| LC control no. | n 83201744 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Fontaine, Joan, 1917-2013 |
| Variant(s) | Beauvoir de Havilland, Joan de, 1917-2013 De Beauvoir de Havilland, Joan, 1917-2013 De Havilland, Joan, 1917-2013 Havilland, Joan de, 1917-2013 |
| Other standard no. | 103989965 Q95076 0000000121462376 1899642 p24127 nm0000021 |
| Biography/History note | Joan Fontaine (1917-2013) was a British American actress. |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1917-10-22 |
| Death date | 2013-12-15 |
| Place of birth | Tokyo (Japan) |
| Place of death | Carmel (Calif.) |
| Field of activity | Acting |
| Profession or occupation | Actor Actors |
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| Found in | Higham, C. Sisters, the lives of Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine, 1984: CIP t.p. (Joan Fontaine) LC data base, 10/14/83 (hdg.: Fontaine, Joan, 1917- ) Halliwell's Filmgoer's comp., 1988 (Fontaine, Joan; AKA Joan de Havilland) NUCMC data from Boston Univ., Dept. of Spec. Coll. for Joan Fontaine collection, 1929-1997 (Joan Fontaine; b. Joan De Beauvoir de Havilland in Japan; came to U.S. in 1919; naturalized citizen; actress, lecturer, and author) IMDb, July 27, 2005 (Joan Fontaine; b. Oct. 22, 1917, Tokyo, Japan; sometimes credited as Joan Burfield; birth name: Joan De Beauvoir De Havilland) Wikipedia, via WWW, Oct. 17, 2012 (Joan Fontaine; Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland; b. Oct. 22, 1917 in Tokyo, Japan; spouses: Brian Aherne (m.1939-1945; divorced), William Dozier (m.1946-1951), Collier Young (m.1952-1961), Alfred Wright, Jr. (m.1964-1969); sister of Olivia de Havilland; British American actress) New York times (online), viewed Dec. 16, 2013 (in obituary published Dec. 15: Joan Fontaine; b. Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland, Oct. 22, 1917, Tokyo, to British parents; moved with her mother to Saratoga, Calif., 1919; moved back to Japan at age 15; returned to the U.S. in 1934 and soon moved to Los Angeles to pursue a film career; took the surname of her stepfather, George M. Fontaine, as her stage name; also briefly used the name Joan Burfield, inspired by a Los Angeles street sign [no publications in LC database]; d. Sunday [Dec. 15, 2013], Carmel, Calif., aged 96; patrician blond actress who rose to stardom as a haunted second wife in the Alfred Hitchcock film Rebecca in 1940 and won an Academy Award for her portrayal of a terrified newlywed in Hitchcock's Suspicion; also appeared on stage and television) |
| Associated language | eng |
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