Showing posts with label Joan Fontaine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Joan Fontaine. Show all posts

Saturday, 22 October 2011

Joan Fontaine


Happy Birthday to

Joan Fontaine

94 today


I've been thinking a lot about the Golden age of Romantic cinema recently, so it's seems fitting to celebrate a birthday of one of the great stars of her time, and one of the few legendary beauties still with us. Best remembered for her collaborations with Hitch (Rebecca , pictured, and Suspicion) Joan's look of fragility and grace in the soft focus glow of the 40's is a reminder of what the studio system did best - create stars we could only dream of being.

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Thursday, 22 October 2009

Joan Fontaine


Happy Birthday to

Joan Fontaine

92 today


The second Mrs. de Winter has really proved Mrs Danvers and the rest of that strange household wrong by surviving well into her 90's. Last night I dreamed I went to Manderlay...

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