RIP Joan Fontaine
The death of Peter O’Toole is in the news. The film world yesterday also lost another movie icon — Joan Fontaine born in Japan to British parents and who immigrated to the United States as a child.
In 1941, Fontaine received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for her role in Rebecca, directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The following year, she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for Hitchcock’s Suspicion (1941) making Fontaine the only actor to ever win an Academy Award in a film directed by Hitchcock.
Fontaine and her elder sister Olivia de Havilland are the only siblings to have won lead acting Academy Awards.
Fontaine lived in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California and died of natural causes at the age of 96.
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