Joy House (1964) on Netflix
TV-MA19641h 37mCrimeDramaRomance
Marc, a card sharp in Monte Carlo, flees gangsters ordered to kill him. A wealthy widow hires him as her chauffeur, and her niece Melinda takes an interest in him.
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- Netflix2.6/5
- IMDb7.0/103,639 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes33%
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Plot summary
Marc makes his living as a card sharp, working the gambling tables of Monte Carlo. He has an affair with the wife of a gangster boss, and American gunmen are ordered to kill him for it. Marc takes shelter in a mission for the poor. A rich widow named Barbara finds him there and takes him on as her driver, and she brings him to her chateau. Her niece Melinda is drawn to Marc from the start, and between the two women he is trapped in a deception.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Joy House (1964)
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- Jane Fonda later alleged that René Clément, 24 years her elder, tried to persuade her to sleep with him while she prepared a love scene for the film.
- Natalie Wood was announced in March 1963 for the role of Melinda in the film, but she withdrew and Jane Fonda took the part.
- Joy House was Jane Fonda's first film in France, and she described the shoot as "chaos, rain and script changes", saying she fought sixty battles and won them all.
- Jane Fonda, whose French was poor at the time and who never understood much of what was going on, was glad she made the film because it brought her to France, where she met her future husband Roger Vadim.
