
Review: boxd.it/bnWEqJ
#JoanFontaine #TheConstantNymph #TessaSanger #EdmundGoulding #1943film #FilmSky
Revealing! Tense! THE BIGAMIST (1953) 6:45am drama #TPTVsubtitles
⭐ Stars #JoanFontaine #IdaLupino #EdmondOBrien #EdmundGwenn
OCTOBER 12TH
Suspicion (1941)
directed by Alfred Hitchcock, written by Samson Raphaelson, Joan Harrison & Alma Reville
Joan Fontaine plays Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth
Review: boxd.it/bliPVP
#JoanFontaine #Rebecca #LinaMcLaidlawAysgarth #AlfredHitchcock #1941film #FilmSky
