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Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland (October 22, 1917 – December 15, 2013), known professionally as Joan Fontaine, was an English-American actress who is best known for her starring roles in Hollywood films during the Golden Age of Hollywood.Fontaine appeared in more than 45 films in a career that spanned five decades. She was the younger sister of actress Olivia de Havilland.
Joan Fontaine. Actress: Suspicion. Born Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland on October 22, 1917, in Tokyo, Japan, in what was known as the International Settlement, to British parents, Lilian Augusta (Ruse), a former actress, and Walter Augustus de Havilland, an English professor and patent attorney. Her paternal grandfather's family was from Guernsey in the Channel Islands.
Jul 27, 2020 · The rivalry between the actresses encompassed their childhood, careers, love lives and even the Academy Awards. Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine were born 15 months apart and both found ...
Joan Fontaine. Actress: Suspicion. Born Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland on October 22, 1917, in Tokyo, Japan, in what was known as the International Settlement, to British parents, Lilian Augusta (Ruse), a former actress, and Walter Augustus de Havilland, an English professor and patent attorney. Her paternal grandfather's family was from Guernsey in the Channel Islands. Her father had a ...
Joan Fontaine (born October 22, 1917, Tokyo, Japan—died December 15, 2013, Carmel, California, U.S.) was an English American actress who was known for her portrayals of troubled beauties.. De Havilland was born in Tokyo, where her English father worked as a patent attorney and language professor; her mother was an actress. In 1919 she and her elder sister, Olivia, moved with their mother to ...
Dec 16, 2013 · Joan Fontaine, the patrician blond actress who rose to stardom as a haunted second wife in the Alfred Hitchcock film “Rebecca” in 1940 and won an Academy Award for her portrayal of a terrified ...
Dec 16, 2013 · Obituary: Joan Fontaine. Appearing at the Oscars in 1978. Joan Fontaine was the star of several Hollywood classics such as Rebecca and Jane Eyre and the only actor ever to win an Oscar for an ...
Dec 16, 2013 · Joan Fontaine, Oscar-Winning Star of Hitchcock Classics, Dies at 96. Cool beauty Joan Fontaine, who gave strong performances in a number of classic films including Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rebecca ...
Dec 16, 2013 · Academy Award-winning actress Joan Fontaine, who found stardom playing naive wives in Alfred Hitchcock's "Suspicion" and "Rebecca" and also was featured in films by Billy Wilder, Fritz Lang and ...
Dec 17, 2013 · Fontaine was a teenager when she began her acting career as Joan Burfield in the 1935 film “No More Ladies.” She later adopted the stage name Fontaine – the name of her mother’s second ...
