In the film Fontaine portrays Lina McLaidlaw, a wealthy woman who becomes completely infatuated with the con artist Jonnie Aysgarth portrayed by Cary Grant. Some of her best treasures appear in the 1941 Alfred Hitchcock thriller Suspicion. Like many stars of the era, Fontaine wore her own jewelry in her movies.

Long before “self-purchasing” became a term for women buying their own jewels, Fontaine was shopping for what she wanted and her acquisitions were not meager basics. “I could never could quite figure it out.” The lack of jewelry gifts from the men in her life did not stop the star from building her own amazing collection. “Somehow I was the kind of a girl to whom husbands-and other men, too-gave copper frying pans,” Joan Fontaine once hilariously explained. In several films, jewelry was a clue used to solve a murder.Ĭary Grant and Joan Fontaine wearing her Verdura brooch in ‘Suspicion.’ Photo Alamy Jewels were often props that expressed a character’s status or a visual way to represent an important scene. Those usually came from actresses’ personal collections. Hitchcock used jewel in any number of movies to turn the plot. He understood the powerful and varied symbolism jewelry can take on in a film like none other. The director loved jewelry and even went on at least one browsing excursion with Grace Kelly to Cartier in New York. In Hollywood Jewels, the book I co-authored with Penny Proddow, we devoted an entire chapter to Alfred Hitchcock and he is worthy of an at home jewelry film festival. While I steadily post jewelry movie reviews, the list-o-mania got me to thinking I needed to provide a movie list with a theme more specific than just jewelry on The Adventurine. Lists of movies to stream are cropping up everywhere with people worldwide looking for home entertainment. Chatelain insisted that the palace's incorrect messaging lead to suspicions that Stephanie was at the wheel, and that Grace didn't receive proper medical care.7 Hitchcock Films with Major Jewelry Moments The Master of Suspense cast jewelry in several different roles 'The communiques were administrative ones, not medical bulletins,' a doctor at the hospital told the Times. 'I was led to believe she was out of danger,' Grace's brother John Kelly told reporters in Philadelphia, per the Times. It wasn't just the public that was misinformed. 'I got out on the only accessible side, the driver's.' There were also false reports that Princess Grace would recover.ĭespite Grace's severe condition, spokesmen for the palace continued to communicate that Grace was stable, although suffering from a broken thigh, collarbone, and ribs. 'The passenger door was completely smashed in,' she said, per The Guardian. As Stephanie has since clarified, this wasn't because she was seated there.

He noted that he pulled Stephanie out of the driver's side. This was thanks to interviews given by the man who first found the scene of the crash. Michael Ochs Archives // Getty Images At first, there was (incorrect) speculation that it was Stephanie, not Grace, who was driving. It's thought that Grace either confused the brake with the accelerator, or didn't have the use of her legs. In other circumstances, of course, things could have evolved in a different manner.' 'It could have been relatively benign, but you can't say for sure. ' It was an incident which, if it occurred at home-well, she might have sat down and perhaps felt better soon,' he said. Jean Chatelain, chief surgeon at the hospital where she was treated, described the condition to the Times. Then the car started to swerve, before going full speed ahead over the cliff.ĭays later, doctors would confirm that they had found evidence of Grace having a 'cerebral vascular incident.' Dr. Stephanie revealed in an interview that Grace had been having a headache, and seemed to black out for a moment. It's thought that the crash was caused by Princess Grace having a hemorrhage. Grace suffered a second hemorrhage, likely caused by the accident, and never regained consciousness, according to Robinson. Stephanie was released from the hospital the next day with only minor injuries. NBC // Getty Images Grace and Stephanie were both rushed to the hospital. Prince Rainier and Princess Grace in 1977.

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