Joan Fontaine


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10/21/1917
Tokyo, Japan
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Is a licensed interior decorator and a licensed pilot.
Made her screen debut in 1935's No More Ladies billed as Joan Burfield; has also used the name Joan St. John.
Costarred with her mother in Ivy and The Bigamist.
Autobiography No Bed of Roses was published in 1978.
Is vice-president emeritus of the Episcopal Actors' Guild of America.
Had a hole-in-one at both California's Cypress Point and Carmel Valley Golf Clubs.
She and Olivia de Havilland were the first sisters to win Oscars and the first ones to be Oscar-nominated in the same year, 1941 (Joan won for Suspicion and Olivia was nominated
Favorite leading man was Charles Boyer, her costar in 1943's The Constant Nymph.