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Joan Fontaine
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Joan Fontaine was born Joan deBeauvoir de Havilland in Tokyo, Japan on October 22, 1917. Joan began her acting career in her late teens with various west coast stage companies under the name Joan Burfield. She ... used that name when she made her feature film debut in No More Ladies, 1935 in which she had a minor role. In 1937, she appeared on the screen as Joan Fontaine, however, primarily in B movies. Two exceptions were A Damsel in Distress, 1937 opposite Fred Astaire and Gunga Din, 1939 opposite Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
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Joan Fontaine, the only daughter of a retired english general, is 27 years old and lives secluded with her books and her parents in a small english town. She is seduced by Cary Grant, a charming gambler and playboy who marries her. As they return from their honeymoon, Joan -Lina- Fontaine discovers that Cary Grant doesn't have any money at all. She convinces him to accept a job but Cary Grant prefers to gamble at the horse races. Lina then accidentally learns that Cary Grant has stolen from his new employer's accounts and that he doesn't go to work anymore. Her love for him is so powerful that she accepts his lies about it. Having a new idea , Cary -Johnnie- Grant persuades his friend Beaky to invest money in a real estate operation that should make both of them rich but Beaky dies in France in strange circumstances.
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Synopsis: It all begins when popular actress Susan Darrell (Joan Fontaine) returns from a USO tour to marry business exectuive Richard Aiken (Walter Abel). During his bachelor party, Aiken commisserates with Susan's ex-husband, Broadway producer Roger Berton (George Brent), and two of her formerRead More
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From the first day on Jourdan has moved in the building, Joan Fontaine, a 12 years old child then, has fallen in love with him. She's devoted her entire life to Jourdan without his noticing. Over the years, she's met him twice but he didn't recognize her the second time.
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Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland (aka Joan Fontaine) was born on October 22, 1917, in Tokyo, Japan, in what was known as the International Settlement. Her father was a British patent attorney with a lucrative practice in Japan, but due to Joan and her older sister's (Olivia de Havilland) recurring ailments the family moved to California in the hopes of improving their health. Mrs. de Havilland and the two girls settled in Saratoga while their father went back to his practice in Japan. Joan's parents did not get along well and a divorce soon followed. Mrs. de Havilland had a desire to be an actress but her dream was curtailed when she married. Now she hoped to pass on her dream to Olivia and Joan.
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The film opens before the credits, as African missionary school teacher Gwen Mayfield (Joan Fontaine) is attacked in her school by voodoo practitioners who want her to leave their village. Gwen is traumatized by that incident to return to England and recover from her nervous breakdown. Answering an ad in the newspaper after a few years of getting it together again, Gwen is hired by Alan Bax (Alec McCowen) to be headmistress of a country private school that is run by Alan and his journalist sister Stephanie (Kay Walsh). The wealthy but kinky Alan appears dressed as a priest and in his home he arranges his private study as a church with taped organ music, but it turns out he's not a minister. He wanted to be one, but was rejected.
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