Joan Fontaine: A Bio-Bibliography (Bio-Bibliographies in the Performing Arts)
Celebrity VIP Lounge (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Director Spike Jonze is 40. Actress Joan Fontaine is 92. Actor Christopher Lloyd is 71. Actor Derek Jacobi is 71. Actor Tony Roberts is 70. Actress Annette Funicello is 67. Actress Catherine Deneuve is 66. Guitarist Leslie West of Mountain is 64. Actor Jeff Goldblum is 57. Bassist Cris Kirkwood of Meat Puppets is 49. Christian [...]
Liquor Barn's Party Line Blog (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Btms^ for October 22. Thursday: We like to think of it as Friday Eve! Drink Forecast for Today (DF 42day): Sheltowee Beers 2 toast 2 Daniel Boone, KY explorer, born 2day in 1734. FYI: Boone’s Indian name, Sheltowee, means “Little Turtle”. New Wine Arrivals @ Complimentary Wine Sips & Samples this week at Liquor Barns, Weekdays from 5 to [...]
21st Century Schizoid Man (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
On this day of Our Lord, 22 October, the following happened: I was born on the day that the British tested a nuclear device in Maralinga, Australia; I was one year old when US forces suffered their first casualty in Vietnam; I was six years old when President Kennedy announced the air and naval blockade of Cuba; I was seven years old (and living in Chicago!) when 225,000 students boycott Chicago schools...
Runs like a gay (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
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...
[CinemaRatty] Lattest Articles (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Whether you enjoy Hammers 1966 movie The Witches depends very much on what you expect from your horror movies. If you expect a film dripping with gore that will scare you out of your wits, then dont...
Empire News (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Sin Nombre director goes gothic
/Film (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
This is a bit unexpected; there have been a lot of possible next projects in the works for Sin Nombre director Cary Fukunaga. None of them were a new adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's novel Jane Eyre. But the deal to put Fukunaga in the director's chair for a new film version of the oft-adapted novel is reportedly close to finished. And thinking about the idea further, I've realized that it actually...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
'Rebecca' was Alfred Hitchcock's first Hollywood film and though he disowned it later it has stood the test of time.
Movie Talk (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
I’ve always had a thing for Hollywood movie star biographies, but I mean old-school Hollywood, like 1930s, 40s and 50s. Some great reads so far have been Ava Gardner - Love is Nothing by Lee Server, Bette and Joan: The Divine Feud by Shaun Considine, Rita Hayworth: If This Was Happiness by Barbara Leaming and Rock [...]
The Observer (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
No one can film a thriller quite like Alfred Hitchcock. Okay, Michael Jackson might give him a run for his money, but let's face it: Hitchcock is one of the quintessential thriller movie directors. You have not witnessed cinema until you have watched Hitchcock.
BrontëBlog (Free subscription) | 09/26/2009
In a special screening directly addressed to kids, today, September 26, at the British Film Institute: Jane Eyre by Robert Stevenson With Orson Welles and Joan Fontaine Sat 26 Sep 13:50 NFT2 Bronte's classic novel is given the full Hollywood treatment in this moody, atmospheric production. Jane Eyre has little family and is brought up in the household of her aunt Mrs Reed in a cold, unloving environment....
The Glittering Eye (Free subscription) | 09/17/2009
I’ve been thinking about this post for a long time, identifying candidates, and locating appropriate pictures. It will be the first of a series (Over 80, Over 70, etc.). I’m posting this entry first because, well, time’s a-wastin’. Hollywood has been an important arbiter of popular conceptions of beauty for nearly a century now. [...]
Channel 4 (Free subscription) | 09/17/2009
(1944) Magnificent classic film version of Charlotte Bronte's celebrated novel of love, madness and cruelty in Victorian Yorkshire, starring Orson Welles as the anguished Mr Rochester and Joan Fontaine in the title role of the demure governess. With Margaret O'Brien, Henry Daniell and John Sutton.
Fresh eyes on London (Free subscription) | 09/15/2009
Drama at Leytonstone. Today you have it all. Jealousy, fear and obsession. Alfred Hitchcock was born in this town (near the end of the central line. (That's the red one on the tube map for the out of towners). To mark one hundred years since the birth of their local hero, with the slightly odd upbringing, (No wonder he became fascinated with psychological thrillers) stunning mosaics depicting scenes...
Laura's Miscellaneous Musings (Free subscription) | 09/14/2009
Nicholas Ray 's BORN TO BE BAD is prime soap opera, performed by a top cast. It's a tremendously enjoyable piece of entertainment. Christabel Caine (Joan Fontaine) arrives in San Francisco to stay with her cousin Donna Foster (Joan Leslie) while taking a secretarial course. Christabel and Donna have never met, and although at first Christabel is all sweetness and light, Donna becomes increasingly uneasy...
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