The Fountainhead

Idealistic architeture writer Dominique (Patricia Neal) exchanges glances with genius architect Roark (Gary Cooper) who's doing manual labor at her father's Connecticut quarry, not knowing who he is, then visits again, in King Vidor's The Fountainhead, 1949, from the Ayn Rand novel.

Several suits (Moroni Olsen as "the Chairman") are shocked when architect Roark (Gary Cooper) rejects their commission, with evil critic Toohey (Robert Douglas) observing, in King Vidor's The Fountainhead, 1949, from the Ayn Rand novel.

Obsequious critic Toohey (Robert Douglas) pitches a popular architect to bored newspaper titan Wynand (Raymond Massey) early in The Fountainhead, 1949, directed by King Vidor, from Ayn Rand's novel and script.

Fierce heiress and architecture writer Dominique (Patricia Neal) had intended to cause the hunky laborer (Gary Cooper) working at her father's quarry to fix her fireplace, not knowing the he's the fiercely independent architect Roark, King Vidor directing highly suggestive sequences, in The Fountainhead, 1949, from Ayn Rand's novel and screenplay.

Hero Howard Roark (Gary Cooper) is introduced through encounters with a dean (Paul Stanton), fellow student Keating (Kent Smith) and architect Cameron (Henry Hull) in the opening to King Vidor's The Fountainhead, 1949, from the Ayn Rand novel.

Ayn Rand adapted her own novel The Fountainhead (1949) for the screen starring Gary Cooper and Patricia Neal, directed by King Vidor.