Joan Fontaine, Oscar-Winning Star of Hitchcock Classics, Dies at 96
Source: Variety
Cool beauty Joan Fontaine, who gave strong performances in a number of classic films including Alfred Hitchcocks Rebecca and Max Ophuls Letter From an Unknown Woman, has died, according to a report in the Hollywood Reporter. She was 96.
Though acclaimed for her talent and elegance, the actress was equally well known for her decades-long feud with sister Olivia de Havilland.
Her porcelain beauty sometimes underlined an icy hauteur (which became more pronounced in later years), but she is best remembered for performances of vulnernability, such as in The Constant Nymph (her personal favorite) and Hitchcocks Suspicion, which brought her an Oscar.
Read more: http://variety.com/2013/film/news/joan-fontaine-oscar-winning-star-of-hitchcock-classics-dies-at-96-1200960743/
BumRushDaShow
(127,308 posts)Floodgates have opened today.
Rest in peace..
JI7
(89,174 posts)at least they mostly seem to have lived into old age.
KoKo
(84,711 posts)Dontcha Think?
valerief
(53,235 posts)olddad56
(5,732 posts)Fantastic Anarchist
(7,309 posts)Spirochete
(5,264 posts)Anybody that didn't die today - raise your hand!
1000words
(7,051 posts)RIP, Joan.
dlwickham
(3,316 posts)Peter O'Toole and Tom Laughlin who played in the Billy Jack movies
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Laughlin
rug
(82,333 posts)onehandle
(51,122 posts)Can't do it, Sally.
diabeticman
(3,121 posts)MFM008
(19,776 posts)yaaaaaaaahhhhh. I did like Joan in Rebecca.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)RIP
p.s...sister Olivia de Havilland is 97 (DOB July 1, 1916).
deurbano
(2,891 posts)nolabear
(41,915 posts)SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)Skittles
(152,964 posts)yes indeed
Beacool
(30,244 posts)I liked Joan's work and also her sister Olivia's. It's a shame that they never reconciled.
May she rest in peace.
P.S. What's going on, they are dropping like flies. This is the 4th death announcement today.