Remembering Patricia Neil and Gary Cooper in... The Fountainhead 1949 🎥 Enright Building Party Scene The Fountainhead is a 1949 American, black-and-white drama film from Warner Bros., produced by Henry Blanke, directed by King Vidor, that stars Gary Cooper, Patricia Neal, Raymond Massey, Robert Douglas, and Kent Smith. The film is based on the bestselling 1943 novel of the same name by Ayn Rand, who also wrote the screenplay adaptation. Although Rand's screenplay was used with minimal alteratio