
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 during the "Golden Age". She was born in Tokyo, Japan, in what was known as the International Settlement. Her father was a British patent attorney with a lucrative practice in Japan, but due to Joan and older sister Olivia de Havilland's recurring ailments the family moved to California in the hopes of improving their health. Mrs. de Havilland and the two girls settled in Saratoga while their father went back to his practice in Japan. Joan's parents did not get along well and divorced soon afterward. Mrs. de Havilland had a desire to be an actress but her dreams were curtailed when she married, but now she hoped to pass on her dream to Olivia and Joan. While Olivia pursued a stage career, Joan went back to Tokyo, where she attended the American School. In 1934 she came back to California, where her sister was already making a name for herself on the stage. Joan likewise joined a theater group in San Jose and then Los Angeles to try her luck there. After moving to L.A., Joan adopted the name of Joan Burfield because she didn't want to infringe upon Olivia, who was using the family surname. She tested at MGM and gained a small role in No More Ladies (1935), but she was scarcely noticed and Joan was idle for a year and a half. During this time she roomed with Olivia, who was having much more success in films. In 1937, this time calling herself Joan Fontaine, she landed a better role as Trudy Olson in You Can't Beat Love (1937) and then an uncredited part in Quality Street (1937). Although the next two years saw her in better roles, she still yearned for something better. In 1940 she garnered her first Academy Award nomination for Rebecca (1940). Although she thought she should have won, (she lost out to Ginger Rogers in Kitty Foyle (1940)), she was now an established member of the Hollywood set. She would again be Oscar-nominated for her role as Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth in Suspicion (1941), and this time she won. Joan was making one film a year but choosing her roles well. In 1942 she starred in the well-received This Above All (1942). The following year she appeared in The Constant Nymph (1943). Once again she was nominated for the Oscar, she lost out to Jennifer Jones in The Song of Bernadette (1943). By now it was safe to say she was more famous than her older sister and more fine films followed. In 1948, she accepted second billing to Bing Crosby in The Emperor Waltz (1948). Joan took the year of 1949 off before coming back in 1950 with September Affair (1950) and Born to Be Bad (1950). In 1951 she starred in Paramount's Darling, How Could You! (1951), which turned out badly for both her and the studio and more weak productions followed. Absent from the big screen for a while, she took parts in television and dinner theaters. She also starred in many well-produced Broadway plays such as Forty Carats and The Lion in Winter. Her last appearance on the big screen was The Witches (1966) and her final appearance before the cameras was Good King Wenceslas (1994). She is, without a doubt, a lasting movie icon.

レベッカ

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

忘れじの面影

Othello

断崖

The Women

Darling, How Could You!

The Man Who Found Himself

Before the Fact: Suspicious Hitchcock

アカデミー賞

What's My Line?

ジェーン・エア

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

Something to Live For

Hotel

Ivanhoe

This Above All

You Gotta Stay Happy

Becoming Cary Grant

Island in the Sun

Ivy

Cannon

Gunga Din

Kiss the Blood Off My Hands

A Damsel in Distress

Canciones para después de una guerra

Letter to Loretta

The World of Hammer

The Bigamist

General Electric Theater

Until They Sail

The Love Boat

Talking Pictures

The Constant Nymph

The Affairs of Susan

Flight to Tangier

The Emperor Waltz

The Witches

Blond Cheat

You Can't Beat Love

The Art Director

Breakdowns of 1942

生まれながらの悪女

Casanova's Big Night

September Affair

Quality Street

A Certain Smile

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

世にも不思議な物語

Tender Is the Night

The 20th Century Fox Hour

The Mike Douglas Show

Serenade

Frenchman's Creek

From This Day Forward

Maid's Night Out

Man of Conquest

Music for Madame

Aloha Paradise

The Bing Crosby Show

Sky Giant

No More Ladies

Decameron Nights

Crossings

The Duke of West Point

Hollywood: The Selznick Years

A Million to One

Good King Wenceslas

The Users

Howard Hughes: His Women and His Movies

All by Myself: The Eartha Kitt Story

Dark Mansions

Showbiz Ballyhoo

Joan Fontaine, "Rebecca" Screen Test