#STEFAN READING FROM A PROMPTER FULL#

Finally intending to take responsibility for his actions, Stefan decides to engage in the duel. Outside, a carriage waits to take him to meet a dueling opponent, Lisa's husband, Johann.

Still in shock, Stefan leaves his building and sees the ghostly image of a teenage Lisa open the door for him, the same way she once did when he first noticed her all those years ago.

#STEFAN READING FROM A PROMPTER FULL#

The servant nods and writes down her full name, Lisa Berndle, on a piece of paper. 'Did you remember her?', he asks his servant. In shock, Stefan thinks back to the three times they met and he failed to recognize her. She writes a letter to Stefan explaining her life, her son, and her feelings toward him the letter that narrates the whole film.ДЄfter Lisa dies, the letter is sent to Stefan, along with a card from the hospital staff announcing her death. Sometime later, after her son dies of typhus, Lisa is taken to a hospital and is gravely ill herself. On her way out she meets the servant and the two exchange a long glance. Distraught and realizing that Stefan never felt any love for her at all, Lisa leaves. Despite a seemingly illuminating conversation about Stefan's past life and his motivations for giving up music, Stefan still does not recognize who Lisa really is. Lisa is still uncomfortable with this, not wanting to anger her husband, and when her carriage arrives, she is met by a clearly vexed Johann.ДЄ few nights later and against her husband's wishes, Lisa travels to Stefan's apartment, and he is delighted to see her. Stefan explains that he can't quite place her but felt they must have met before. He sees her leave and follows her, and so they meet while she is waiting for her carriage. Feeling uneasy, she leaves during the performance. One day while at the opera, Lisa sees Stefan, who is no longer a top-billed musician and rarely performs. Ten years later, Lisa is now married to an older man named Johann (Marcel Journet) who knows about her past love for Stefan, for whom she named their son. Lisa eventually gives birth to their child, never trying to contact Stefan, wanting to be the 'one woman you had known who asked you for nothing.' Soon after, Stefan leaves for a concert in Milan, promising to contact her soon, but he never does. They go on a long, romantic date that ends with their making love. One night he notices her, and although he does not recognize her, he finds himself strangely drawn to her. Every night she waits outside Stefan's window, hoping to be noticed. Years later, Lisa is estranged from her parents and works in Vienna as a dress model. When they learn about Lisa's actions, her mother and stepfather demand to know why she did not accept the proposal. Confused and heartbroken, he accepts her situation. He eventually proposes to Lisa, but she turns him down, saying that she is in love with someone else living in Vienna and is even engaged to be married to him. In Linz, she is transformed into a respectable woman and courted by a young military officer from a good family.

After seeing the two, a distraught Lisa travels to Linz where she joins her mother and new stepfather. Early the next morning, Stefan returns home with another woman. She decides to wait outside for him to return. She knocks on Stefan's door, but no one answers. Lisa resists her mother's plans and runs away from the railway station and goes back to the apartment, where she is let in by the porter. One day, Lisa's mother ( Mady Christians) announces her marriage to a wealthy and respectable gentleman, who lives in Linz, and tells Lisa that they will all move there.

Despite her actions, they only meet once and Stefan takes little notice of her. Lisa becomes obsessed with Stefan, staying up late to listen to him play, and sneaking into his apartment and admiring him from a distance. Stefan is making a name for himself through energetic performances.

In early twentieth century Vienna, Lisa ( Joan Fontaine), a teenager living in an apartment building, becomes fascinated by a new tenant, concert pianist Stefan Brand ( Louis Jourdan).

Stefan reading from a prompter