Letter from an Unknown Woman News

No 69: Joan Fontaine, 1917- Joan Fontaine was a delicately feminine adornment in movies for nearly 30 years and a fine actress.

In one of Max Ophulsa s most elegant films, and arguably the most written-about example of female voice-over in classical Hollywood cinema, the eponymous letter is a sublime and ultimately Siren-like call from the beyond.

A dashingly handsome French actor, Louis Jourdan trained for the stage under Rene Simon in Paris in the 1930s and made his film debut in 1939's "Le Corsaire". His budding career was cut short by World War II when his.... A dashingly handsome French actor, Louis Jourdan trained for the stage under Rene Simon in Paris in the 1930s and made his film ...

The rampant female masochism of "Letter from an Unknown Woman" has always mitigated against my full pleasure of Max Ophuls' artistry, and the extraordinary photography of Franz Planer.