Monday, December 16, 2013

Joan Fontaine: A Life in Film and Television


I want to start doing more of these types of tributes since I enjoyed putting the Peter O'Toole one together and ended up discovering some of his past works that I was not familiar with.



Looking at Ms. Fontaine's filmography 

it's a little shorter but still just as fascinating 

in that her prime was before I was born and 

for someone who prides themselves on being educated in 

the history of film this has been a most educational compilation.




1935
 No More Ladies
Caroline 'Carrie' Rumsey


Credited as Joan Burfield

1937
A Million to One
Joan Stevens

Quality Street
Charlotte Parratt
(uncredited)




The Man Who Found Himself
Nurse Doris King




You Can't Beat Love
Trudy Olson




Music for Madame
Jean Clemons



A Damsel in Distress
Lady Alyce Marshmorton


1938

Maid's Night Out
Sheila Harrison


Blond Cheat
Juliette 'Julie' Evans



Sky Giant
Meg Lawrence




The Duke of West Point
 Ann Porter



1939

Gunga Din
Emmy


Man of Conquest
Eliza Allen



The Woman
Mrs. John Day (Peggy)

 
1940 
Rebecca
The second Mrs. de Winter


New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress (3rd Place)
Nominated - Academy Award for Best Actress
1941
Suspicion
Lina


Academy Award for Best Actress
New York Film Critics Award for Best Actress
1942
This Above All
Prudence Cathaway

1943
The Constant Nymph
Tessa Sanger


Nominated - Academy Award for Best Actress

Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre (as an adult)


1944
Frenchman's Creek
Dona St. Columb


1945
The Affairs of Susan
Susan Darell


1946
From This Day Forward
Susan Cummings

1947
Ivy
Ivy

1948
Letter from an Unknown Woman
Lisa Berndie



The Emperor Waltz
Countess Johanna Augusta Franziska


You Gotta Stay Happy
Dee Dee Dilwood



Kiss the Blood Off My Hand
Jane Wharton



1950
September Affair
Marianne 'Manina' Stuart


Born to Be Bad
Christabel Caine Carey


1951

Darling, How Could You!
Alice Grey



1952

Something to Live For
Jenny Carey



Othello
Page
 (uncredited)



Ivanhoe
Rowena


1953

Decameron Nights
Flametta/Bartolomea/Ginevra/Isabella



Flight to Tangier
Susan Lane



The Bigamist
Eve Graham



Four Star Playhouse (Television)
Episode: "Trudy"
Episode: "The Girl on the Park Bench"
Trudy


Tea and Sympathy (Broadway)
Laura Reynolds


1954 
Casanova's Big Night (AKA: Mr. Casanova)
Francesca Bruni



1956

Serenade
Kendall Hale



Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
Susan Spencer



The Ford Television Theater (Television)
Episode: "Your Other Love"
Julie




The 20th Century Fox Hour (Television)
Episode: "Stranger In the Night"
Lynne Abbott



The Joseph Cotton Show (Television)
Episode: Fatal Charm
Episode: "The De Santre Story"
Adrienne



General Electric Theater (Television)
Episode: "A Possibility of Oil"
Linda Stacey
Episode: "The Story of Judith"
Judith
Episode: "At Miss Minner's"
Laurel Chapman
Episode: "The Victorian Chaise Lounge"
Melanie Langdon
Episode: "In Summer Promise"
Countess Irene Forell


1957

Island in the Sun
Mavis Norman



Until They Sail
Annelise


1958

A Certain Smile
Francoise Ferrand



1959

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (Television)
Episode: "Perilous"
Margaret Lewis



1960
Startime (Television)
Episode: "Closed Set"
Julie Forbes


Alcoa Presents: On Step Beyond (Television)
Episode: "The Visitor"
Ellen Grayson



1961

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea



The Light That Failed (TV Movie)
Hostess


Checkmate (Television)
Episode: "Voyage Into Fear"
Karen Lawson



1962

Tender is the Night



The Dick Powell Show (Television)
Episode: "The Clocks"
Valerie Baumer









1963

Wagon Train (Television)
Episode: "The Naomi Kaylor Story"
Naomi Kaylor



The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (Television)
Episode: "The Paragon"
Alice Pemberton



1965

The Bing Crosby Show (Television)
Episode: Operation Man Save"
Mrs. Taylor



1966

The Witches (AKA: The Devil's Own)




1968 - 1970

Forty Carats (Broadway)
Ann Stanley




1975

Cannon (Television)
Episode: "The Star"
Thelma Cain




1978

The Users (Television)
Grace St. George



1980
Ryan's Hope (Television)
5 Episodes



Nominated - Daytime Emmy Award Outstanding 
Guest/Cameo Appearance in a Daytime Drama Series

1981

The Love Boat (Television)
Episode: "Chef's Special/Beginning Anew/Kleinschmidt"
Jennifer Langley



1983

Bare Essence (Television)
Episode: "Hour Four"
Episode: "Hour Five"

Laura



1986

Hotel (Television)
Episode: "Harassed"
Ruth Easton



Dark Mansions (TV Film)
Margaret Drake


1994
Good King Wenceslas (TV Film)
Queen Ludmilla



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