Joan Fontaine

Finally, The Witches, directed by Cyril Frankel, explores psychological and supernatural horror through a more contemporary lens.

In her final big-screen role, Joan Fontaine plays a former missionary who becomes entangled in increasingly sinister events after moving to a quiet English village.

While the film never reaches the height of Hammer's more celebrated efforts, it is laudable for continuing to take risks and break ground for future occult-themed efforts such as The Devil Rides Out.

Join us as we step back 60 years to delight in the monstrous, magical, murderous, and mesozoic world of Hammer.

Let's plunge ahead to our final film.

I didn't save the best for last.

It just happened to be the last, and that's The Witches, starring Joan Fontaine.

What are people's thoughts about The Witches?

De Winter has never complained.

Judith Anderson as the formidable Mrs Danvers and Joan Fontaine as the second Mrs de Winter.

Mrs Danvers is now the inspiration for a new novel by Rose Tremaine called The Housekeeper, which imagines a kind of backstory for Mrs Danvers.

There is passion, mystery and a love affair between the mysterious Polish-Jewish housekeeper and Daphne du Maurier herself.

Vivian Leigh and Robert Taylor first starred in the Oscar-nominated motion picture.

Joan Fontaine and Brian Ahern take over the roles next in the CBS episode from January 12, 1941.

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Gulf Screen Guild Theater.

Good evening, everyone.

Your neighborhood Good Gulf dealer and the Gulf Oil Company welcome you to the Gulf Screen Guild Theater.

Tonight, we're privileged to present one of the most beautiful plays and motion pictures of all time, Waterloo Bridge, starring Joan Fontaine and Brian Ahern.

It's a dramatic love story against a background of thrilling music by Oscar Bradley's Gulf Orchestra with Frank Tours conducting.

We will return to Escape in just a moment.

Academy Award winner Joan Fontaine will be your star in Leave Her to Heaven on the Lux Summer Theater on CBS Radio tomorrow evening.

You'll enjoy this celebrated story of a ruthless woman who destroys the things she loves.

And you'll like Joan Fontaine in this dramatic role.

That's Leave Her to Heaven, starring Joan Fontaine, tomorrow evening's Lux Summer Theater show on most of these same CBS radio stations.

And now, back to Escape.

Escape

[laughs] This film is an adaptation, uh, of a, of a popular novel, uh, from, from this, uh, time, Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca.

Um, it's the story of a, uh, young woman, uh, uh, unnamed, Mrs. de Winter, uh, as she becomes, played by Joan Fontaine, who meets, uh, a, an heir, I guess, uh, well, you know, just an aristocrat, uh, named Maxim de Winter, played by Laurence Olivier, while, uh, accompanying a, uh, a rich woman.

She's a paid companion on vacation.

They have a, uh, you know, a very quick meeting to romance to-

[laughs]

... we've got, uh...

So sh- Joan Fontaine lost for Rebecca.

Ginger Rogers won for Kitty Foyle.

This picture stars Walter Pigeon as Admiral Nelson, and due to the success of this movie, it was made into a TV series a couple of years later.

But this is a 1961 film with Barbara Eden, Walter Pigeon, Peter Lorre, Joan Fontaine, Michael and Sarah, and Howard McNeil, who was Floyd the Barber on The Andy Griffith Show.

So that's worth reviewing, and that's what we're going to do next week.

Sounds great.

Marshal, fights to bring law and order out of the wild violence of the West in Gunsmoke.

This Monday night, the Lux Radio Theater brings Joan Fontaine and Charlton Heston to its microphone, co-starring in The President's Lady.

That's on the Lux Radio Theater, the same night CBS Radio stars John Hodiak in Suspense's production of Hellfire.

Yes, Monday night on most of these same CBS Radio stations.

Now, Lamar was not the first choice.

They initially wanted Joan Fontaine, but David O. Selznick, my favorite crackhead, went, No! No! So as a result, they go with loaning out, getting Lamar from MGM.

Louis B. Mayer is a piece of shit, but he's much more reasonable than his son-in-law.

Where is this in her