Joan Fontaine (1917 - 2013)

British/American actress. Won an Academy Award for Suspicion and was nominated twice. She is the younger sister of Olivia de Havilland.

* October 22, 1917 Tokyo, Japan
 as Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland
 December 15, 2013 Carmel-by-the-Sea, California



Vintage magazines

Mon Film, nr. 51, 16-7 1947
Mon Film, nr. 56, 20-8 1947
Le film complet, nr. 2295, 27-7 1939

Le film complet, nr. 2325, 19-10 1939
Mon Film, nr. 7, 11-9 1946

Books by Joan Fontaine

Joan Fontaine No Bed of Roses Joan Fontaine
No Bed of Roses
1978

Books on Joan Fontaine

Marsha L. Beeman
Joan Fontaine, A Bio-Bibliography
Westport, Connecticut - London, 1994

Charles Higham
Sisters, The Story of Olivia De Haviland and Joan Fontaine
1984

Books with substantial mentioning of Joan Fontaine

Edward Gallafent Adultery and the Female Star Edward Gallafent
Adultery and the Female Star
London, 2018

Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast (eds.)
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 3. Actors and Actresses
Detroit/New York/San Francisco/London/Boston/Woodbridge, CT, 2000

Danny Peary Alternate Oscars Danny Peary
Alternate Oscars, One Critic's Defiant Choices for Best Picture, Actor, and Actress - From 1927 to the Present
New York, 1993

Robert A. Nowlan and Gwendolyn Wright Nowlan
Movie Characters of Leading Performers of the Sound Era
Chicago and London, 1990

John Kobal
People Will Talk
New York, 1985

Michael Jay (editor) Hollywood Goddesses Michael Jay (editor)
Hollywood Goddesses
London, 1982

James Robert Parish
The RKO Gals
London, 1974

Friederike Mat (ed.) Unsere Filmlieblinge Friederike Mat (ed.)
Unsere Filmlieblinge, Ein Bilderbuch
Wien, München, Düsseödorf, Bozen, 1956

Books with an entry on Joan Fontaine

David Thomson The New Biographical Dictionary of Film David Thomson
The New Biographical Dictionary of Film
New York, 2003

Paul Michael, editor in chief. James Robert Parish, associate editor The American movies reference book Paul Michael, editor in chief. James Robert Parish, associate editor
The American movies reference book, The sound era
Englewood Cliffs, N.J.,, 1969

Books with photograph(s) of Joan Fontaine

John Kobal (ed.) Movie-Star Portraits of the Forties John Kobal (ed.)
Movie-Star Portraits of the Forties, 163 Glamor Photos
New York, 1977