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Joan Fontaine
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Fontaine starred in numerous well-remembered films, including Letter from an Unknown Woman with Louis Jourdan, Jane Eyre with Orson Welles, and Ivy with Patric Knowles. She remained a high-profile star until reaching middle age, when she was no longer offered interesting parts. She turned to television, making many appearances on live plays and anthology series, and she had brief success on Broadway when she replaced Deborah Kerr in the lead of Tea and Sympathy with Anthony Perkins.
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Joan felt uncomfortable in Walter's house with his new, subservient wife. However, she enjoyed going to school, where she found that she was much worldlier than her fellow students were. She began to date, and for a year she was mostly content. Joan's Tokyo life ended when she rejected her father's incestuous advances. He gave her $50 and put her on a ship back to San Francisco.
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Synopsis: In this period drama, Joan Fontaine stars as Ivy Lexton, a woman with an unusual hunger for men. Though she already has a husband, Jervis (Richard Ney), and is having an affair with Roger Gretorex (Patric Knowles), Ivy becomes obsessed with Miles Rushworth (Herbert Marshall), and is determined toRead More
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Cary Grant stars as a suave playboy who swoops into shy Joan Fontaine's life. They marry and Fontaine begins to suspect that her new husband is a murderer and that she may be his next target. Grant was arguably Hitchcock's greatest leading man, harboring a hint of darkness under his slick, charming facade, but his implicit star power kept him from actually being the murderer. (The fans would never stand for it.) Hitchcock later complained about this conundrum in the famous "Hitchcock/Truffaut" book. Nevertheless, the director does some wonderful things with the picture up until the ludicrous ending. Still you can't help feeling a vague disappointment with the whole enterprise.
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Synopsis: Wealthy, sheltered Joan Fontaine is swept off her feet by charming ne'er-do-well Cary Grant. Though warned that Grant is little more than a fortune-hunter, Fontaine marries him anyway. She remains loyal to her irresponsible husband as he plows his way from one disreputable business scheme toRead More
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Her father's business took him all over Europe, and Joan went to high school in Paris. She attended Chapman College but left shortly thereafter to pursue a show business career. She worked as a back-up singer for Sam Phillips and worked as a secretary to make ends meet while she went to casting calls.
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