Joan Fontaine, the coolly beautiful 1940s actress ... was also nominated as best actress for her role in Hitchcock’s “Rebecca” (1940) and, three years later, for Edmund Goulding’s ...

CARMEL, Calif. – Academy Award-winning actress Joan Fontaine, who found stardom playing naive wives in Alfred Hitchcock’s “Suspicion” and “Rebecca” and also was featured in films by ...

By Mike Barnes Senior Editor It was Hitchcock, with his penchant for “cool blondes,” who brought Fontaine to the forefront when he cast her as the second Mrs. de Winter in Rebecca (1940), the ...

Cool beauty Joan Fontaine, who gave strong performances in a number of classic films including Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rebecca” and Max Ophuls’ “Letter From an Unknown Woman,” died Sunday ...

CARMEL — Joan Fontaine, who struggled to mature in Saratoga ... In her triumphs — “Rebecca,” “Suspicion” and “The Constant Nymph” — she put glamour in Hollywood, on and off ...

“In fact, it would be bigger than Hiroshima.” To audiences, Joan Fontaine became so identified with Rebecca that many believed she played the title-role. Actually, Rebecca was Maxim de Winter ...

Joan Fontaine, an Academy Award-winning actress ... in such films as Alfred Hitchcock’s “Suspicion” and “Rebecca,” died Dec. 15 at her home in Carmel, Calif. She was 96.

Joan Fontaine, the only actress to ever win an Academy Award for acting in an Alfred Hitchcock film, has passed away at the age of 96. *The Hollywood Reporter*confirmed with Fontaine's publicist ...

CARMEL, Calif. — Academy Award-winning actress Joan Fontaine, who found stardom playing naive wives in Alfred Hitchcock’s “Suspicion” and “Rebecca” and also was featured in films by ...

By Scott Feinberg Joan Fontaine Olivia de Haviland - H 2013 ... you should have got that for the other one [Rebecca],’ so I didn’t get any satisfaction out of it at all.” ...

Oscar-winning actress who, in 1940, starred in Rebecca and had a lifelong feud with her sister Olivia de Havilland Joan Fontaine Joan Fontaine, who died last Sunday aged 96, was the younger sister ...