Joan Fontaine — Actor (26)
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Casanova's Big Night (1954) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Casanova's Big Night
director: Norman Z. McLeod actor: Bob Hope / Joan Fontaine …
other title: La grande notte di Casanova / Der Schürzenjäger von Venedig …
Italy 1757, Pippo Popolino, a lowly tailor, disguises himself as the great Casanova in order to romance the attractive widow Francesca. He little suspects what awaits him... Locked into the incongruous role by the desperation of the real Casanova's creditors, Pippo must journey to Venice on a delicate mission far beyond his capabilities.
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The Users (1978) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Users
director: Joseph Hardy actor: Jaclyn Smith / Tony Curtis …
other title: El laberinto de oro
A beautiful girl from a small town with dreams of making it in Hollywood marries an actor whose career is fading, then schemes to get him back into the big time - and her with him.
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Blond Cheat (1938) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Blond Cheat
director: Joseph Santley actor: Joan Fontaine / Derrick De Marney …
other title: El engaño de una rubia
Socially prominent Michael Ashburn, chief assistant for a London loan broker makes a large loan during a closing time to a man for a pair of earrings. He is unaware that the collateral can not be removed from the ears in which they reside, so then Julie becomes part of the collateral.
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Born to Be Bad (1950) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Born to Be Bad
director: Nicholas Ray actor: Joan Fontaine / Robert Ryan …
other title: La seduttrice / La Femme aux Maléfices …
Christabel Caine has the face of angel and the heart of a swamp rat. She'll step on anyone to get what she wants, including her own family. A master of manipulation, she covertly breaks off the engagement of her trusting cousin, Donna, to her fabulously wealthy beau, Curtis Carey. Once married to Curtis herself, Christabel continues her affair with novelist Nick Bradley, who knows she's evil, but loves her anyway.
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Ivanhoe (1952) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Ivanhoe
director: Richard Thorpe actor: Robert Taylor / Elizabeth Taylor …
other title: Ivanhoe - Der schwarze Ritter / Ivanhoé …
Sir Walter Scott's classic story of the chivalrous Ivanhoe who joins with Robin of Locksley in the fight against Prince John and for the return of King Richard the Lionheart.
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A Damsel in Distress (1937) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
A Damsel in Distress
director: George Stevens actor: Fred Astaire / George Burns …
other title: Una magnifica avventura / Ein Fräulein in Nöten …
Lady Alyce Marshmorton must marry soon, and the staff of Tottney Castle have laid bets on who she'll choose, with young Albert wagering on 'Mr. X'. After Alyce goes to London to meet a beau she is restricted to the castle to curb her scandalous behavior. Albert then summons Jerry to Alyce's aid in order to 'protect his investment'.
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Gunga Din (1939) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Gunga Din
director: George Stevens actor: Cary Grant / Victor McLaglen …
other title: Aufstand in Sidi Hakim
British army sergeants Ballantine, Cutter and MacChesney serve in India during the 1880s, along with their native water-bearer, Gunga Din. While completing a dangerous telegraph-repair mission, they unearth evidence of the suppressed Thuggee cult. When Gunga Din tells the sergeants about a secret temple made of gold, the fortune-hunting Cutter is captured by the Thuggees, and it's up to his friends to rescue him.
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Island in the Sun (1957) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Island in the Sun
director: Robert Rossen actor: James Mason / Joan Fontaine …
other title: L'isola nel sole / Heiße Erde …
A scandalous tale of politics, social inequality, interracial romance, and murder set on a fictitious British-owned Caribbean island.
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Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (1948) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands
director: Norman Foster actor: Joan Fontaine / Burt Lancaster …
other title: Per te ho ucciso / Kærlighedens magt …
Bill Saunders, a former prisoner of war living in England, whose experiences have left him unstable and violent, gets into a bar fight in which he kills a man and then flees. He hides out with the assistance of a nurse, Jane Wharton, who believes his story that the killing was an accident.
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The Witches (1966) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Witches
director: Cyril Frankel actor: Joan Fontaine / Kay Walsh …
other title: Creatura del diavolo / Der Teufel tanzt um Mitternacht …
Following a nervous breakdown, Gwen takes up the job of head teacher in the small village of Haddaby. There she can benefit from the tranquillity and peace, enabling her to recover fully. But under the facade of idyllic country life she slowly unearths the frightening reality of village life in which the inhabitants are followers of a menacing satanic cult with the power to inflict indiscriminate evil and death if crossed.
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Songs for After a War (1976) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Canciones para después de una guerra
director: Basilio Martín Patino actor: Francisco Franco / Philippe Pétain …
other title: Canciones para después de una guerra
A particular reading of the hard years of famine, repression and censorship after the massacre of the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), through popular culture: songs, newspapers and magazines, movies and newsreels.
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Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
director: Fritz Lang actor: Dana Andrews / Joan Fontaine …
other title: L'alibi era perfetto / Den hårdeste straf …
A newspaper publisher, wanting to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial evidence, talks his possible son-in-law Tom into a hoax in an attempt to expose ineptitude of the city's hard-line district attorney. The plan is to have Tom plant clues leading to his arrest for killing a female nightclub dancer. Once Tom is found guilty, he is to reveal the setup and humiliate the DA.