Joan Fontaine

Joan Fontaine (born October 22 1917) is an American actress. She was born Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland in Tokyo, Japan, the younger daughter of Walter de Havilland, and the former Lilian Augusta Ruse, an actress known by her stage name of Lilian Fontaine, who married in 1914. Fontaine's father, Walter, was a British patent attorney with a practice in Japan.

Sources

Fontaine, Joan. No Bed of Roses. Berkley Publishing Group, 1979. ISBN 0425050289

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Current Biography 1944. H.W. Wilson Company, 1945.

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