Joan Fontaine (born October 22, 1917) is an Academy Award-winning British actress in American films. She became an American citizen in April 1943. She was born Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland in Tokyo, Japan. She is the younger sister of actress Olivia de Havilland, from whom she has been estranged since 1975; both attended Los Gatos High School and the Notre Dame Convent Roman Catholic girls school in Belmont, California. Her film debut was a small role in No More Ladies (1935). David O. Selznick asked her to audition for the part of Rebecca, the unnamed heroine. She endured a grueling six-month series of film tests, along with hundreds of other actresses, before securing the part. Rebecca marked the American debut of British director Alfred Hitchcock. In 1940, the film was released to glowing reviews and Joan was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress.
1935 - No More Ladies - 80 min - Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery, Franchot Tone
1937 - A Damsel In Distress - 98 min - Fred Astaire, Joan Fontaine, George Burns
1937 - You Can’t Beat Love - 62 min - Preston Foster, Joan Fontaine, Alan Bruce
1937 - Man Who Found Himself, The - 67 min - John Beal, Joan Fontaine
1937 - Music For Madame - 81 min - Nino Martini, Joan Fontaine, Billy Gilbert
1938 - Maid’s Night Out - 64 min - Joan Fontaine, Allan Lane, Cecil Kellaway
1938 - Blond Cheat - 62 min - Joan Fontaine, Derrick De Marney, Cecil Kellaway
1938 - Sky Giant - 80 min - Richard Dix, Chester Morris, Joan Fontaine, Harry Carey
1939 - Gunga Din - 117 min - Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Victor McLaglen, Sam Jaffe
1939 - Women, The - 133 min - Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell
1940 - Rebecca - 130 min - Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders
1941 - Suspicion - 99 min - Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Cedric Hardwicke
1942 - This Above All - 110 min - Tyrone Power, Joan Fontaine, Thomas Mitchell
1943 - Constant Nymph, The, 112 min, Charles Boyer, Joan Fontaine, Peter Lorre
1944 - Frenchman’s Creek - 112 min - Joan Fontaine, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce
1944 - Jane Eyre - 97 min - Orson Welles, Joan Fontaine, Margaret O'Brien
1945 - Affairs Of Susan, The - 105 min - Joan Fontaine, George Brent, Walter Abel
1947 - Ivy - 98 min - Joan Fontaine, Patric Knowles, Herbert Marshall, Richard Ney
1948 - Emperor Waltz, The - 106 min - Bing Crosby, Joan Fontaine, Roland Culver
1948 - Letter From An Unknown Woman - 84 min - Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan
1950 - Born To Be Bad - 94 min - Joan Fontaine, Robert Ryan, Joan Leslie
1952 - Ivanhoe - 106 min - Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine
1952 - Something To Live For - 89 min - Joan Fontaine, Ray Milland, Teresa Wright
1953 - Bigamist, The - 80 min - Joan Fontaine, Ida Lupino, Edmund Gwenn
1954 - Casanova’s Big Night - 86 min - Bob Hope, Joan Fontaine, Basil Rathbone
1956 - Beyond A Reasonable Doubt - 80 min - Dana Andrews, Joan Fontaine
1956 - Serenade - 121 min - Mario Lanza, Joan Fontaine, Sara Montiel, Vincent Price
1956 - Stranger In The Night - Joan Fontaine, Michael Wilding - Fox - Hour Of Stars
1957 - Until They Sail - 94 min - Jean Simmons, Joan Fontaine, Paul Newman
1957 - Island In The Sun - 119 min - James Mason, Joan Fontaine, Joan Collins
1961 - Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea - 105 min - Walter Pidgeon, Joan Fontaine
1962 - Tender Is The Night - 142 min - Jennifer Jones, Jason Robards, Tom Ewell