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> <channel><title>Alt Film Guide &#187; Joan Fontaine</title> <atom:link href="http://www.altfg.com/blog/tag/joan-fontaine/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog</link> <description>The Oscars, film awards, new releases, Los Angeles screenings, movie classics, gay movies, film festivals, box office, foreign and independent films</description> <lastBuildDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:29:41 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <item><title>Alfred Hitchcock/REBECCA Remake</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/alfred-hitchcock-rebecca-remake-joan-fontaine/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/alfred-hitchcock-rebecca-remake-joan-fontaine/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:03:12 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=37182</guid> <description><![CDATA[Hollywood has been running out of ideas since filmmakers started making movies in Hollywood. Even the first &#34;official&#34; movie made in Hollywood proper, Cecil B. DeMille's 1914 Western The Squaw Man, wasn't an original story. DeMille's Western was based on Edwin Milton Royle's play. And prior to that, there had been movie shorts with titles such as The Squaw and the Man (1910), Cow-boy and [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/alfred-hitchcock-rebecca-remake-joan-fontaine/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Joan Fontaine on TCM: JANE EYRE, SUSPICION, THE CONSTANT NYMPH</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/joan-fontaine-jane-eyre-suspicion-the-constant-nymph/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/joan-fontaine-jane-eyre-suspicion-the-constant-nymph/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:04:55 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=36992</guid> <description><![CDATA[Joan Fontaine in Alfred Hitchcock's Suspicion Joan Fontaine, who turned 94 last October 22, shines on Turner Classic Movies' tonight. TCM will be showing five Fontaine movies: Jane Eyre (1944), The Constant Nymph (1943), Born to Be Bad (1950), Suspicion (1941), and Ivanhoe (1952). I've yet to check out The Constant Nymph, which had been unavailable for decades until TCM presented it a few months [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/joan-fontaine-jane-eyre-suspicion-the-constant-nymph/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Joan Fontaine-Charles Boyer in Rare THE CONSTANT NYMPH on TCM</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/joan-fontaine-charles-boyer-the-constant-nymph/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/joan-fontaine-charles-boyer-the-constant-nymph/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 00:58:57 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35261</guid> <description><![CDATA[Edmund Goulding's The Constant Nymph, a 1943 romantic drama starring Oscar nominee Joan Fontaine, Charles Boyer, and Alexis Smith, will be shown tonight on Turner Classic Movies at 5 p.m. PT as part of TCM's tribute to the Library of Congress Film Archive. Tied up in legal complications for decades, The Constant Nymph will have its TCM premiere tonight. [In August 2010, The Constant Nymph [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/joan-fontaine-charles-boyer-the-constant-nymph/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Doris Day, Danielle Darrieux, Joan Fontaine, Barbra Streisand: Honorary Oscars and Women Pt.2</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/doris-day-danielle-darrieux-barbra-streisand-honorary-oscar/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/doris-day-danielle-darrieux-barbra-streisand-honorary-oscar/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 10:42:59 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=17271</guid> <description><![CDATA[Danielle Darrieux in Max Ophüls' La Ronde (top); Darrieux, Isabelle Huppert in François Ozon's 8 Women (bottom) Honorary Oscars Bypass Women: Part I Among the female film veterans with more than three decades of screen work and who have yet to receive an Honorary Oscar for career achievement are actresses Danielle Darrieux (nearly eight decades in films, and still active), Doris Day, Michèle Morgan, Julie [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/doris-day-danielle-darrieux-barbra-streisand-honorary-oscar/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Alfred Hitchcock&#039;s REBECCA, Gene Tierney&#039;s DRAGONWYCK, Horror Omnibus DEAD OF NIGHT on TCM</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/alfred-hitchcock-rebecca-gene-tierney-dragonwyck-dead-of-night/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/alfred-hitchcock-rebecca-gene-tierney-dragonwyck-dead-of-night/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 00:04:07 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=25415</guid> <description><![CDATA[Michael Redgrave in the &#34;The Ventriloquist's Dummy&#34; segment in Dead of Night (top); Gene Tierney in Joseph L. Mankiewicz's Dragonwyck (middle); Joan Fontaine, Judith Anderson in Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca (bottom) Turner Classic Movies' horror/mystery/suspense Halloween marathon kicks off this evening with a showing of the 1945 British classic Dead of Night, which, 65 years later, remains one of the best efforts in the psychological-horror genre. [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/alfred-hitchcock-rebecca-gene-tierney-dragonwyck-dead-of-night/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Edmund Goulding&#039;s THE CONSTANT NYMPH: Packard Campus&#039; August 2010 Highlight</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/edmund-goulding-the-constant-nymph-rare-screening/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/edmund-goulding-the-constant-nymph-rare-screening/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 01:24:56 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=24889</guid> <description><![CDATA[The Constant Nymph, Edmund Goulding's hard-to-find 1943 romantic drama starring Charles Boyer and Joan Fontaine, is the highlight of the August 2010 screenings at the Library of Congress' Packard Campus Theater in Culpeper, Virg. [Full Schedule.] Joan Fontaine received her third and last Best Actress Oscar nomination for her role as a teenager in love with a musician (Boyer). Rights issues have kept The Constant [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/edmund-goulding-the-constant-nymph-rare-screening/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Robert Taylor on TCM: QUO VADIS, IVANHOE, the Atomic Bomb</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/robert-taylor-quo-vadis-ivanhoe/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/robert-taylor-quo-vadis-ivanhoe/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 22:37:43 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=23995</guid> <description><![CDATA[Robert Taylor, Joan Fontaine in Richard Thorpe's Ivanhoe (lower photo) Robert Taylor had some trouble early in his career because he was considered too pretty, with some complaining that he wore more makeup than Greta Garbo in Camille. As a result, MGM toughened him up in subsequent vehicles such as The Crowd Roars (1938), Billy the Kid (1941) and Johnny Eager (1942). By the 1950s, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/robert-taylor-quo-vadis-ivanhoe/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Olivia de Havilland on Joan Fontaine</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movies-431/olivia-de-havilland-joan-fontaine/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movies-431/olivia-de-havilland-joan-fontaine/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 03:14:12 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=23782</guid> <description><![CDATA[Olivia de Havilland (top); Joan Fontaine in Suspicion (bottom) Olivia de Havilland is the subject of an interview published in the London Evening Standard about a week ago. The piece is a must-read. Discussed are de Havilland's youth, her early years in Los Angeles, Errol Flynn, Gone with the Wind, the Academy Awards, and &#8212; tangentially &#8212; her relationship with sister Joan Fontaine. &#34;It is [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movies-431/olivia-de-havilland-joan-fontaine/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>8</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Louis Jourdan, Joan Fontaine, Max Ophüls&#039; LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN on TCM</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movies-431/louis-jourdan-letter-from-an-unknown-woman/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movies-431/louis-jourdan-letter-from-an-unknown-woman/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 00:26:38 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=23779</guid> <description><![CDATA[Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan Letter from an Unknown Woman Louis Jourdan is Turner Classic Movies' star of the evening, which has just kicked off with a showing of Vincente Minnelli's 1958 multiple Oscar-winning musical Gigi, co-starring Leslie Caron and Maurice Chevalier. But the highlight of the Louis Jourdan evening comes later, with the 7:15 p.m. (Pacific Time) TCM premiere of Max Ophüls' haunting Letter from [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movies-431/louis-jourdan-letter-from-an-unknown-woman/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Cary Grant, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. in GUNGA DIN Screening</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/gunga-din-cary-grant-douglas-fairbanks-jr/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/gunga-din-cary-grant-douglas-fairbanks-jr/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:14:03 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=13262</guid> <description><![CDATA[George Stevens' rousingly politically incorrect &#8212; and for the most part much admired &#8212; action-adventure tale Gunga Din will have a special screening on Friday, June 12, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. Prior to the film, Oscar winners Ben Burtt and Craig Barron will discuss the sound and visual effects used in [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/gunga-din-cary-grant-douglas-fairbanks-jr/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Best Films &#8211; 1940</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1940/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1940/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 17:57:53 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=4331</guid> <description><![CDATA[Henry Fonda in The Grapes of Wrath FILM The Blue Bird d: Walter Lang; scr: Ernest Pascal The Grapes of Wrath d: John Ford; scr: Nunnally Johnson Kitty Foyle d: Sam Wood; scr: Dalton Trumbo The Letter d: William Wyler; scr: Howard Koch The Mark of Zorro d: Rouben Mamoulian; scr: John Tainton Foote, Garrett Fort, Bess Meredyth Pinocchio d: Hamilton Luske, Ben Sharpsteen; scr: [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1940/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>George Stevens DVDs: GUNGA DIN, I REMEMBER MAMA</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/george-stevens-on-dvd/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/george-stevens-on-dvd/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2004 04:13:52 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/george-stevens-on-dvd/</guid> <description><![CDATA[On December 7, Warner Home Video releases for the first time on DVD four titles by (or about) Academy Award-winning director George Stevens: Gunga Din (right, 1939), an adventure tale with Cary Grant, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Victor McLaglen, and Joan Fontaine; I Remember Mama (1948), a family drama with Oscar-nominated Irene Dunne delivering one of the best performances of her remarkable career (as the remembered [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/george-stevens-on-dvd/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Best Films – 1948</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1948/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1948/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2004 11:08:27 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=11623</guid> <description><![CDATA[Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan in Letter from an Unknown Woman FILM Anna Karenina d: Julien Duvivier; scr: Jean Anouilh, Guy Morgan, Julien Duvivier Cry of the City d: Robert Siodmak; scr: Richard Murphy Johnny Belinda d: Jean Negulesco; scr: Irmgard von Cube, Allen Vincent Key Largo d: John Huston; scr: Richard Brooks, John Huston Ladri di biciclette / The Bicycle Thief d: Vittorio De Sica; [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1948/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Best Films – 1946</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1946/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1946/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2004 12:06:25 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=11621</guid> <description><![CDATA[Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford in Gilda FILM Anna and the King of Siam d: John Cromwell; scr: Talbot Jennings, Sally Benson The Best Years of Our Lives d: William Wyler; scr: Robert E. Sherwood Cloak and Dagger d: Fritz Lang; scr: Albert Maltz, Ring Lardner Jr. From This Day Forward d: John Berry; scr: Hugo Butler, Garson Kanin Gilda d: Charles Vidor; scr: Marion Parsonnet [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1946/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
