Thanks so much for this upload. Absolutely fascinating recollections and insights from Miss Fontaine. So great to have had the opportunity to hear this!
Today would have been Joan's 105th Birthday ... Although Joan had a long Career in Film and TV ... She was Unbeatable as an Ingenue ... I wish that She had made 100 Movies between 1937 and 1947 ... She was Very good throughout her Entire Career ... but there was something Very Very Special about her during those years ... You were Drawn Right In ... I have Rebecca (1940) tied with two other movies for the Best Movie Ever ... And Suspicion (1941) is in my Top Five Movies ... In these two movies she costarred with two of Hollywood's biggest stars, Laurence Olivier (May 22 1907 - July 11 1989) and Cary Grant (January 18 1904 - November 29 1986) ... Yet both Movies were Hers ... Olivier and Grant were Subordinate Players ... How unusual (!) ... A few of her Bigger Movies are listed below: The Man Who Found Himself (1937) ** Damsel In Distress (1937) * Maid's Night Out (1938) ** The Women (1939) Gunga Din (1939) Rebecca (1940) ** Suspicion (1941) ** The Constant Nymph (1943) * Jane Eyre (1943) ** Ivy (1947) * Born To Be Bad (1950) * Ivanhoe (1952) * The Bigamist (1953) * Beyond A Reasonable Doubt (1956) * Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea (1961) The Witches (1966) * * Personal Favorite ** Personal Favorite + So Happy Birthday Joan Fontaine ... You Live Forever (!) ... Great Interview (!) ... Thanks for posting (!) ... October 22 2022 (2007 hrs)
While Joan wanted to be taken seriously as an actress, she also had other interests that she didn't want to neglect. By 1940, she was doing well enough financially that she tried to limit the number of projects she would accept so she could golf, fish, prepare gourmet meals, garden, travel, fly planes, and hot air balloons. For this reason, she didn't make as many pictures.
"They take making pictures as though it was some intellectual art form when it is really accidental and intuitive and emotional. And none of them seem to get that point. It's a creative art, it isn't an intellectual art at all. And I think that is one of the troubles with pictures today. They are being intellectualized, there's no joy in them, there's no romance, of course. There is no real fun. If it's a comic movie, it's likely to be coarse, slapstick, and to me, therefore, humorless. But not witty, there's no sophistication anymore in movies."
Love Fontaine's speaking voice
Thanks so much for this upload. Absolutely fascinating recollections and insights from Miss Fontaine. So great to have had the opportunity to hear this!
Today would have been Joan's 105th Birthday ...
Although Joan had a long Career in Film and TV ... She was Unbeatable as an Ingenue ... I wish that She had made 100 Movies between 1937 and 1947 ...
She was Very good throughout her Entire Career ... but there was something Very Very Special about her during those years ... You were Drawn Right In ...
I have Rebecca (1940) tied with two other movies for the Best Movie Ever ... And Suspicion (1941) is in my Top Five Movies ... In these two movies she costarred with two of Hollywood's biggest stars, Laurence Olivier (May 22 1907 - July 11 1989) and Cary Grant (January 18 1904 - November 29 1986) ... Yet both Movies were Hers ... Olivier and Grant were Subordinate Players ... How unusual (!) ...
A few of her Bigger Movies are listed below:
The Man Who Found Himself (1937) **
Damsel In Distress (1937) *
Maid's Night Out (1938) **
The Women (1939)
Gunga Din (1939)
Rebecca (1940) **
Suspicion (1941) **
The Constant Nymph (1943) *
Jane Eyre (1943) **
Ivy (1947) *
Born To Be Bad (1950) *
Ivanhoe (1952) *
The Bigamist (1953) *
Beyond A Reasonable Doubt (1956) *
Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea (1961)
The Witches (1966) *
* Personal Favorite
** Personal Favorite +
So Happy Birthday Joan Fontaine ... You Live Forever (!) ...
Great Interview (!) ... Thanks for posting (!) ...
October 22 2022 (2007 hrs)
While Joan wanted to be taken seriously as an actress, she also had other interests that she didn't want to neglect. By 1940, she was doing well enough financially that she tried to limit the number of projects she would accept so she could golf, fish, prepare gourmet meals, garden, travel, fly planes, and hot air balloons. For this reason, she didn't make as many pictures.
"They take making pictures as though it was some intellectual art form when it is really accidental and intuitive and emotional. And none of them seem to get that point. It's a creative art, it isn't an intellectual art at all. And I think that is one of the troubles with pictures today. They are being intellectualized, there's no joy in them, there's no romance, of course. There is no real fun. If it's a comic movie, it's likely to be coarse, slapstick, and to me, therefore, humorless. But not witty, there's no sophistication anymore in movies."