Joan Fontaine Articles

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 — tangentially — her relationship with sister Joan Fontaine. "It is [...]

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 [...]