#joan fontaine
This day is heavy with the loss of Joan Fontaine as well.
“I hope I’ll die on stage at the age of 105, playing Peter Pan.”
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April 12th marked the anniversary of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1940 film Rebecca. Here is my painting of Joan Fontaine, part of my Hitchcock series
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See the sunbeams?
Every one beams just because of you
Love’s in session and my depression
Is unmistakably through
Things are looking up
It’s a great little world we live in
Oh, I’m happy as a pup
Since love looked up at me
FRED ASTAIRE andJOAN FONTAINE inA DAMSEL IN DISTRESS (1937)
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In Italy, Hitchcock’s Rebecca (1940) was released as La Prima Moglie (The First Wife). That’s a compelling title, especially when presented alongside images of Judith Anderson’s intimidating Mrs Danvers and Joan Fontaine’s naive young woman. If you weren’t familiar with the story when you saw a cinema lobby card like the one above, you could quite easily assume that the woman in black was the first wife herself. That draws Danny and her beloved mistress even closer together in the imagination. The unhinged housekeeper isn’t just ‘standing in’ for Rebecca anymore. She is Rebecca.
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These are her slippers. ‘Throw me my slips, Danny,’ she used to say. She had little feet for her height. Put your hands inside the slippers. They are quite small and narrow, aren’t they?
She forced the slippers over my hands, smiling all the while, watching my eyes. ‘You never would have thought she was so tall, would you?’ she said, ‘These slippers would fit a tiny foot. She was so slim too. You would forget her height, until she stood beside you. She was every bit as tall as me. But lying there in bed she looked quite a slip of a thing, with her mass of dark hair, standing out from her face like a halo.’
-Rebecca (1938) by Daphne du Maurier
I like the echoes in the text: from ‘slippers’ to 'slips’ and 'slip of a thing’. They reinforce the idea that obsessive Mrs Danvers has a one-track mind.
The movie still - rather wonderfully unnerving, with Judith Anderson’s housekeeper ‘watching [the second wife’s] eyes’ - suggests that this moment from the novel was filmed even though it doesn’t appear in the final version of Hitchcock’s Rebecca(1940).
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Jean Simmons, Joan Fontaine, Piper Laurie and Sandra Dee ride bikes. (And Sandra Dee tries not to lose her head.)
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