Most Recent Role: Herself on Omnibus (UK)
Alias Name(s): Joan Burfield
Gender: Female
Birthplace: Toyko, Japan
Birthday: 10-22-1917
Birth Name: Joan deBeauvoir de Havilland
Alias Name(s): Joan Burfield
Gender: Female
Birthplace: Toyko, Japan
Birthday: 10-22-1917
Birth Name: Joan deBeauvoir de Havilland
Joan Fontain (born October 22, 1917) is an Academy Award winning motion picture and television actress best known for her work in the film noir period of the early 40's. She has starres in such movies as; Rebecca , Suspicion , and The Constant Nymph .
She is the older sister of Gone wit the Wind actress Olivia de Havilland although they have a long history of bitterness between them, and...
Most Recent Appearance
Hitchcock: Sex, Murder and Mayhem
Friday 3 October 1986 on BBC-1
Second part of the look at the career of film-maker Alfred Hitchcock.
In 1930, the night before she was due to wed her first husband, Brian Aherne, one of his friend's called her 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 for six years and never mentioned the incident to each other.
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Joan is the only actor to win a Oscar for starring in an Alfred Hitchcock directed film, which was in 1941 for Suspicion.
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A the premiere of Joan's movie A Damsel in Distress, a woman sitting behind her shouted "Isn't she awful!" at Joan's on-screen attempt at dancing.
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Joan was married to William Dozier from 1946 until they divorced in 1951.
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Joan was married to Alfred Wright, Jr. from 1964 to 1969.
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Joan: Marriage, as an institution, is as dead as the dodo bird.
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Joan: 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!.
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Other Appearances
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Ryan's Hope
Paige Williams (1980) |
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General Electric Theater
Countess Irene Forelli |
Password
Joan Fontaine |
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Bare Essence
Episode 4 Laura |
Bare Essence
Episode 5 Laura |
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Cannon
The Star (1) Thelma Cain |
Cannon
The Star (2) Thelma Cain |
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Checkmate
Voyage Into Fear Karen Lawson |
Dick Powell Show
The Clocks Valerie Baumer |
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