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...Unknown Woman," teeters perilously close to the brink of complete bathos for the better part of two hours, but it never quite falls in. Set in the Vienna of 1900, it concerns the lifelong passion of a pretty girl for a rather stupid young composer, played woodenly by Louis Jourdan. Miss Fontaine gazes lovingly at Jourdan while she is a child, and when she has grown up, runs away from home for a romantic one-night spree with him. He subsequently takes a trip, and after he has left, she finds that she is pregnant. Not wishing to hurt...
...years pass, she marries a rich nobleman, and then bumps into Jourdan at the opera. Although the interim is supposed to be nine years, neither Miss Fontaine nor Jourdan have changed at all, so the audience is just as surprised as the heroine that he doesn't remember her. She tries to remind him but he remains buffaloed. Soon thereafter the son dies and, as she feels herself dying too, she pens him a long, long letter...
Lisa (Joan Fontaine), a girl in her middle teens, falls hopelessly in love with a smooth concert pianist (Louis Jourdan) who takes rooms across the hall. Busy with more full-blown girls, he scarcely realizes that she exists. When her family moves, Lisa cannot endure the separation; she runs away, and haunts certain Viennese coffee houses and street corners until the pianist picks her up. During their short affair her lover experiences a faint glimmer of tenderness which might end his philandering, but it doesn't register strongly enough for him to bother looking her up when he returns...
...radio. The role of the heroine would have been an ideal light workout for an actress of great sensitivity: Garbo, for instance. Miss Fontaine is intelligent and industrious, but she is never a magician. Since nearly 90% of the picture depends on her, the whole show suffers accordingly. Louis Jourdan is more convincing in his easier role. Letter is a good try, but a disappointing film...
...Paradine Case. Alfred Hitchcock's polished but plotty courtroom drama, with Gregory Peck, Valli, Ann Todd, Louis Jourdan (TIME...