She appeared in television movies, including “The Users” (1978) and “Crossings” (1986), based on a Danielle Steel novel. She was 96. Any man with self-respect can't take it, and I wouldn't want to marry the other kind.
Several Southern cities banned the movie after threats from the Ku Klux Klan. "Fontaine appeared in more than 30 movies, including early roles in The Women and Gunga Din, the title part in Jane Eyre and in Max Ophuls' historical drama Letter from an Unknown Woman. I've flown in an international balloon race. Possibly it's unethical to criticize performances anatomically. In 1939, she appeared in two critically acclaimed pictures. She married four times. A series of appearances on the soap opera “Ryan’s Hope” in 1980 led to a Daytime Emmy nomination. In 1919, her mother, the former Lillian Ruse, moved with her two daughters to Saratoga, Calif., near San Francisco. Her final screen role was as a supportive royal grandmother in “Good King Wenceslas” (1994) on the Family Channel.
", Fontaine appeared in more than 30 movies, including early roles in "The Women" and "Gunga Din," the title part in "Jane Eyre" and in Max Ophuls' historical drama "Letter from an Unknown Woman." After their divorce in 1951, she was married to Collier Young, a film and television writer-producer, from 1952 to 1961, and Alfred Wright Jr., a Sports Illustrated editor, from 1964 to 1969. "There was always something wrong with me," Fontaine recalled. Watch TODAY All Day! She continued acting well into her 70s. Fontaine had been fading in recent days and died "peacefully," Beutel said. "Goodness knows, I tried," she said after her second marriage failed. Actress Joan Fontaine in 1944.
Ms. Fontaine was only 24 when she took home her Oscar in 1942, the youngest best-actress winner at the time, but her victory was equally notable because her older sister, Olivia de Havilland, was also a nominee that year. She starred on Broadway in 1954 in Tea and Sympathy and in 1980 received an Emmy nomination for her cameo on the daytime soap Ryan's Hope. "
She remembered being treated cruelly by Olivier, who openly preferred his then-lover Vivien Leigh for the role, and being ignored by the largely British cast.
"Not that I had anything against Elvis Presley. Her sister was among the others nominated that year (for her role in Hold Back the Dawn). Ms. Fontaine, center, in “Rebecca,” with George Sanders and Judith Anderson, Ms. Fontaine in the film "Frenchman's Creek. Fontaine's last husband was Sports Illustrated golf editor Alfred Wright Jr. Dozier and Fontaine had a daughter, Deborah Leslie, whose godmother was actress Maureen O'Sullivan. "Fontaine's pale, soft features and frightened stare made her ideal for melodrama and she was a major star for much of the 1940s. ". “Looking back on Hollywood, looking at it even today,” Ms. Fontaine wrote in “No Bed of Roses” (Morrow, 1978), her autobiography, “I realize that one outstanding quality it possesses is not the lavishness, the perpetual sunshine, the golden opportunities, but fear.” Just as “careers often begin by chance there,” she observed, “they can evaporate just as quickly.”, Joan Fontaine, Who Won an Oscar for Hitchcock’s ‘Suspicion,’ Dies at 96, Joan Fontaine in her Oscar-winning role opposite Cary Grant in Alfred Hitchcock’s “Suspicion.”. "Somehow I was the kind of a girl to whom husbands — and other men, too — gave copper frying pans.
", "You know, I've had a helluva life," Fontaine once said. Fontaine, the sister of fellow Oscar winner Olivia de Havilland, died in her sleep in her Carmel, Calif., home Sunday morning, said longtime friend Noel Beutel. "But Miss Fontaine does it not simply with her eyes, her mouth, her hands and her words, but with her spine. In 1937 and 1938, she made 10 mostly forgettable pictures, alternating between screwball comedies like “Maid’s Night Out,” in which she starred as a socialite mistaken for a servant, and dramas like “The Man Who Found Himself,” in which she played a noble nurse determined to save a hobo’s life. News of Fontaine's death came the same day we heard that actor Peter O'Toole (Lawrence of Arabia) passed away on Saturday. With Laurence Olivier as Maxim, Fontaine as the unsuspecting second wife and Judith Anderson as the dastardly housekeeper Mrs. Danvers, "Rebecca" won the Academy Award for best picture and got Fontaine the first of her three Oscar nominations. The sisters were estranged for most of their adult lives, a situation Ms. Fontaine once attributed to her having married and won an Oscar before Ms. de Havilland did. Hitchcock's "Suspicion," released in 1941, and featuring Fontaine as the timid woman whose husband (Cary Grant) may or may not be a killer, brought her a best actress Oscar and dramatized one of Hollywood's legendary feuds, between Fontaine and de Havilland, a losing nominee for "Hold Back the Dawn. Ms. Fontaine married and divorced four times. De Havillland, now 97, survives her sister. Joan Fontaine had a longime rivalry with fellow Oscar-winning actress, her sister, Olivia De Havilland.
In 1978, she played a socialite in the made-for-TV movie based on Joyce Haber's steamy novel, "The Users." ", As the Los Angeles Times adds, Fontaine "became almost as well-known for her lifelong feud with her famous older sister." I never could quite figure it out. Dan Grossi/AP
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