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Joan Fontaine: Five performances to savor
Dec. 16, 2013
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Joan Fontaine dies at 96; star of ‘Suspicion’ and ‘Rebecca’
Dec. 15, 2013
The star of 1940s film won an Oscar for Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Suspicion’ and was also well-known for her rivalry with her sister, actress Olivia de Havilland.
Joan Fontaine may have been overshadowed at times by her older sister, Olivia de Havilland, but the actress -- who died Sunday at age 96 -- appeared in several classic films during the Golden Age of Hollywood and is the only performer to win an Oscar in a film directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
Joan Fontaine, the coolly beautiful 1940s actress who won an Oscar for her role in Alfred Hitchcock’s “Suspicion” and who became almost as well-known for her lifelong feud with her famous older sister, Olivia de Havilland, has died.
Joan Fontaine, actress who won Oscar for ‘Suspicion,’ dies at 96
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Read Philip K. Scheuer’s 1940 review of ‘Rebecca’
March 28, 1940
Alfred Hitchcock’s only movie to win the Academy Award for best picture, “Rebecca” (1940) may not be the first film that leaps to mind when we think of the Master of Suspense’s signature achievements.
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