Wealthy, sheltered
Joan Fontaine is swept off her feet by charming ne'er-do-well
Cary Grant.
Though warned that Grant is little more than a fortune-hunter, Fontaine
marries him anyway. She remains loyal to her irresponsible husband as
he plows his way from one disreputable business scheme to another.
Gradually, Fontaine comes to the conclusion that Grant intends to do
away with her in order to collect her inheritance...a suspicion
confirmed when Grant's likeable business partner
Nigel Bruce
dies under mysterious circumstances. To his dying day, Hitchcock
insisted that he wanted to retain the novelist Francis Iles' original
ending, but that the RKO executives intervened. Fontaine won an Academy
Award for her work.
