Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland (October 22, 1917 – December 15, 2013), known professionally as Joan Fontaine, was an English-American actress who is best known for her starring roles in Hollywood films ...

A generation apart, each burst into fame in a great director’s movie that won the Academy Award for Best Picture: Joan Fontaine in Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca (1940), Peter O’Toole in David Lean’s ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Oscar-winning actress Joan Fontaine, whose film career was marked by a long-running rivalry with her sister, Olivia de Havilland, died on Sunday at age 96 at her home in Carmel ...

Celebrity deaths can come in dribbles or deluges. Around Christmas it can get downright blizzardy for Deceased Artists — the phrase that Media Funhouse’s Ed Grant applies to the late great. Among the ...

According to Joan Fontaine, the actress was born to feud with sister Olivia de Havilland. Literally. "Olivia so hated the idea of having a sibling that she wouldn't go near my crib," Fontaine told ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Oscar-winning actress Joan Fontaine, one of the last of the leading ladies from Hollywood's Golden Age whose career was marked by a storied and bitter rivalry with her older ...

LOS ANGELES – Joan Fontaine, the patrician blond actress who rose to stardom as a haunted second wife in the Alfred Hitchcock film “Rebecca” in 1940 and won an Academy Award for her portrayal of a ...