Movies by Joan Fontaine
As part of the cast:
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The Witches (1967)
Cast: Joan Fontaine, Kay Walsh, Alec McCowen …
Directed by: Cyril Frankel
Gwen Mayfield (Joan Fontaine) is the newly appointed headmistress of lovely Haddaby Academy. But not everything is scones and cream when Gwen finds a coven of witches is working overtime…
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Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961)
Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Joan Fontaine, Barbara Eden …
Directed by: Irwin Allen
Walter Pidgeon plays the designer and builder of a nuclear submarine called upon to fire its missiles on the Van Allen radiation belt to put out the fire raging there that threatens to…
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Island in the Sun (1957)
Cast: James Mason, Joan Fontaine, Dorothy Dandridge …
Directed by: Robert Rossen
With a steamy Caribbean isle as a backdrop, director Robert Rossen's racially charged drama boils over with intrigue. When Maxwell Fleury (James Mason), the son of a moneyed family,…
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Casanova's Big Night (1954)
Cast: Bob Hope, Joan Fontaine, Audrey Dalton …
Directed by: Norman Z. McLeod
When Casanova (Vincent Price) flees town to elude his creditors, unassuming tailor's assistant Pippo Popolino (Bob Hope) is tapped to impersonate the legendary Italian lover and…
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The Bigamist (1953)
Cast: Joan Fontaine, Ida Lupino, Edmund Gwenn …
Directed by: Ida Lupino
While away on business, Harry Graham (Edmond O'Brien) hops a Hollywood tour bus. Sitting next to him is a tough-talking waitress, Phyllis Martin (Ida Lupino). He lights her cigarette…
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Flight To Tangier (1953)
Cast: Joan Fontaine, Jack Palance, Corinne Calvet …
Directed by: Charles Marquis Warren
When a plane bound for Tangier crash-lands and bursts into flames but leaves behind no survivors -- or dead bodies -- to speak of, a group of people with ties to its precious cargo set out to…
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Ivanhoe (1952)
Cast: Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine …
Directed by: Richard Thorpe
Wilfred of Ivanhoe (Robert Taylor) challenges the corrupt Norman monarchy of Prince John (Guy Rolfe) and his minions, De Bois-Guilbert (George Sanders) and De Bracy (Robert Douglas) -- with…
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Something to Live For (1952)
Cast: Joan Fontaine, Ray Milland, Teresa Wright …
Directed by: George Stevens
While battling his own demons, recovering alcoholic Alan Miller is called in to save Jenny Carey, a depressed actress drowning her sorrows in booze. The two lost souls fall in love, but they…
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Darling, How Could You! (1951)
Cast: Joan Fontaine, John Lund, Mona Freeman …
Directed by: Mitchell Leisen
Based on a J.M. Barrie play, this genial comedy follows physician Robert Grey (John Lund) and his wife, Alice (Joan Fontaine), as they return to New York City after a long absence and are…
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September Affair (1950)
Cast: Joan Fontaine, Joseph Cotten, Françoise Rosay …
Directed by: William Dieterle
When they are mistakenly listed among the dead on a flight that crashes en route to Rome, married businessman David Lawrence (Joseph Cotten) and classical pianist Marianne Stuart (Joan…
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court / The Emperor Waltz (1948)
Cast: Bing Crosby, Rhonda Fleming, Joan Fontaine …
Directed by: Tay Garnett, Billy Wilder
Johnny Burke "musicalizes" Mark Twain's classic story, with Bing Crosby as a mechanic who gets transported into the past and ends up a wisecracking wizard in King Arthur's court. In…
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Jane Eyre (1944)
Cast: Orson Welles, Joan Fontaine, Margaret O'Brien …
Directed by: Robert Stevenson
Orson Welles stars as Edward Rochester, the brooding employer of governess Jane Eyre in this adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's novel. Young Jane slowly frees Edward from his…
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Suspicion (1941)
Cast: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Cedric Hardwicke …
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Shy and beautiful Lina (Joan Fontaine, in an Oscar-winning performance) falls head over heels for handsome gambler Johnnie (Cary Grant) -- but after the couple elopes, she begins to fear for…
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Rebecca (1940)
Cast: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders …
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
The only Alfred Hitchcock film to win an Oscar for Best Picture, this mystery stars Laurence Olivier as Maxim de Winter, a widower whose hapless second wife (Joan Fontaine) moves into his…
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Gunga Din (1939)
Cast: Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. …
Directed by: George Stevens
Three British soldiers -- Sgt. Cutter (Cary Grant), Sgt. Ballantine (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) and Sgt. McChesney (Victor McLaglen) -- are sent to India to investigate sabotaged telegraph wires.…
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The Women (1939)
Cast: Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell …
Directed by: George Cukor
George Cukor directs an all-female cast in this catty tale about battling and bonding between friends and enemies that was edgy for its time -- and is considered the ultimate women's…
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This Above All / Second Honeymoon (1937)
Cast: Tyrone Power, Loretta Young, Stuart Erwin …
Directed by: Anatole Litvak, Walter Lang
Hollywood legend Tyrone Power showcases both his dramatic and his comedic acting skills with performances in these two classics. In This Above All, a conscientious objector (Power) dates a…
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Million to One (1936)
Cast: Bruce Bennett, Joan Fontaine, Reed Howes …
Directed by: Lynn Shores
When Olympic medal winner John Kent is stripped of his award on a technicality, he begins training his young son, Johnny, to make it to the Olympics. In time, Johnny becomes a world-class…