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Joan Fontaine
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Actor Born: October 22, 1917 in Tokyo, Japan Biography:Born Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland, "Joan Fontaine" began her acting career in her late teens with various West Coast stage companies under the name Joan Burfield. She also used that name when she made her 1935 feature film debut in "No More Ladies", in which she had a minor role. The daughter of '40s actress Lilian Fontaine, she returned to the screen as "Joan Fontaine" after two more years of stage work, although appearing primarily in B-movies. Two exceptions were "A Damsel in Distress" (1937) opposite "Fred Astaire" and "Gunga Din" (1939) with "Douglas Fairbanks, Jr." Her career took off in the early '40s due largely to leads in two Alfred Hitchcock films. "Fontaine" received Best Actress Oscar nominations for her work in the director's "Rebecca" (1940) and "The Constant Nymph" (1943), and won an Oscar for her performance in Hitchcock's "Suspicion" (1941). She starred in many subsequent films, at... Full Biography
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