We celebrate the 91st birthday today of the classic Hollywood star Joan Fontaine.
Together with her beautiful sister Olivia de Havilland, Joan was one of those actresses whose elegant charm entranced audiences in the golden age of cinema. An early favourite of Hitchcock (she won an Oscar for her role in Suspicion), she began her career slowly but soon eclipsed Olivia's career. In fact the two have not spoken since 1941!
Married four times, her former husband waspishly commented that her autobiography No Bed of Roses should have been better titled "No Shred of Truth".
It is for her superb role as the second Mrs DeWinter in Rebecca that Joan Fontaine is indelibly etched on the collective memory, however, and despite starring in hundreds more films she never quite shook off the role. Happy birthday to a living legend!
Joan Fontaine on IMDB
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