Overview
Born : October 22, 1917 in Tokyo, Japan
Died : December 15, 2013 in Carmel, California, USA (natural causes)
Birth Name : Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland
Height : 5' 3½" (1.61 m)
Conceived Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland on October 22, 1917, in Tokyo, Japan, in what was known as the International Settlement. Her dad was a British patent lawyer with a worthwhile practice in Japan, yet because of Joan and more established sister Olivia de Havilland's repetitive sicknesses the family moved to California with expectations of working on their wellbeing. Mrs. de Havilland and the two young ladies got comfortable Saratoga while their dad returned to his training in Japan. Joan's folks didn't manage everything well and separated soon a while later. Mrs. de Havilland wanted to be an entertainer however her fantasies were shortened when she wedded, yet presently she would have liked to give her fantasy to Olivia and Joan. While Olivia sought after a phase vocation, Joan returned to Tokyo, where she went to the American School. In 1934 she returned to California, where her sister was at that point becoming famous on the stage. Joan similarly joined an auditorium bunch in San Jose and afterward Los Angeles to take a shot there. Subsequent to moving to L.A., Joan took on the name of Joan Burfield in light of the fact that she would have rather not encroach upon Olivia, who was utilizing the family last name. She tried at MGM and acquired a little job in No More Ladies (1935), however she was hardly seen and Joan was inactive for eighteen months. During this time she lives with Olivia, who was having considerably more accomplishment in films. In 1937, this time calling herself Joan Fontaine, she handled a superior job as Trudy Olson in You Can't Beat Love (1937) and afterward an uncredited part in Quality Street (1937). Albeit the following two years saw her in better jobs, she actually longed for something better. In 1940 she accumulated her first Academy Award selection for Rebecca (1940). Despite the fact that she figured she ought to have won, (she missed out to Ginger Rogers in Kitty Foyle (1940)), she was currently a set up individual from the Hollywood set. She would again be Oscar-assigned for her job as Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth in Suspicion (1941), and this time she won. Joan was making one film a year yet picking her jobs well. In 1942 she featured in the generally welcomed This Above All (1942). The next year she showed up in The Constant Nymph (1943). Yet again she was designated for the Oscar, she missed out to Jennifer Jones in The Song of Bernadette (1943). At this point any reasonable person would have agreed she was more popular than her more seasoned sister and all the more fine movies followed. In 1948, she acknowledged second charging to Bing Crosby in The Emperor Waltz (1948). Joan required the extended time of 1949 off prior to returning 1950 with September Affair (1950) and Born to Be Bad (1950). In 1951 she featured in Paramount's Rendezvous (1951), which ended up being terrible for both her and the studio and more powerless creations followed. Missing from the big screen for some time, she took parts in TV and supper theaters. She likewise featured in some very much created Broadway plays like Forty Carats and The Lion in Winter. Her keep going appearance on the big screen was The Witches (1966) and her last debut before the cameras was Good King Wenceslas (1994). She is, in actuality, an enduring film symbol.
More youthful sister of Olivia de Havilland.
Girl of Lilian Fontaine.
Kidded that the melodic satire A Damsel in Distress (1937) put her profession in a difficult spot four years. At the debut, a lady sitting behind her uproariously shouted, "Isn't she terrible!" during Fontaine's onscreen endeavor at moving.
Gone to Oak Street School in Saratoga, CA.
Brought forth her lone youngster at age 31, little girl Deborah Leslie Dozier (otherwise known as Debbie Dozier) on November 5, 1948. Youngster's dad is her subsequent ex, William Dozier.
She was an authorized pilot, champion balloonist, master rider, prize-winning fish angler, an opening in-one golf player, Cordon Bleu culinary specialist and authorized inside decorator.
At three years old she scored 160 on a newborn child IQ test.
Took her stage name from her progression father, George Fontaine.
The main entertainer or entertainer to win an acting Oscar in a movie coordinated by Alfred Hitchcock. She won Best Actress for Hitchcock's 1941 film Suspicion (1941).
Became pregnant two times in 1964, at 46 years old, yet prematurely delivered the twice.
First spouse Brian Aherne had a companion call her the night prior to their wedding to tell her he had cold feet and couldn't wed her. Joan advised the companion to let him know it was past time to cancel it, that he would be wise to be at the special raised area the following morning to wed her, and he could separate from her a short time later assuming he needed. He was there at the special stepped area and they stayed wedded six years, never referencing this occurrence to one another.
Little girl Martita, conceived 3 November 1946, took on 1952. Fled in 1963. At the point when Joan observed her she was rejected contact with the youngster on the reason that her Peruvian reception was not legitimate in the US. Martita and Joan in later years composed and chatted on the telephone to one another frequently. Martita additionally visited Joan at her home in Carmel, CA.
She and Olivia de Havilland are the main sisters to win Oscars and the initial ones to be Oscar-designated around the same time.
Head of jury at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1982
At the point when sister Olivia de Havilland was nine years of age she made a will where she expressed, "I grant all my magnificence to my more youthful sister Joan, since she has none".
Ex-sister-in-law of Pierre Galante and Marcus Goodrich.
Her collection of memoirs, "No Bed of Roses" was distributed in 1979. Ex William Dozier idea a more proper title ought to have been "No Shred of Truth".
Relations among she and sister Olivia de Havilland were never solid, yet deteriorated in 1941 when both were assigned for the Best Actress Oscar. Their shared abhorrence and envy swelled into a full scale quarrel after Fontaine won for Suspicion (1941). Notwithstanding the way that de Havilland proceeded to win two Academy Awards of her own, they have remained forever alienated.
In Italy practically every last bit of her movies were named by Lydia Simoneschi. She was sporadically named by Rosetta Calavetta and Renata Marini. She was named once by Micaela Giustiniani in The Women (1939), once by Dina Perbellini and once by Paola Barbara in Suspicion (1941).
VP Emeritus of the Episcopal Actors' Guild of America.
She and sister Olivia de Havilland worked vigorously as attendants' helpers during WWII and showed up at the Hollywood Canteen on the side of American soldiers.
She turned into an American resident on April 23, 1943.
Alfred Hitchcock and George Cukor were her beloved chiefs.
As per a top to bottom article on her by Rod Labbe in "Exemplary Images" magazine, Joan was offered the job of Karen Holmes, the two-faced armed force spouse, in Columbia Pictures' From Here to Eternity (1953), in view of James Jones' novel, after the studio had bought the film freedoms. Joan was consequently compelled to decrease the job in light of the fact that, at that point, she was entangled in an especially appalling authority fight over little girl Debbie Dozier with ex William Dozier. Passing on California to film widely in Hawaii would have imperiled Joan's case. The part went to subsequent option Deborah Kerr, who acquired an Oscar designation. Joan later supplanted Kerr on Broadway in the first creation of "Tea and Sympathy".
Her undisputed top choice film of hers was The Constant Nymph (1943).
Supposedly was dealt with awfully by Laurence Olivier during their time together on the arrangement of Rebecca (1940) as he had lobbied for his then-sweetheart Vivien Leigh to be given the piece of Mrs. De Winter.
Lost her virginity to Conrad Nagel when she was 20.
Is one of three Japan-conceived entertainers to have won an Academy Award. The others are her sister Olivia de Havilland and Miyoshi Umeki.
In an intriguing demonstration of compromise, she and sister Olivia de Havilland observed Christmas 1962 along with their then-spouses and kids.
She was the last enduring cast individual from George Cukor's The Women (1939) until she died in December 2013.
She used to relate with her fans consistently until her 90th birthday celebration. The main time fans got mail from her by and by was at Christmastime.
Was adversely affected by shellfish.
From 2003 until her passing of normal causes at 96 years old, she lived in Carmel, CA, on her domain known as Villa Fontana.
Her fatherly granddad, Rev. Charles Richard de Havilland, was from a family initially from Guernsey, in the Channel Islands. Her other heritage included Anglo-Irish and English.
She kicked the bucket in her rest of normal causes at 96 years old in her home in Carmel, California.
Was an enlisted Democrat.
Made due by her girl Debbie Dozier and two grandsons.
Was considered for the lead spot in Mildred Pierce (1945).
Was the eighteenth entertainer to get an Academy Award; she won the Best Actress Oscar for Suspicion (1941) at The fourteenth Academy Awards on February 26, 1942.
At the hour of her demise there had been no compromise among she and sister Olivia de Havilland.
In 1979, the year after Joan's plain life account was distributed, she and sister Olivia de Havilland went to the Academy's 50th-commemoration festivity of the Oscars and Oscar champs, yet were situated on furthest edges of the stage for the "class photograph", obviously at their solicitation, and didn't talk with one another whenever.
In 1946 an enormous break in the all around tense connection among she and sister Olivia de Havilland happened when Joan offered a harsh comment about Olivia's new spouse, creator Marcus Goodrich. Olivia demanded a statement of regret or she would not converse with her any longer. Joan would not do as such. A year some other time when Olivia won her first Oscar, Joan, who was at the entertainment pageant as a moderator, went up to compliment her sister yet was totally reprimanded.
She asserted that she was the best option for the job of Melanie Wilkes in Gone with the Wind (1939), yet that chief George Cukor felt she was too smart to even consider assuming the part. She then, at that point, recommended sister Olivia de Havilland to him and Olivia proceeded to fill the role. Olivia's rendition of how she got the part makes no notice of this or Joan.
At the point when she settled on a film vocation, her mom told her that Warner Bros.- - which had sister Olivia de Havilland under agreement - was "Olivia's studio" and that Joan was not to seek after work there. She understood that she was unable to utilize the de Havilland name and on second thought took her stepfather's last name, Fontaine. Joan in the long run got a specialist and endorsed with RKO.
The long-standing quarrel among she and sister Olivia de Havilland was only here and there talked about by Olivia. Joan, then again, was very genuine and felt the total survivor of Olivia's maltreatment and faulted her sister for the long alienation. Her side of the story is that the fight began essentially from Joan's introduction to the world - and that the base of their concern was Olivia's intense misery at imparting the consideration of her folks to a more youthful kin. The battling proceeded into their hair-pulling, garments tearing teenager years too.
The Rose Society named a rose after her, The Joan Fontaine Rose.
After a deliberate retirement, Joan returned and played Good Queen Ludmella in the TV film Good King Wenceslas (1994) in light of the fact that the foundation of her home in Carmel, CA, was harmed by a tremor and Joan concluded it was smarter to utilize the cash she got for the film to fix the house instead of removing $200,000 from her ledger.
Every last bit of her memorabilia was to be given to Boston University following her demise.
A dear companion of Ida Lupino, Joan acquired her collie canine after Lupino kicked the bucket.
Comparative in principle to Bette Davis when she won her Oscar for Dangerous (1935) in the wake of losing for Of Human Bondage (1934), many felt Joan's Best Actress Oscar win for Suspicion (1941) was in compassion toward missing out for her brightness in the exemplary film Rebecca (1940).
She and Katharine Hepburn showed up in creations of 'The Lion in Winter', Hepburn in the 1968 film variant, Fontaine in a 1979 Viennese stage creation. The two ladies showed up in 1994 and both died at 96 years old. Fontaine really played a little part in Hepburn's Quality Street (1937).
Experienced sickliness and measles as a kid.
In her collection of memoirs, "No Bed of Roses", she composed that when seeing a soothsayer in 1935 she was unsure with regards to which last name to decide for acting. The lady told her to "go with Fontaine", that it was "a champ.".
In her life account, "No Bed of Roses", she composed that she never felt so alone as in 1939 when she praised her 22nd birthday on the arrangement of Rebecca (1940) without anyone else.
Bottle-took care of her girl Debbie Dozier as a child.
Featured in three Oscar Best Picture chosen people: Rebecca (1940), Suspicion (1941) and Ivanhoe (1952). Rebecca is the main victor.
Was five months pregnant with her girl Debbie Dozier when she finished recording You Gotta Stay Happy (1948).
Gotten back to work seven months in the wake of bringing forth her little girl Debbie Dozier to start shooting Born to Be Bad (1950).
She has showed up in four movies that have been chosen for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "socially, all things considered or tastefully" critical: Gunga Din (1939), The Women (1939), Rebecca (1940) and Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948).
Having made various movies without establishing any genuine connection she was about to start surrendering when she was sitting close to David Selznick at a party and referenced that she'd quite recently wrapped up perusing the book Rebecca to which he said that he'd quite recently purchased the privileges and might she want to do a film test which prompted her getting the part and a fruitful movie profession,.
She and her sister, Olivia, were raised stringently by their mom, who they lived with and who they needed to request consent to go out in the evening and report back when they returned. Any youngsters that needed to date them were first welcome to tea and checked by their mom.
Cecil B. DeMille thought about her for the jobs of Loxi Claiborne in Reap the Wild Wind (1942) and Delilah in Samson and Delilah (1949). The jobs went to Paulette Goddard and Hedy Lamarr, separately.
Auntie of Benjamin Goodrich and Giselle Galante.
List of Joan Fontaine Movies
- Good King Wenceslas (TV Movie) 1986
- Dark Mansions (TV Movie) 1986
- Hotel (TV Series) 1986
- The Love Boat (TV Series) 1980
- The Users (TV Movie) 1975
- Cannon (TV Series 1966
- The Witches 1965
- The Bing Crosby Show (TV Series) 1963
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (TV Series) 1963
- Wagon Train (TV Series) 1962
- The Dick Powell Show (TV Series) 1962
- Tender Is the Night 1961
- Checkmate (TV Series) 1961
- The Light That Failed (TV Movie) 1960
- One Step Beyond (TV Series) 1960
- Startime (TV Series) 1959
- Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (TV Series) 1958
- A Certain Smile 1957
- Mr. Adams and Eve (TV Series) 1957
- Until They Sail 1957
- Island in the Sun 1956
- The Joseph Cotten Show: On Trial (TV Series) 1956
- The 20th Century-Fox Hour (TV Series) 1956
- Beyond a Reasonable Doubt 1956
- Star Stage (TV Series) 1956
- Serenade 1956 & Many more....
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