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Joan Fontaine
Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland, known professionally as Joan Fontaine, was a British-American actress best known for her 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. Their rivalry was well documented in the media at the height of Fontaine's career…
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entertainment · British-American actress (1917–2013) · actor · writer · television actor · interior designer · also Joan Fontaine, Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland, Fontaine
Born 22 October 1917 · Died 15 December 2013 · Q95076
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2026· 2 entries
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2013· 2 entries
Died 2013-12-15.
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Fontaine died in her sleep of natural causes at the age of 96 in her Carmel Highlands home
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1982· 1 entry
Traveled to Berlin, Germany, and served as a jury president for the Berlin International Film Festival
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1978· 2 entries
“I married first, won the Oscar before Olivia did, and if I die first, she”
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Fontaine addressed the issue, stating, "Until my adopted daughter goes back to see her parents, she's not welcome
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1975· 1 entry
To appear in an episode of Cannon especially written for her
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1967· 1 entry
Appeared in Dial M for Murder in Chicago
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1964· 1 entry
In Elkton, Maryland; they divorced in 1969
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1954· 1 entry
As Laura in Tea and Sympathy, playing the role originated by Deborah Kerr
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1952· 1 entry
De Havilland went to her apartment in New York often, and at least once they spent Christmas together there, in 1961
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1951· 1 entry
Fontaine met a four-year-old Peruvian girl named Martita, and informally adopted her
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1942· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Award for Best Actress for Suspicion (1942).
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1917· 2 entries
Born 1917-10-22.
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In Tokyo City, in the then Empire of Japan, to English parents
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1914· 1 entry
And separated in 1919 when she was two; the divorce was not finalized, however, until February 1925
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