Joan Fontaine News

It was a perfect night for foul play. A cold front hidden by a black-slate cloak of persistent rain was moving stealthily up the Sound to settle over the New England countryside.

Action, romance and humor. Tickles your funny bone. Bachelor with sobriety flaws encounters teacher traveling with seven children; daughters of foreign diplomats.

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.

A Hitchcock special -- a creamy, thick, sweetish blend of genres, with ingredients from detective stories , Gothic thrillers , and tearjerkers .

Duration: 1:39:35 CC TVPG Joan Fontaine gives an Oscar-winning performance as wealthy but shy Lina McLaidlaw, a woman who thinks she has found her true love in Johnny Aysgarth , a handsome gambler she meets on a train when he tries to travel first class with a third class ticket.

If you watch the trailer for Jim Jarmusch 's new film, The Limits of Control , there's one point where Tilda Swinton - donning a snow-white wig, cowboy hat, and trenchcoat accompanied by a clear plastic umbrella on a sunny day for seemingly no other reason than the wardrobe's photogenic appeal, like Swinton herself - states the following over ...

The film version of Frances Iles' Before the Fact , Alfred Hitchcocka s 'Suspicion' is a sordid look at a wife suspecting her husband of murder.

Even Alfred Hitchcock gets a run: Rebecca , 1940, starring Judith Anderson and Joan Fontaine features in the B For Bad Cinema film conference.

"Rebecca" stars Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine. The West Hartford Public Library's well-selected, and well-attended, series of free film screenings will begin a new chapter on Monday with a five-film run of ...

Women are portrayed in mystery movies very differently depending on social attitudes and expectations.

DVD In 1939, the much admired George Cukor directed an all-female cast of contract players that included Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Paulette Goddard, and Joan Fontaine in a film about ...