Joan Fontaine - Biography - IMDb Joan Fontaine Biography Showing all 81 items Jump to: Overview (4) | Mini Bio (1) | Spouse (4) | Trade Mark (1) | Trivia (53) | Personal Quotes (18) Overview (4) Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland Height 5' 3½" (1.61 m) Mini Bio (1) Born Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland on October 22, 1917, in Tokyo, Japan, in what was known as the International Settlement. Her father was a British patent attorney with a lucrative practice in Japan, but due to Joan and older sister Olivia de Havilland 's recurring ailments the family moved to California in the hopes of improving their health. Mrs. de Havilland and the two girls settled in Saratoga while their father went back to his practice in Japan. Joan's parents did not get along well and divorced soon afterward. Mrs. de Havilland had a desire to be an actress but her dreams were curtailed when she married, but now she hoped to pass on her dream to Olivia and Joan.

While Olivia pursued a stage career, Joan went back to Tokyo, where she attended the American School. In 1934 she came back to California, where her sister was already making a name for herself on the stage. Joan likewise joined a theater group in San Jose and then Los Angeles to try her luck there. After moving to L.A., Joan adopted the name of Joan Burfield because she didn't want to infringe upon Olivia, who was using the family surname. She tested at MGM and gained a small role in No More Ladies (1935), but she was scarcely noticed and Joan was idle for a year and a half. During this time she roomed with Olivia, who was having much more success in films. In 1937, this time calling herself Joan Fontaine, she landed a better role as Trudy Olson in You Can't Beat Love (1937) and then an uncredited part in Quality Street (1937). Although the next two years saw her in better roles, she still yearned for something better. In 1940 she garnered her first Academy Award nomination for Rebecca (1940).

Although she thought she should have won, (she lost out to Ginger Rogers in Kitty Foyle (1940)), she was now an established member of the Hollywood set. She would again be Oscar-nominated for her role as Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth in Suspicion (1941), and this time she won. Joan was making one film a year but choosing her roles well. In 1942 she starred in the well-received This Above All (1942). The following year she appeared in The Constant Nymph (1943). Once again she was nominated for the Oscar, she lost out to Jennifer Jones in The Song of Bernadette (1943). By now it was safe to say she was more famous than her older sister and more fine films followed. In 1948, she accepted second billing to Bing Crosby in The Emperor Waltz (1948). Joan took the year of 1949 off before coming back in 1950 with September Affair (1950) and Born to Be Bad (1950). In 1951 she starred in Paramount's Darling, How Could You!

(1951), which turned out badly for both her and the studio and more weak productions followed. Absent from the big screen for a while, she took parts in television and dinner theaters. She also starred in many well-produced Broadway plays such as Forty Carats and The Lion in Winter. Her last appearance on the big screen was The Witches (1966) and her final appearance before the cameras was Good King Wenceslas (1994). She is, without a doubt, a lasting movie icon. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Denny Jackson Spouse (4) Often played delicate women put through emotional turmoil Trivia (53) Younger sister of actress Olivia de Havilland Daughter of film and stage actress Lilian Fontaine . Joked that the musical comedy A Damsel in Distress (1937) set her career back four years. At the premiere, a woman sitting behind her loudly exclaimed, "Isn't she awful!" during Fontaine's onscreen attempt at dancing. Attended Oak Street School in Saratoga, California.

Gave birth to her only child at age 31, a daughter Deborah Leslie Dozier (aka Debbie Dozier ) on November 5, 1948. Child's father is her 2nd ex-husband, William Dozier . She was a licensed pilot, champion balloonist, expert rider, prize-winning tuna fisherman, a hole-in-one golfer, Cordon Bleu chef and licensed interior decorator. At the age of three she scored 160 on an infant IQ test. Took her stage name from her step-father, George Fontaine. The only actor or actress to win an acting Oscar in a film directed by Alfred Hitchcock . She won Best Actress for Hitchcock's 1941 film Suspicion (1941). Became pregnant twice in 1964, at the age of 46, but miscarried both times. First husband Brian Aherne had a friend call her the night before their wedding to tell her he had cold feet and couldn't marry her.

Joan told the friend to tell him it was too late to call it off, that he had better be at the altar the next morning to marry her, and he could divorce her afterwards if he wanted. He was there at the altar and they remained married six years, never mentioning this incident to each other. Daughter, Martita, born 3 November 1946, adopted 1952. Ran away in 1963. When Joan found her she was refused contact with the child on the premise that her Peruvian adoption was not valid in the United States. Martita and Joan in later years, wrote and talked on phone to each other quite often. Martita also visited Joan at her home in Carmel. She and Olivia de Havilland are the first sisters to win Oscars and the first ones to be Oscar-nominated in the same year. Head of jury at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1982 When her sister, Olivia de Havilland , was 9 years old, she made a will in which she stated "I bequeath all my beauty to my younger sister Joan, since she has none". Ex-sister-in-law of Pierre Galante and Marcus Goodrich .

Her autobiography, "No Bed of Roses" was published in 1979. Ex-husband William Dozier thought a more appropriate title should have been "No Shred of Truth". Relations between Fontaine and her sister Olivia de Havilland were never strong but worsened in 1941, when both were nominated for best actress Oscar. Their mutual dislike and jealousy escalated into an all-out feud after Fontaine won for Suspicion (1941). Despite the fact de Havilland went on to win two Academy Awards of her own, they have remained permanently estranged. In Italy, almost all of her films were dubbed by Lidia Simoneschi . She was occasionally dubbed by Rosetta Calavetta and Renata Marini . She was dubbed once by Micaela Giustiniani in The Women (1939), once by Dina Perbellini and once by Paola Barbara in Suspicion (1941). Vice-President Emeritus of the Episcopal Actors' Guild of America. She and her sister Olivia De Havilland worked tirelessly as nurses' aides during WWII and made numerous appearances at the Hollywood Canteen in support of American troops.

She became an American citizen on April 23, 1943. Alfred Hitchcock and George Cukor were her favorite directors. According to an in-depth article on her by Rod Labbe in "Classic Images" magazine, Joan was offered the role of Karen Holmes, the adulterous army wife, in Columbia Pictures' From Here to Eternity (1953), based on James Jones ' novel, after the studio had purchased the film rights. Joan was subsequently forced to decline the role because, at the time, she was embroiled in a particularly ugly custody battle over daughter Debbie Dozier with ex-husband William Dozier . Leaving California to film extensively in Hawaii would have jeopardized Joan's case. The part went to second choice Deborah Kerr , who earned an Oscar nomination. Joan later replaced Kerr on Broadway in the original production of "Tea and Sympathy". Her personal favorite film of hers was The Constant Nymph (1943). Allegedly was treated horribly by Laurence Olivier during their time together on the set of Rebecca (1940) as he had campaigned for his then-girlfriend Vivien Leigh to be given the part of Mrs. De Winter.

Lost her virginity to Conrad Nagel when she was 20. Is one of three Japan-born actresses to have won an Academy Award. The others are her sister Olivia de Havilland and Miyoshi Umeki . In a rare act of reconciliation, Joan and her sister Olivia de Havilland celebrated Christmas 1962 together with their then-husbands and children. She was the last surviving cast member of George Cukor 's The Women (1939) until she passed away in December 2013. She used to correspond with her fans on a regular basis until her 90th birthday. The only time fans received mail from her personally was at Christmastime. Was allergic to shellfish. From 2003 until her death, she resided in Carmel, California, on her estate known as Villa Fontana. Her paternal grandfather, the Reverend Charles Richard de Havilland, was from a family originally from Guernsey, in the Channel Islands. Her other ancestry included Anglo-Irish and English. She died in her sleep of natural causes at the age of 96 in her home in Carmel, California. Survived by her daughter Debbie Dozier and two grandsons.

Was considered for the title role in Mildred Pierce (1945). Was the 18th actress to receive an Academy Award; she won the Best Actress Oscar for Suspicion (1941) at The 14th Academy Awards on February 26, 1942. At the time of her death there had been no reconciliation between she and sister Olivia de Havilland . In 1979, the year after Joan's frank autobiography was published, the sisters both attended the Academy's 50th anniversary celebration of the Oscars and Oscar winners, but were seated on opposite ends of the stage for the "class photo", apparently at their request, and did not speak with each other at any time. In 1946, a huge crack in the sisters' already tense relationship occurred when Joan made an unkind remark about Olivia's new husband, author Marcus Goodrich . Olivia insisted on an apology or she would not talk to her anymore. Joan refused to do so. A year later when Olivia won her first Oscar, Joan, who was at the awards show as a presenter, went up to congratulate her sister but was completely snubbed.

She claimed that she was the first choice for the role of Melanie Wilkes in Gone with the Wind (1939), but that director George Cukor felt she was too stylish to play the role. She then suggested sister Olivia de Havilland to him and Olivia went on to play the part. Olivia's version of how she got the part makes no mention of this or Joan. When she decided on a movie career, her mother told her that Warner Bros.--which had sister Olivia de Havilland under contract--was "Olivia's studio" and that Joan was not to pursue work there. She realized that she couldn't use the de Havilland name and instead took her stepfather's last name, Fontaine. Joan eventually got an agent and signed with RKO. The long-standing feud between she and sister Olivia de Havilland was seldom discussed by Olivia. Joan, on the other hand, was quite candid and felt the complete victim of Olivia's abuse and blamed her sister for the long estrangement. Her side of the story is that the feud started practically from Joan's birth--and that the root of their problem was Olivia's acute unhappiness at having to share the attention of her parents with a younger sibling.

The fighting continued into their hair-pulling, clothes-tearing teen years as well. The Rose Society named a rose after her, The Joan Fontaine Rose. After a self-imposed retirement, Joan returned and played Good Queen Ludmella in the TV movie Good King Wenceslas (1994) because the base of her house in Carmel, California, was damaged by an earthquake and Joan decided it was better use the money she got for the movie to fix the house rather than take $200,000 out of her bank account. All of Joan's memorabilia was to be donated to Boston University following her death. A close friend of Ida Lupino , Joan inherited her collie dog after Lupino died. Similar in theory to Bette Davis when she won her Oscar for Dangerous (1935) after losing for Of Human Bondage (1934), many felt Joan's Best Actress Oscar win for Suspicion (1941) was in sympathy for losing out for her brilliance in the classic film Rebecca (1940).

She and Katharine Hepburn both appeared in productions of "The Lion in Winter" (Hepburn in the 1968 film version [ The Lion in Winter (1968)]), Fontaine in a 1979 Austrian stage production), and both passed away at the age of 96. Fontaine had appeared onscreen with Hepburn in Quality Street (1937). Suffered from anemia and measles as a child. Personal Quotes (18) Joan Fontaine (Actress) - Pics, Videos, Dating, & News Joan Fontaine Female Born Oct 22, 1917 Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland, known professionally as Joan Fontaine, is a British American actress. Fontaine began her career on the stage in 1935 signed a contract with RKO Pictures that same year. In 1941, she earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for her role in the Rebecca, directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

The following year, she won the Best Actress Academy Award for Hitchock's Suspicion (1941).… Read More related links Jane Eyre (1943) (Retro Trailer) Flick Filosopher (Blog) Google News - Aug 28, 2011 'Nothing new, really, though: Look how this trailer promotes the 1943 Orson Welles-<mark>Joan Fontaine</mark> adaptation of Charlotte Bronte&#39;s novel by basically saying, âYou&#39;ve read the book, haven&#39;t you? You haven&#39;t? For shame! Everyone else has read the book!' Hollywood's Chased Romantic Hero Bay Area Reporter Google News - Aug 25, 2011 'Exquisite bride <mark>Joan Fontaine</mark> wonders if he&#39;s trying to kill her. The revised ending makes her seem paranoid, but until then, Grant is charming and scary.

Fontaine won the Best Actress Oscar, the only performer in a Hitchcock movie to get an Academy' Crazy, Creepy Love: Romance Is Dangerous In Rebecca, Jane Eyre Indie Wire (Blog) Google News - Aug 22, 2011 'Rebecca stars <mark>Joan Fontaine</mark> as the unnamed paid companion of an older woman, and Laurence Olivier as Max de Winter, the aristocratic widower who sweeps her away to married life at an estate called Manderley. Their arrival signals one of many tonal' Jane Eyre And Wuthering Heights: Do We Need New Film Versions? The Guardian Google News - Aug 20, 2011 'Then <mark>Joan Fontaine</mark>, cast as the meek governess, recites the book&#39;s first paragraphs, as if dictating a lesson in her schoolroom. But a film has to do more than merely illustrate a text. The medium&#39;s special power is the capacity to plunge us directly' Learn about the memorable moments in the evolution of Joan Fontaine. CHILDHOOD 1917 Birth Born on October 22, 1917.

1919 1 Year Old De Havilland's parents married in 1914 and separated in 1919, when Lilian decided to end the marriage after discovering that her husband used the sexual services of geishas; the divorce was not finalized, however, until February 1925. … Read More Taking a physician's advice, Lilian deHavilland moved Joanreportedly a sickly child who had developed anaemia following a combined attack of the measles and a streptococcal infectionand her elder sister, Olivia de Havilland, to the United States. The family settled in Saratoga, California, and Fontaine's health improved dramatically. She was educated at nearby Los Gatos High School, and was soon taking diction lessons alongside her elder sister. When she was 16 years old, deHavilland returned to Japan to live with her father. Read Less TEENAGE 1935 17 Years Old There she attended the Tokyo School for Foreign Children, graduating in 1935.

… Read More Fontaine made her stage debut in the West Coast production of Call It a Day (1935) and was soon signed to an RKO contract. Her film debut was a small role in No More Ladies (also 1935) in which she was credited as Joan Burfield.<br /><br /> Although Fontaine, on contract with RKO, had already made her screen appearance in No More Ladies, a series of other minor roles followed, in A Million to One and Quality Street (both 1937), opposite Katharine Hepburn. The studio considered her a rising star, and touted The Man Who Found Himself (also 1937) as her first starring role, placing a special screen introduction, billed as the "new RKO screen personality" after the end credit. She next appeared in a major role alongside Fred Astaire in his first RKO film without Ginger Rogers: A Damsel in Distress (1937), but audiences were disappointed and the film flopped.

Read Less TWENTIES Show Less She continued appearing in small parts in about a dozen films, including The Women (1939), but failed to make a strong impression, and her contract was not renewed when it expired in 1939. … Read More Fontaine's luck changed one night at a dinner party when she found herself seated next to producer David O. Selznick. Selznick and she began discussing the Daphne du Maurier novel Rebecca, and Selznick asked her to audition for the part of the unnamed heroine. She endured a grueling six-month series of film tests, along with hundreds of other actresses, before securing the part sometime before her 22nd birthday. Read Less Fontaine was married and divorced four times. Her first marriage was to actor Brian Aherne, in 1939 in Del Monte, California; they divorced in April 1945. 1940 22 Years Old Rebecca, starring Laurence Olivier alongside Fontaine, marked the American debut of British director Alfred Hitchcock. In 1940, the film was released to glowing reviews, and Fontaine was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress.

… Read More Fontaine did not win that year (Ginger Rogers took home the award for Kitty Foyle), but she did win the following year for Best Actress in Suspicion, which co-starred Cary Grant and was also directed by Hitchcock. This was the only Academy Award-winning acting performance to have been directed by Hitchcock.<br /><br /> During the 1940s, Fontaine excelled in romantic melodramas. Among her memorable films during this time were The Constant Nymph (1943) (for which she received her third Academy Award nomination), Jane Eyre (1943), Ivy (1947) and Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948).<br /><br /> Her film successes slowed a little during the 1950s, and she also began appearing in television and on the stage. She won good reviews for her role on Broadway in 1954 as Laura in Tea and Sympathy, opposite Anthony Perkins. She also appeared in numerous radio shows during the 1940s for the Lux Radio Theater.

Read Less 1942 24 Years Old … During the 1960s, Fontaine appeared in several stage productions, including Private Lives, Cactus Flower and an Austrian production of The Lion in Winter. Her last theatrical film was The Witches (1966), which she also co-produced. She continued appearing in film and television roles throughout the 1970s and 1980s, and was nominated for an Emmy Award for the soap opera Ryan's Hope in 1980. <br /><br />Fontaine's autobiography, No Bed of Roses, was published in 1978. <br /><br />Fontaine's last role for television was in the 1994 TV film Good King Wenceslas, after which she retired to her estate, Villa Fontana, in Carmel Highlands, California, where she spent time in her gardens and with her dogs. <br /><br />For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Fontaine has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1645 Vine Street. Read Less She left her hand and foot prints in front of the Grauman's Chinese Theatre on May 26, 1942.

1943 25 Years Old Fontaine held dual citizenship; she was British by birthright (both her parents were British) and became an American citizen in April 1943. 1946 28 Years Old In May 1946, she married actor/producer William Dozier in Mexico City. They had a daughter, Deborah Leslie, in 1948, and separated in 1949. Deborah is Fontaine's only biological child. The following year, Fontaine filed for divorce, charging Dozier with desertion. Their divorce was finalized in January 1951. THIRTIES 1952 34 Years Old Fontaine's third marriage was to producer and writer Collier Young on November 12, 1952. FORTIES 1960 42 Years Old They separated in May 1960, and Fontaine filed for divorce in November 1960. Their divorce was finalized in January 1961.

1964 46 Years Old Fontaine's fourth and final marriage was to Sports Illustrated golf editor Alfred Wright, Jr, on January 23, 1964, in Elkton, Maryland; they divorced in 1969. … Read More While in South America for a film festival in 1951, Fontaine met a four-year-old Peruvian girl named Martita, and informally adopted her. Fontaine met Martita while visiting Incan ruins where Martita's father worked as a caretaker. Martita's parents allowed Fontaine to become Martita's legal guardian to give the child a better life. Fontaine promised Martita's parents she would send the girl back to Peru to visit when she was 16 years old. When Martita turned 16, Fontaine bought her a round-trip ticket to Peru, but Martita refused to go and opted to run away. Fontaine and Martita became estranged following the incident. While promoting her autobiography in 1978, Fontaine addressed the issue, stating, "Until my adopted daughter goes back to see her parents, she's not welcome. I promised her parents.

I do not forgive somebody who makes me break my word." Read Less FIFTIES 1969 51 Years Old … De Havilland and Fontaine were both nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1942. Fontaine won for her role in Alfred Hitchcock's Suspicion over deHavilland's performance in Hold Back the Dawn. Higham states that Fontaine "felt guilty about winning given her lack of obsessive career drive ". Higham has described the events of the awards ceremony, stating that as Fontaine stepped forward to collect her award, she pointedly rejected deHavilland's attempts at congratulating her and that deHavilland was both offended and embarrassed by her behavior. Fontaine, however, tells a different story in her autobiography, explaining that she was paralyzed with surprise when she won the Academy Award, and that deHavilland insisted she get up to accept it. "Olivia took the situation very graciously," Fontaine wrote.

"I was appalled that I'd won over my sister." Several years later, however, deHavilland apparently remembered what she perceived as a slight and exacted her own revenge by brushing past Fontaine, who was waiting with her hand extended, because deHavilland allegedly took offense at a comment Fontaine had made about deHavilland's husband. <br /><br />Contrary to press reports, the sisters continued their relationship after the 1940s. After Fontaine's separation from her husband in 1952, deHavilland came to her apartment in New York often, and at least once they spent Christmas together there, in 1961. They were photographed laughing together at a party for Marlene Dietrich in 1967. Read Less Fontaine also went to visit deHavilland in Paris in 1969. The sisters reportedly did not completely stop speaking to each other until 1975, after their mother's funeral, to which Joan, who was out of the country, was not invited. LATE ADULTHOOD 1978 60 Years Old Both sisters largely refused to comment publicly about their relationship.

In a 1978 interview, however, Fontaine said of the sibling rivalry, "I married first, won the Oscar before Olivia did, and if I die first, she'll undoubtedly be livid because I beat her to it!" The following year, in a 1979 interview, Fontaine claimed the reason her sister and she stopped speaking to each other was that deHavilland wanted their mother (who was suffering from cancer) to be treated surgically at the advanced age of 88, which Fontaine apparently did not think was a good idea. … Read More Fontaine claims that after their mother died, deHavilland did not bother to try to find where Fontaine could be reached (Fontaine was on tour in a play). Instead, deHavilland sent a telegram, which did not arrive until two weeks later at Fontaine's next stop. According to Fontaine, deHavilland did not invite her to a memorial service for their mother. DeHavilland claims she informed Fontaine, but Fontaine brushed her off, claiming she was too busy to attend.

Higham records that Fontaine had an estranged relationship with her own daughters, as well, possibly because she discovered that they were secretly maintaining a relationship with deHavilland. Read Less Behind Joan Fontaine’s Epic Feud With Sister Olivia de Havilland Behind Joan Fontaine’s Epic Feud With Sister Olivia de Havilland Joal Ryan Joan Fontaine and Olivia De Havilland More According to Joan Fontaine, the actress was born to feud with sister Olivia de Havilland. Literally. "Olivia so hated the idea of having a sibling that she wouldn't go near my crib," Fontaine told People magazine in 1978. Fontaine, the Oscar-winning star of "Suspicion," and de Havilland, the two-time Best Actress honoree and star of "Gone With the Wind," were parties to one of Hollywood's all-time chilliest relationships. The siblings' legendary rivalry apparently was carried to the grave Sunday when Fontaine died in her sleep in her Carmel, California, home. Fontaine was 96. De Havilland, who survives her, is 97. By most accounts, the last time the two spoke was during the Ford Administration.

As Fontaine put it, "You can divorce your sister as well as your husbands." [Related: Legendary Actress Joan Fontaine Dies at 96 ] More often than not, de Havilland didn't say anything at all. "That is the one subject on which I never speak," she told London's Independent in 2009. "Never." Fontaine gave her version of things in the 1978 memoir "No Bed of Roses." (Though long said to have been at work on her own autobiography, de Havilland has yet to publish one.) In the interview with People, which was timed to promote her book, Fontaine talked about how, as children, de Havilland made her cry by reading aloud, and loudly, from the Bible, and how, as teens, de Havilland broke Fontaine's collarbone "in a rage." On paper, at least, the two were close. They were born just 15 months apart. They moved from Tokyo, where they were born to British parents, to California together. They made their big-screen debuts in the same year, 1935.

Gone With the Wind More De Havilland had the more immediate success, courtesy the Errol Flynn swashbuckler "Captain Blood." Four years later, de Havilland received her first Academy Award nomination, for Best Supporting Actress, for her turn as the saintly Melanie Hamilton in the 1939 blockbuster "Gone With the Wind." De Havilland was next nominated for the 1941 romance, "Hold Back the Dawn." This time she was in the Best Actress category, and this time her competition included Fontaine, who'd had a hit in Alfred Hitchcock's "Rebecca" and who was back in the Oscar running for "Suspicion," also directed by Hitchcock. Though much has been made of Oscar's role in the sisters' feud, neither de Havilland nor Fontaine stressed the awards as a turning point in their relationship. Or, that is, neither seemed to view the 1942 ceremony, at which Fontaine won, that way. As for the 1947 ceremony... The 19th Annual Academy Awards was where the sisters' longstanding tensions went as viral as things could go viral in the Teletype age.

De Havilland was up for Best Actress for the drama "To Each His Own." After she claimed the statuette, her first win after three career nominations, Fontaine attempted to congratulate her sister offstage. She was snubbed. "I started to shake hands with her, but she seemed very occupied and busy," Fontaine told the Associated Press days later. "Maybe she didn't see me." Oh, de Havilland saw her all right. "Our relations have been quite strained for some time — I couldn't change my attitude," de Havilland said in the same AP account. About the only thing the sisters agreed on was a hug, or lack thereof: both shot down a report that they'd embraced. De Havilland told her side of the feud in 1957. In an interview with the AP's Bob Thomas , she said that Fontaine had said "cutting" things about her husband, Marcus Goodrich, whom de Havilland had married in 1946, and that her sister shouldn't have been surprised to get the brush off at the Oscars. "She was aware there was an estrangement between us," de Havilland said.

De Havilland was not bitter when she gave the interview: She said relations with Fontaine had improved after the Goodrich union ended in 1953, and as the idea of waiting on an apology from her sister came to seem "silly." Read More Suspicion More In the 1960s, according to a 2010 Daily Mail accounting of the sisters' history, Fontaine bailed out de Havilland financially. But things took a decisive and definitive turn for the worse in 1975 when the sisters' mother died. "Olivia and the executor of the estate took full charge, disposing of Mother's effects as well as her body — she was cremated — without bothering to consult me," Fontaine told People. "I wasn't even invited to the memorial service. Of course, I went anyway." The two were never close again. They saw to it. The actresses reportedly had special requests at the 1978 and 1988 Oscars, two ceremonies which they both attended: Keep me away from her, and vice versa.

The feud produced a definitive soundbite — "I married first, won the Oscar before Olivia did and if I die first, she'll undoubtedly be livid because I beat her to it!," from Fontaine's 1978 People magazine interview — but not much in the way of public vitriol. Even the definitive soundbite feels less harsh when read in its entirety: "Olivia has always said I was first at everything," Fontaine began, before reeling off what she and her sister apparently had acknowledged were Fontaine's firsts. Hollywood Reporter correspondent Scott Feinberg , who'd interviewed both Fontaine and de Havilland this past year, tweeted Sunday that while the sisters "certainly weren’t close, they weren’t passionately feuding, either." In 2008, Vanity Fair asked Fontaine what she most disliked. The answer was one word — and it wasn't a name. It was simply "noise." Reblog Joan Fontaine - 必应 Sign in Joan Fontaine Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland (October 22, 1917 – December 15, 2013), known professionally as Joan Fontaine, was a British-American actress.

Fontaine began her career on the stage in 1935 and signed a contract with RKO Pictures that same year. In 1941, she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for her role in Rebecca, directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The following year, she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for Hitchcock's Suspicion (1941), making Fontaine the only actor ever to win an Academy Award in a film ... (展开) directed by Hitchcock. Fontaine and her elder sister Olivia de Havilland are the only set of siblings to have won lead acting Academy Awards. During the 1940s to the 1990s, Fontaine continued her career in roles on the stage and in radio, television and film. She released her autobiography, No Bed of Roses, in 1978. After a career spanning over fifty years, Fontaine made her last on-screen appearance in 1994. Born in Japan to British parents, the sisters moved to California in 1919. Fontaine lived in Carmel Highlands, California , where she owned a home, Villa Fontana.

It was there that she died of natural causes at the age of 96 in 2013. 1948年版的，又名《巫山云》，要能下载的，不要徐静蕾版的 答 Joan Fontaine Early life Joan de Havilland was born in Tokyo, Japan, to English parents. Her father, Walter Augustus de Havilland (August 31, 1872 – May 23, 1968), was educated at the University of Cambridge and served as an English professor at the Imperial University in Tokyo before becoming a patent attorney with a practice in Japan. Her mother, Lilian Augusta (née Ruse; June 11, 1886 – February 20, 1975), was educated at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, and became a stage actress who left her career after going to Tokyo with her husband. Her mother would return to work with the stage name "Lillian Fontaine" after her daughters achieved prominence in the 1940s.

Joan's paternal cousin was Sir Geoffrey de Havilland (1882–1965), an aircraft designer known for the De Havilland Mosquito, and founder of the aircraft company which bore his name. Her paternal grandfather, the Reverend Charles Richard de Havilland, was from a family from Guernsey, in the Channel Islands. De Havilland's parents married in 1914 and separated in 1919, when Lilian decided to end the marriage after discovering that her husband used the sexual services of geishas; the divorce was not finalized, however, until February 1925. Taking a physician's advice, Lilian de Havilland moved Joan—reportedly a sickly child who had developed anaemia following a combined attack of the measles and a streptococcal infection—and her elder sister, Olivia, to the United States. The family settled in Saratoga, California, and Fontaine's health improved dramatically. She was educated at Los Gatos High School, and was soon taking diction lessons alongside her elder sister. When she was 16 years old, de Havilland returned to Japan to live with her father.

There she attended the American School in Japan, graduating in 1935. Joan Fontaine Career Fontaine made her stage debut in the West Coast production of Call It a Day (1935) and was soon signed to an RKO contract. Her film debut was a small role in No More Ladies (also 1935) in which she was credited as Joan Burfield. Although Fontaine, on contract with RKO, had already made her screen appearance in No More Ladies, a series of other minor roles followed, in A Million to One and Quality Street (both 1937), opposite Katharine Hepburn. The studio considered her a rising star, and touted The Man Who Found Himself (also 1937) as her first starring role, placing a special screen introduction, billed as the "new RKO screen personality" after the end credit. She next appeared in a major role alongside Fred Astaire in his first RKO film without Ginger Rogers: A Damsel in Distress (1937) but audiences were disappointed and the film flopped.

She continued appearing in small parts in about a dozen films, including The Women (1939), but failed to make a strong impression and her contract was not renewed when it expired in 1939. Fontaine's luck changed one night at a dinner party when she found herself seated next to producer David O. Selznick. She and Selznick began discussing the Daphne du Maurier novel Rebecca, and Selznick asked her to audition for the part of the unnamed heroine. She endured a grueling six-month series of film tests, along with hundreds of other actresses, before securing the part sometime before her 22nd birthday. Rebecca, starring Laurence Olivier alongside Fontaine, marked the American debut of British director Alfred Hitchcock. In 1940, the film was released to glowing reviews, and Fontaine was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress. Fontaine did not win that year (Ginger Rogers took home the award for Kitty Foyle), but she did win the following year for Best Actress in Suspicion, which co-starred Cary Grant and was also directed by Hitchcock. This was to be the only Academy Award-winning acting performance to have been directed by Hitchcock.

During the 1940s, Fontaine excelled in romantic melodramas. Among her memorable films during this time were The Constant Nymph (1943) (for which she received her third Academy Award nomination), Jane Eyre (1943), Ivy (1947) and Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948). Her film successes slowed a little during the 1950s, and she also began appearing in television and on the stage. She won good reviews for her role on Broadway in 1954 as Laura in Tea and Sympathy, opposite Anthony Perkins. She also appeared in numerous radio shows during the 1940s for the Lux Radio Theater. Later career During the 1960s, Fontaine appeared in several stage productions, including Private Lives, Cactus Flower and an Austrian production of The Lion in Winter. Her last theatrical film was The Witches (1966), which she also co-produced. She continued appearing in film and television roles throughout the 1970s and 1980s, and was nominated for an Emmy Award for the soap opera Ryan's Hope in 1980.

Fontaine's autobiography, No Bed of Roses, was published in 1978. Fontaine's last role for television was in the 1994 TV film Good King Wenceslas, after which she retired to her estate, Villa Fontana, in Carmel Highlands, California where she would spend time in her gardens and with her dogs. For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Fontaine has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1645 Vine Street. She left her hand and foot prints in front of the Grauman's Chinese Theatre on May 26, 1942. Marriages and children Fontaine was married and divorced four times. Her first marriage was to actor Brian Aherne, in 1939 in Del Monte, California; they divorced in April 1945. In May 1946, she married actor/producer William Dozier in Mexico City. They had a daughter, Deborah Leslie, in 1948 and separated in 1949. The following year, Fontaine filed for divorce, charging Dozier with desertion. Their divorce was finalized in January 1951.

Fontaine's third marriage was to producer and writer Collier Young on November 12, 1952. They separated in May 1960, and Fontaine filed for divorce in November 1960. Their divorce was finalized in January 1961. Fontaine's fourth and final marriage was to Sports Illustrated golf editor Alfred Wright, Jr, on January 23, 1964 in Elkton, Maryland; they divorced in 1969. While in South America for a film festival in 1951, Fontaine met a 4-year-old Peruvian girl named Martita, and informally adopted her. Fontaine met Martita while visiting Incan ruins where Martita's father worked as a caretaker. Martita's parents allowed Fontaine to become Martita's legal guardian in order to give the child a better life. Fontaine promised Martita's parents she would send the girl back to Peru to visit when Martita was 16 years old. When Martita turned 16, Fontaine bought her a round-trip ticket to Peru, but Martita refused to go and opted to run away.

Fontaine and Martita became estranged following the incident. While promoting her autobiography in 1978, Fontaine addressed the issue stating, "Until my adopted daughter goes back to see her parents, she's not welcome. I promised her parents. I do not forgive somebody who makes me break my word." Sibling rivalry Fontaine and her sister, Olivia de Havilland, are the only set of siblings to have won lead acting Academy Awards. Olivia was the first to become an actress; when Fontaine tried to follow her lead, their mother, who allegedly favored Olivia, refused to let Joan use the family name. Subsequently, Fontaine had to invent a name, taking first Joan Burfield, and later Joan Fontaine. Biographer Charles Higham records that the sisters had an uneasy relationship from early childhood, when Olivia would rip up the clothes Joan had to wear as hand-me-downs, forcing Joan to sew them back together. A large part of the friction between the sisters allegedly stemmed from Fontaine's belief that Olivia was their mother's favorite child. De Havilland and Fontaine were both nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1942.

Fontaine won for her role in Alfred Hitchcock's Suspicion over de Havilland's performance in Hold Back the Dawn. Higham states that Fontaine "felt guilty about winning given her lack of obsessive career drive...". Higham has described the events of the awards ceremony, stating that as Fontaine stepped forward to collect her award, she pointedly rejected de Havilland's attempts at congratulating her and that de Havilland was both offended and embarrassed by her behavior. Fontaine, however, tells a different story in her autobiography, explaining that she was paralyzed with surprise when she won the Academy Award, and that de Havilland insisted she get up to accept it. "Olivia took the situation very graciously," Fontaine wrote. "I was appalled that I'd won over my sister." Several years later, however, de Havilland apparently remembered what she perceived as a slight and exacted her own revenge by brushing past Fontaine, who was waiting with her hand extended, because de Havilland allegedly took offense at a comment Fontaine had made about de Havilland's husband. Contrary to press reports, the sisters continued their relationship after the 1940s.

After Fontaine's separation from her husband in 1952, de Havilland came to her apartment in New York often, and at least once spent Christmas together there, in 1961. They were photographed laughing together at a party for Marlene Dietrich in 1967. Joan also went to visit Olivia in Paris in 1969. The sisters reportedly did not completely stop speaking to each other until 1975, after their mother's funeral, to which Joan, who was out of the country, was not invited. Both sisters largely refused to comment publicly about their relationship. In a 1978 interview, however, Fontaine said of the sibling rivalry, "I married first, won the Oscar before Olivia did, and if I die first, she'll undoubtedly be livid because I beat her to it!" The following year, in a 1979 interview, Fontaine claimed the reason she and her sister stopped speaking to each other was that de Havilland wanted their mother (who was suffering from cancer) to be treated surgically at the advanced age of 88, which Fontaine apparently did not think was a good idea.

Fontaine claims that after their mother died, de Havilland did not bother to try to find out where Fontaine could be reached (Fontaine was on tour in a play). Instead, de Havilland sent a telegram, which did not arrive until two weeks later at Fontaine's next stop. According to Fontaine, de Havilland did not invite her to a memorial service for their mother. De Havilland claims she informed Fontaine, but Fontaine brushed her off, claiming she was too busy to attend. Higham records that Fontaine had an estranged relationship with her own daughters as well, possibly because she discovered that they were secretly maintaining a relationship with de Havilland. ^ a b Booker 2011, p. 134. ^ a b Thomas 1983, p. 20. ^ "Olivia Mary de Havilland at ThePeerage.com. Retrieved February 15, 2013. ^ Olivia de Havilland profile at FilmReference.com. Retrieved February 15, 2013. ^ French, Philip. "Screen Legends No.73". The Observer, Review Section, 2009.

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"Better Radio Programs for the Week". The Decatur Daily Review. p.50. Retrieved July 14, 2015 – via Newspapers.com. Beeman, Marsha Lynn. Joan Fontaine: A Bio-Bibliography. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood, 1994. ISBN 978-0-31328-409-0. Booker, M. Keith. Historical Dictionary of American Cinema. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 2011. ISBN 0-8108-7192-0. Current Biography 1944. New York: H.W. Wilson Company, 1945. Fontaine, Joan. No Bed of Roses: An Autobiography. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1978. ISBN 978-0-68803-344-6. Higham, Charles. Sisters: The Story of Olivia De Havilland and Joan Fontaine. New York: Coward McCann, 1984.

ISBN 978-0-69811-268-1. Laufenberg, Norbert B. Entertainment Celebrities. London: Trafford Publishing, 2005. ISBN 1-4120-5335-8. Quinlan, David. Quinlan's Film Stars. London: B.T. Batsford Ltd, 1996. ISBN 0-7134-7751-2. Weatherford, Doris. American Women During World War II: An Encyclopedia. London: Taylor & Francis, 2010. ISBN 978-0-41599-475-0. Olivia De Havilland | Hollywood Walk of Fame Caucasian Olivia Mary de Havilland is a British American film and stage actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1946 and in 1949. She is the elder sister of actress Joan Fontaine. Along with her sister, de Havilland is one of the last surviving female stars from 1930s Hollywood. She is also the last living lead cast member from Gone with the Wind.

Olivia de Havilland was born in Tokyo, Japan to English parents. Her mother, Lilian Augusta Ruse, was an actress known professionally as Lillian Fontaine, and her father, Walter Augustus de Havilland, was a patent attorney with a practice in Japan. Her parents married in 1914 and divorced in 1919. She was raised Roman Catholic. Her younger sister is actress Joan Fontaine, from whom she has been estranged for many decades, not speaking at all since 1975. The de Havilland family moved from Tokyo when she was two years old, settling in Saratoga, California, due to her sister's poor health, which improved after the family emigrated. Both sisters attended Los Gatos High School and Olivia also attended the Notre Dame High School, Belmont. An acting award at Los Gatos is named after her. Her paternal cousin is Sir Geoffrey de Havilland, designer of the de Havilland Mosquito aeroplane. De Havilland appeared as Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream, her first stage production, at the Hollywood Bowl. The stage production was later turned into a 1935 movie, her film debut.

Although the stage cast was largely replaced with Warner Bros. contract players, she was hired to reprise her role as Hermia. After appearing with Joe E. Brown in Alibi Ike and James Cagney in The Irish in Us, she played opposite Errol Flynn in such highly popular films as Captain Blood, The Charge of the Light Brigade, and as Maid Marian to Flynn's Robin Hood in The Adventures of Robin Hood. Overall, she starred opposite Flynn in eight films. Legendary Actress Joan Fontaine Dies at 96 | Hollywood Reporter Legendary Actress Joan Fontaine Dies at 96 4:32 PM PST 12/15/2013 by Mike Barnes COMMENTS Courtesy Everett Collection The star of the Hitchcock classics "Suspicion" and "Rebecca" famously won an Oscar in 1942 over her bitter rival -- her older sister, Olivia de Havilland. Joan Fontaine, the polished actress who achieved stardom in the early 1940s with memorable performances in the Alfred Hitchcock films Suspicion -- for which she earned the best actress Oscar over her bitter rival, sister Olivia de Havilland -- and Rebecca, has died. She was 96.

The Hollywood Reporter awards analyst Scott Feinberg spoke with Fontaine's assistant, Susan Pfeiffer, who confirmed the actress' death of natural causes Sunday at her home in Carmel, Calif. Fontaine earned a third best actress Oscar nomination for her role in The Constant Nymph (1943). She also was notable as Charlotte Bronte's eponymous heroine in Jane Eyre (1944) opposite Orson Welles; in the romantic thriller September Affair (1950) with Joseph Cotten; in Ivanhoe (1952) with Robert Taylor; and in Island in the Sun (1957), where she plays a high-society woman in love with an up-and-coming politician (Harry Belafonte). It was Hitchcock, with his penchant for "cool blondes," who brought Fontaine to the forefront when he cast her as the second Mrs. de Winter in Rebecca (1940), the director's American debut. Her performance as the new wife of Laurence Olivier in a household haunted by the death of his first wife earned her an Academy Award nomination for best actress.

A year later, Hitchcock placed her opposite Cary Grant in Suspicion, and she won the Oscar for her turn as Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth, a shy English woman who begins to suspect her charming new husband of trying to kill her. She thus became the only actor to win an Oscar in a Hitchcock film. Among those Fontaine beat out at the 1942 Academy Awards was her older sister, de Havilland, up for Hold Back the Dawn (1941). Biographer Charles Higham wrote that as Fontaine came forward to accept her trophy, she rejected de Havilland's attempt to congratulate her and that de Havilland was offended. (There may have been another similar incident after de Havilland won her first Oscar for To Each His Own in 1947.) The sisters, who never really got along since childhood, finally stopped speaking to each other in the mid-'70s. De Havilland, a two-time Oscar winner, is 97 and living in Paris. PHOTOS: Hollywood's Notable Deaths of 2013 Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland was born in Tokyo on Oct.

22, 1917, to British parents. Her father was a patent attorney who had a thriving practice in Japan. Due to the ill health of both her and Olivia, their mother, Lilian, moved them to California and pushed them into acting. While de Havilland pursued acting, Fontaine returned to Tokyo and attended the American School. Ultimately, their parents divorced and Fontaine returned to the U.S. at age 17 to live in San Jose, Calif. As de Havilland was already having some success as an actress, Fontaine joined a local theater group and moved to L.A. She received a screen test at MGM and was given a bit part in No More Ladies (1935), credited as Joan Burfield. After changing her last name to Fontaine (from her stepfather, George Fontaine) to avoid confusion with her sister, she signed with RKO and garnered small parts in several movies, including The Women and Gunga Din, both released in 1939.

Capitalizing on her emotional turns in Rebecca and Suspicion, Fontaine appeared in several romantic films in the '40s, including Constant Nymph (where she falls for composer Charles Boyer), Frenchman's Creek (1944), The Affairs of Susan (1945), From This Day Forward (1945) and Ivy (1947). Fontaine moved into more mature roles in the movies and starred on Broadway opposite Anthony Perkins in Tea and Sympathy in 1954. Her last movie appearance was in The Witches (1966). Fontaine made regular TV appearances in the late '50s and early '60s and served as a panelist on the game show To Tell the Truth from 1962-65. In 1986, she co-starred in the TV movie Dark Mansions and the miniseries Crossings. Her last credited performance came in the 1994 telefilm Good King Wenceslas. Fontaine was nominated for an Emmy Award in 1980 for her guest-starring stint in the soap opera Ryan's Hope and served as jury president at the 1982 Berlin International Film Festival.

In 1978, she published her autobiography, No Bed of Roses, which detailed her feud with de Havilland. Off the screen, Fontaine was a licensed pilot, an accomplished interior decorator and a Cordon Bleu-level chef who was married and divorced four times. In the '40s, she and William Dozier, the second of her four husbands, formed Rampart Productions, which oversaw her 1948 film Letter From an Unknown Woman, Billy Wilder's The Emperor Waltz (1948) starring Bing Crosby and Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (1948) with Burt Lancaster. In 1939, Fontaine married British actor Brian Aherne, and they divorced in 1945. She was married to Batman TV show producer Dozier from 1946-51, to producer Collier Young from 1952-61 and to journalist Alfred Wright Jr. from 1964-69. Duane Byrge contributed to this report.

Twitter: @mikebarnes4 Olivia de Havilland Mourns Joan Fontaine | Hollywood Reporter Courtesy Everett Collection Joan Fontaine Havilland said she was "shocked and saddened" over the death of the "Suspicion" actress Sunday at her home in Carmel, Calif. NEW YORK – In rare public remarks about her sister and fellow Oscar-winning actress, Olivia de Havilland mourned the loss of Joan Fontaine, with whom de Havilland reportedly feuded for much of their lives. De Havilland on Monday issued a statement through the DGRW Talent Agency, saying she was "shocked and saddened" by the news and that she was grateful for "the many kind expressions of sympathies." Fontaine, 96, died in her sleep Sunday at her home in Carmel, Calif. The 97-year-old de Havilland is a longtime resident of Paris and over the years often declined to talk about her sister.

PHOTOS: Hollywood's Notable Deaths of 2013 De Havilland and Fontaine are among Hollywood's most famous siblings, stars from Hollywood's studio era known for their many screen achievements and for a rivalry that at times became public, especially after they were both nominated for best actress in 1941. Fontaine won for Suspicion, and later recalled the moment her name was announced at the Academy Awards ceremony. "All the animus we'd felt toward each other as children, the hair pullings, the savage wrestling matches, the time Olivia fractured my collarbone, all came rushing back in kaleidoscopic imagery," she wrote in No Bed of Roses, a memoir published in 1978. "My paralysis was total. I felt Olivia would spring across the table and grab me by the hair. I felt age 4, being confronted by my older sister. Damn it, I'd incurred her wrath again!" STORY: Legendary Actress Joan Fontaine Dies at 96 De Havilland went on to win two Oscars, but that apparently didn't warm her to Fontaine. After de Havilland won in 1947 for To Each His Own, Fontaine came forward to congratulate her and was rebuffed.

De Havilland's publicist said at the time: "This goes back for years and years, ever since they were children." Joan Fontaine - IMDb IMDb Actress | Soundtrack | Producer Born Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland on October 22, 1917, in Tokyo, Japan, in what was known as the International Settlement. Her father was a British patent attorney with a lucrative practice in Japan, but due to Joan and older sister Olivia de Havilland 's recurring ailments the family moved to California in the hopes of improving their health. Mrs... See full bio » Born:

Question: Which actress was the elder sister of Joan Fontaine?
Answer: OLIVIA de HAVILLAND