News about Joan Fontaine

YOUR fifty classic films have been rediscovered. After BRIAN VINER's Top 100 films list, our readers responded with a passionate tweet, so here are our favorites — as well as his verdict

www.dailymail.co.uk, April 6, 2024
BRIAN VINER: If I compiled my list again today, I still wouldn't have space for The Italian Job, Forrest Gump, The Great Escape, or Titanic, which all of which encouraged readers to write in. By the way, that doesn't mean I don't like or even love those photos (although not Titanic), which makes me wish the iceberg would strike a bit sooner). Here is a list of the Top 20 movies you should have included in my Top 100 list, as well as your reasons for... The Shawshank Redemption (left), Mary Poppins (right), and Saving Private Ryan (inset).

Joan Fontaine's Upper East Side apartment goes up for auction for $7.95 million

www.dailymail.co.uk, October 7, 2022
The glamorous Upper East Side co-op that once belonged to a well-known Oscar winning actress has gone on sale for almost $8 million. Fontaine's former home features four-bedrooms on the fifth floor of the highly coveted after-luxurious building in the heart of New York City. In addition, the unit includes four and a half bathrooms, a 30-foot living room, a library, and a wood-burning fireplace (bottom right), an extensive dining room, and a private elevator, making it fit for a celebrity. Fontaine, a 96-year-old woman who died in 2013, was one of Alfred Hitchcock's most popular films Rebecca and Suspicion, as well as Letter from an Unknown Woman and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. With listing broker Leslie R. Coleman of Brown Harris Stevens, the luxurious home fit for a celebrity can now be purchased for $7.95 million.