‘I bequeath all my beauty to my younger sister, Joan, since she has ... old de Havilland broke one of Fontaine’s collarbones by pushing her over by a swimming pool and jumping on her.

Joan Fontaine, an Academy Award-winning actress whose delicate beauty made her a movie star in the 1940s and who excelled at portraying romantic vulnerability in such films as Alfred Hitchcock’s ...

CARMEL — Joan Fontaine, who struggled to mature in Saratoga then flowered to fame in the golden age of Hollywood, died Sunday at her Carmel home. She was 96. Fontaine was more than a half ...

Joan Fontaine's 1942 Oscar was so much more than a trophy. Competing head-to-head with her older, more famous sister — “Gone With the Wind” star Olivia de Havilland — it finally was proof ...

Oscar-winning actress Joan Fontaine - the star of several psychological thrillers produced by Alfred Hitchcock - has died in California aged 96. Fontaine - the sister of fellow Oscar-winner Olivia ...

Joan followed quickly, on October 22, 1917. “From birth,” Fontaine writes in No Bed of ... and her older sister became downright abusive. While swimming one day as a teenager, she claims ...

“I bequeath all my beauty to my younger sister, Joan, since she has ... old de Havilland broke one of Fontaine’s collarbones by pushing her over by a swimming pool and jumping on her.