Comments on: Joan Fontaine: You Don’t Know Me

By: Stork Club

Stork Club — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 19:23:44 +0000

I remember her Bufferin commercial “more effective than aspirin”

By: Bettye

Bettye — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 21:48:52 +0000

I finally have received a copy of “The Constant Nymph.” I’ve read and heard about this film for so long. When that happens, I am usually disappointed but not this time! I loved the film, especially Joan Fontaine’s performance. The music is great and I enjoyed Boyer’s acting, but it is Fontaine’s film. Her acting is nuanced and totally believable. She a very underrated and underappreciated film actress in my opinion.

By: Bettye

Bettye — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 21:28:08 +0000

Just read your blog about Joan Fontaine’s films. At long last I finally got a VHS copy of “The Constant Nymph.” I’d heard and read so much about the film and when that happens, I am usually disappointed. Not this time though. Joan was so believable, charming, and poignant. I wish I could get a really good copy, preferable a DVD but I know that is highly unlikely given the legal matters concerning the movie. Joan is a terrific actress and an actress who is undervalued and underappreciated, in my opinion.

By: TCM’s Movie Blog

TCM’s Movie Blog — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 11:42:38 +0000

[...] Of the Hollywood films, one was a bright entertainment, the unjustly neglected The Exile with Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. in 1947. Two were flawed but engaging attempts at film noirs, Caught (1949) with Robert Ryan, and The Reckless Moment (1949) both starred James Mason at the start of his U.S. career. In the latter film Ophüls also evoked a fine performance as a desperate, respectable housewife from one of the most interesting actresses of the ’40s, Joan Bennett. The director also made one possible masterpiece, Letter from an Unknown Woman in 1948 with Joan Fontaine. [...]

By: Al Lowe

Al Lowe — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:29:50 +0000

I’m sorry. I should have looked closer. It is you, Moira, not Medusa. I know you admire her writing so I hope you don’t mind the mistake.

By: Al Lowe

Al Lowe — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:27:16 +0000

I was reading old Morlock blogs and thought I’d add my two cents here. Joan Fontaine, in her best films, seemed to be a complex individual.

I share one thing with her. Her birthday, October 22. (Obviously I don’t share the same year. I was born decades later.)

An interesting cast of characters was born on Oct. 22. All of them, with one notable exception, were complex, easily misunderstood individuals. All Libras on the cusp of Scorpio.

Christopher Lloyd, Catherine Deneuve, Constance Bennett, Timothy Leary. John Reed, the American journalist buried in Russia and portrayed by Warren Beatty in Reds.

The exception is Annette Funicello, the Mousketeer who promotes peanut butter. Maybe there’s more to her than when we know although I kind of doubt it.

I was born into a family of Leos, with whom I sometimes squabble, so I was always sympathetic to Joan’s problems with Leo Olivia DeHaviland.

I know it’s not a good movie but I usually watch Born to be Bad when it’s on because Joan looked so beautiful.

And, Medusa, I hope your day is going well.

By: Sonja

Sonja — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 15:40:33 +0000

Thanks for the URL to the Joan Fontaine Proust Interview. Yesterday I went to the bookstore and purchased a copy to keep in my memoribilia collection. That deHavilland family must have great genes. I think Mr. deHavilland lived to be in his late nineties. I hope Joan does too if she can be in good health and mentally alert.

By: moira

moira — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:59:29 +0000

Hi Bob,Thanks for mentioning the Proust questionnaire answered by Ms. Fontaine for Vanity Fair's Hollywood issue. Happily, this talented lady seems to be doing very well indeed at age 90. Here's a link to the q & a featuring Joan Fontaine:http://tinyurl.com/2g89coCordially,Moira 

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:29:46 +0000

I just saw the March 2008 Vanity Fair issue dedicated to Hitchcock and lo and behold there was Joan Fontaine featured on the Proust Questionnaire. So great to see a recent picture of her. She looks amazing and not much different than when she was making films, except for the white or grey hair. Joan was always a lovely, beautiful woman and I enjoyed her answers too. Besides being beautiful she was a most talented actress.

By: Kristine

Kristine — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 16:09:17 +0000

Does anyone have the physical address of TCM and the name of the chief person in charge of either programming or TCM as a whole? I would like to write them regarding "The Constant Nymph." Perhaps if many people write, then they will try harder to get the rights to show this movie.