Joan Fontaine’s Typical Vibe
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Joan Fontaine has 11 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1930s through the 1960s. 2 rank in the Top 10%, led by Rebecca.
Recurring themes

Anastasia
1956
Drama · Romance

Sayonara
1957
Drama · Romance

The Snows of Kilimanjaro
1952
Adventure · Romance

Dragonwyck
1946
Drama · Romance

The Tiger of Eschnapur
1959
Adventure · Drama

Jezebel
1938
Drama · Romance

All That Heaven Allows
1955
Drama · Romance

The Paradine Case
1947
Drama · Mystery

Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died mysteriously several years earlier. The young wife must come to grips with the terrible secret of her handsome, cold husband, Max De Winter. She must also deal with the jealous, obsessed Mrs. Danvers, the housekeeper, who will not accept her as the mistress of the house.
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · With Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders

A pianist about to flee from a duel receives a letter from a woman he cannot remember. As she tells the story of her lifelong love for him, he is forced to reinterpret his own past.
Dir. Max Ophüls · With Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan, Mady Christians
A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.
Dir. George Cukor · With Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell

Manipulated by his jealous ensign Iago, the Moorish general Othello is driven to believe that his new wife Desdemona is unfaithful, setting in motion a chain of deception, jealousy, and violence that leads to tragedy.
Dir. Orson Welles · With Orson Welles, Micheál Mac Liammóir, Robert Coote

A sheltered heiress falls for a charming playboy and elopes with him, but soon discovers his gambling vice and mounting debts. As his lies deepen and those around them meet mysterious ends, she begins to suspect that her husband’s affection may conceal a deadly motive—and that she could be his next victim.
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · With Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Cedric Hardwicke

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.
Dir. Richard Thorpe · With Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine

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.
Dir. Fritz Lang · With Dana Andrews, Joan Fontaine, Sidney Blackmer

After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meets the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Edward Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?
Dir. Robert Stevenson · With Orson Welles, Joan Fontaine, Margaret O'Brien

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.
Dir. George Stevens · With Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

San Francisco businessman Harry Graham and his wife and business partner, Eve, are in the process of adopting a child. When private investigator Mr. Jordan uncovers the fact that Graham has another wife, Phyllis, and a small child in Los Angeles, he confesses everything.
Dir. Ida Lupino · With Joan Fontaine, Ida Lupino, Edmond O'Brien

as Dr. Susan Hiller
The crew of an atomic submarine battle to save the world from global destruction.
Dir. Irwin Allen · With Walter Pidgeon, Robert Sterling, Barbara Eden
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