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Beauty and acting talent seems to run in the family Joan Fontaine is the younger sister of actress Olivia de Havilland, also an Academy Award winner and the girls British mother was an actress as well. The two sisters are both among the last few surviving female stars from Hollywood's Golden Age but regretfully Joan has been estranged from her sister Olivia for many decades, not speaking at all since 1975.

Stage Name: Joan Fontaine (AKA: Joan Burfield)
Birth Name: Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland
Occupation: Stage, Movie Actress /Pinup Model
Years Active: 1935–1994
Notable Works: Fontaine is the only actress to have won an Academy Award for a performance in a film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Suspicion, with Cary Grant (1941). Among her other memorable films are Rebecca, Oscar Nomimation (1941), The Constant Nymph , Oscar Nomination(1943), the wartime love story This Above All (1942) Jane Eyre (1944), the elaborate costumer Frenchman's Creek (1944), Ivy (1947) and Letter From An Unknown Woman (1948). Among her other talents, Miss Fontaine has been a licensed pilot, writer, a champion ballonist, an expert horse rider, a prize-winning tuna fisherman, and a hole-in-one golfer, an excellent chef and a licensed interior decorator.
Date/Place Birth:October 22, 1917 (1917-10-22); Tokyo, Japan
Date/Death/Cause: Still living April 2010 in Carmel, California Please note: Since Ms. Fontaine has no studio affiliation these days she now has to charge $5.00 (you might want to send more) to cover the rising costs of sending her own 10X8 photos CONTACT:
Joan Fontaine
P.O. Box 222600
Carmel, CA 93923, USA
Spouse(s) & Children: Joan Fontaine was married and divorced four times: Summary: British-American stage and film actor Brian Aherne (1939–1945 divorced); producer, actor William Dozier (1946–1951 divorced) 1 child, daughter born Novembre 11, 1948, Deborah Leslie Dozier; Collier Young (1952–1961 divorced); a magazine editor Alfred Wright, Jr. (1964–1969 divorced)
Short Biography: Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland (Joan Fontaine) was born in Tokyo, Japan October 22, 1917. The young de Havilland girls (Joan and Sister) had chronic health problems sending them to the U.S. in 1919 and her family was in turmoil which eventually led to her parents separation and divorce and she moved back and forth between the United States and Japan before returning to the U.S. at 17 years old to begin her stage acting career in her late teens with various west coast stage companies under the name Joan Burfield; her stage debut was in the West Coast production of Call It A Day in 1935. She also used the name Joan Burfield when she made her feature film debut in No More Ladies, 1935 in which she had a minor role. In 1937, she appeared on the screen as Joan Fontaine mostly in B movies. Two exceptions were A Damsel in Distress, 1937 opposite Fred Astaire and Gunga Din, 1939 opposite Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Joan Fontaines Hollywood movie career really took off during the 1940s and she made many good movies and became an American Citizen in 1943. Joan also starred in many well produced Broadway plays such as Forty Carats and The Lion in Winter and did some sporadic TV work as well. Her last appearance on the big screen was The Devil's Own in 1966. Her last public TV appearance was Good King Wenceslas which was a made for TV film. If you would like more Joan Fontaine biographical information there are a couple of good books or the Wikipedia has one of numerous good Joan Fontaine short online biographies.

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Young Joan Fontaine beautiful legendary talented star of the vintage stage and screen actress.	Joan Fontaine gives an Oscar Winning Performance with Cary Grant, in Suspicion, directed by Alfred Hitchcock (1941)
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Joan Fontaine with Arturo de Córdova, Frenchman's Creek 1944.	Beautiful legendary talented star of the vintage stage and screen actress Joan Fontaine giving an Oscar nominated performance with actress Judith Anderson in Rebecca 1941.
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