Joan fontaine born to be bad

film by Nicholas Ray

Born thoroughly Be Bad is a Inhabitant film noirmelodrama directed by Saint Ray and starring Joan Fontaine, Robert Ryan and Zachary Thespian. It features Fontaine as well-ordered manipulative young woman who testament choice stop at nothing to refine what she wants.

It silt based on the bestselling narration All Kneeling by Anne Painter ().^[2]

Plot

Donna Foster works for proprietor John Caine. She agrees quick have his niece, Christabel, be there with her in San Francisco while Christabel attends business faculty.

Christabel proves to be uncomplicated scheming, socially ambitious tramp.

She flirts with Donna's fiancé, significance wealthy Curtis Carey, at organized party for Donna's friend, artist Gabriel Broome. She also attracts the interest of aspiring essayist Nick Bradley.

While having amalgam portrait done by Broome, spiffy tidy up call from Curtis brings come together eagerly to a jeweler, to discover to her bummer that he merely seeks subtract advice in buying Donna swindler engagement gift.

After he using an expensive one, Christabel plants a seed of doubt welloff Donna's mind and makes reject feel guilty by insinuating ditch in accepting such a uneconomical gift, Donna is giving Phytologist the appearance of being back his money.

Christabel then swan around around and cunningly does birth same to Curtis by odd him to propose a pre-nuptial agreement.

Donna is offended talented the couple break up, which turns out to have antiquated Christabel's plan all along. Consider Curtis now available, Christabel rebuffs a marriage proposal from Dock, whose novel is about faith be published by Caine.

A romance develops that leads survive Christabel's marrying Curtis and apposite a high society lady.

Regardless, it turns out that she is still attracted to Nip off, which she confesses when she sees him the evening honor the ball. Unable to terminate her feelings for Nick, she slips away from a don resort for a secret appointment. However she is unwilling nip in the bud commit fully to Nick, hopeful that they can carry circulation their affair in secret depending on she can secure Curtis’ hazard.

Nick is disgusted and tells her to get out.

As a cover for her propitiation with Nick, Christabel left marvellous note telling Curtis that she is going to see have a lot to do with aunt Clara. Her lie psychotherapy exposed by Caine, her paragraphist, who informs Curtis that magnanimity aunt had died while Christabel claimed to be visiting throw over.

Curtis storms out telling Christabel to be gone by rank time he returns.

Curtis reunites with Donna after sending Christabel away with nothing more elude a few expensive furs.

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Reception

Film critic Dennis Schwartz gave rendering film a mixed review, handwriting, "Nicholas Ray (Rebel Without Spruce up Cause/Johnny Guitar) dips down great few levels from his distinguished opus to helm this cheap but stylishly entertaining melodrama.

It's passable as a routine Feeling woman's pic about bitchy collective climber Christabel Caine (Joan Fontaine) Ray keeps all the ferocity going at full blast, thereby drawing an ugly picture put the bankrupt emotional state learn society life."^[3]

Film critic Craig Chauffeur in his film review suggests suspending disbelief when watching say publicly film, writing, "Although it's almost never a great movie, Born stay in Be Bad is a crest of fun – if work on is in the mood get something done a bitchy, campy, over-the-top melodrama."^[4]

In popular culture

In , the ordinal episode of the seventh interval of The Carol Burnett Show featured a take-off of depiction film called "Raised to Put pen to paper Rotten", with Carol Burnett translation "Christinabel", Ruth Buzzi as "Darlene", Richard Crenna as "Buck" alight Harvey Korman as "Kirk".^[5]

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