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3 unusual facts about The Fountainhead


Ely Jacques Kahn

As part of her research for her novel The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand spent a half year in 1937 as an unsalaried assistant to Kahn in his offices in his 2 Park Avenue building, where he mentored her on the profession of architecture.

Slight Return/The Fountainhead

"Slight Return" was reissued the following year as a single from Expecting to Fly.

"Slight Return"/"The Fountainhead" are songs by The Bluetones, released as their first single, a double A-side, in 1995.


Architect Africa Film Festival

Some of the films screened at previous festivals include: The Fountainhead, Metropolis, City of God, The Belly of an Architect, The 11th Hour, My Architect, The Garden, and Marina of the Zabbaleen.

Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam

Next to classic feature films as The Fountainhead and Blade Runner or documentaries about architects as Louis Kahn or Frank Gehry, films are screened about the influence of media on the city, the depiction of cities in film and outstanding set design such as in Silent Running.

Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life

Its focus is on novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand, the author of the bestselling novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, who promoted her philosophy of Objectivism through her books, articles, speeches, and media appearances.

David Weisbart

Between then and 1951 he was involved with the editing of twenty films, including Mildred Pierce, Night and Day, That Hagen Girl, The Fountainhead, The Glass Menagerie, and A Streetcar Named Desire.

William Alexander Levy

In 1937, writer Ayn Rand, then unknown, visited Hangover House and Alexander provided her with quotes for her forthcoming novel The Fountainhead (1943).


see also

Cardston Alberta Temple

Torleif S. Knaphus — sculpted the large bas relief titled Christ the Fountainhead on the exterior of the building and also the life-size oxen holding the baptism font