We Have Lost Another Legend! Oscar-Winning Actress Joan Fontaine

We are much grieved to report that we have lost another legendary and brilliant Hollywood actress. As per the media sources, Joan Fontaine, who ascended to fame and glory in the 1940s for her roles in the phenomenal director Alfred Hitchcock’s classical movies like Rebecca (1940) and Suspicion (1941), passed away yesterday at her residence in Carmel, California. She died due to some natural causes at the age of 96, as some reliable media sources reported.

She was very recognized, beautiful and charming celebrity and one of the best actresses of her time. She was also well-known for her roles in various TV dramas like Ryan's Hope (1980) and G.E. True Theater (1956-61). As an actress, she was also very reputed for her competition with her older sister Olivia de Havilland who was also a brilliant actress at that time. Like her sister, Joan also wanted to be an actress. Her career started with MGM and then got a small role in the film No More Ladies (1935) in which she was hardly perceived. After that, she didn’t work for a year and a half, but her Olivia was having much more success in movies at that time.

In 1937, she got a better role as Trudy Olson in You Can't Beat Love and after that she got various prominent roles for the next two years. She acquired her first Oscar nomination for Rebecca (1940). Many admirers considered her as the winner, but she had lost out to the actress Ginger Rogers. However, her film Rebecca won the Best Picture Award. Joan now had turned out to be a recognized part of the Hollywood set. She was again nominated for Oscar, along with her sister Olivia, for her role as Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth opposite Cary Grant in Suspicion (1941), and this time she stole the show. After that, Joan was carefully landing in the movies once in a year.

Her back-to-back successes in the Hollywood continued and she garnered her third Oscar nomination for the best actress for her role Tessa Sanger opposite Charles Boyer in novel-based movie The Constant Nymph (1943).The other well-known movies of Joan Fontaine are Jane Eyre (playing lead role with Orson Welles) and the September Affair (1950) with Joseph Cotton.

She used to interact with fans regularly until her 90th birthday. After that she only used to personally interact with fans at Christmas. She also made an official Facebook page in this regard. May her soul rest in peace.