... Award winning actress Joan Fontaine has passed. She was the star of one of my favorite Alfred Hitchcock films "Rebecca"---the only?! Hitchcock film to win best picture of the year! It's a fantastic film.
...Joan plays a naive plain young woman, who falls quickly in love and marries a handsome rich widower, Maxim DeWinter---and settles in his gigantic mansion called Manderley. There she finds the memory of the first wife Rebecca maintaining her hold over Maxim and the household servants. Like a ghost, Rebecca's pressance seems to haunt everything there. But why? And who was the mysterious Rebecca?
...the film is full of Hitchcock style and treats to keep you on edge, from beginning to end. Watch the whole film below to see for yourself. And to see Joan's award nominated performance. She would later win the Oscar for her second Hitchcock film "Suspicion."
...Famous screen and stage actress Julie Harris passed away at age 87. She beautifully played James Dean's love interest in "East of Eden" and gave a masterful performance in one of my favorite horror films "the Haunting"...
Patricia Neal, while not my favorite actress, had a strong quality to her roles. Best Actress winner for "Hud", and great in other roles in "Breakfast at Tiffany's", "the day the Earth stood still", "the Fountainhead", and "a face in the crowd." But it's her personal life of ups and downs that got my attention. I remember in the 80s she did commercials for Anacin pain relief medicine, and when she spoke she had a slight bit of talking from the side of her mouth. That's when my parents explained that she had suffered several strokes at age 39, her face/body partially paralyzed, and she had to learn to walk and talk all over again. That she made such a recovery, is to this day amazing. She also had several children with her husband famous children's author Roald Dahl (author of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", "James and the Giant Peach", "the Witches", "Matilda" and "the Fantastic Mr. Fox") one daughter dying at age 7 from measles, and another child hit as an infant in his baby carriage by a taxi, suffering brain damage. But she always picked herself up from each tragedy and carried on. She and Dahl divorced in 1990 after she caught him in an affair with her best friend. Sad. But she wasn't perfect either and in her younger Hollywood days, at age 21, she had an affair with married Gary Cooper. But I'll always remember her for her small part in "Breakfast at Tiffany's" as Paul's "decorator" keeping him as her boytoy until he meets Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly. He says to her "You're a stylish girl, can't we end this stylishly?" She answers "You're right. I am a very stylish girl." Someone even made her line into a song...
So, if you are a "children" then children BE GONE!!!
No one under 18 Allowed!
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D.C. based Artist, who enjoys creating hero photomorphs in my spare time. I don't regularly follow present comics but try to visit a comic book shop every now and then. My art is more reflective of the comic book heroes of the past.
