Joan Fontaine 1917-2013
Joan Fontaine and Judith Anderson in the 1940 Academy Award-winning "Rebecca," directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
An Oscar-winning actress (for Hitchcock's "Suspicion"), Fontaine appeared in more than 30 films and numerous TV appearances during a career spanning nearly six decades. Fontaine died at her Carmel, Calif., home on Sunday, Dec. 15, 2013. She was 96.
By CBSNews.com senior producer David Morgan
"Quality Street"
Left: Joan Fontaine made an uncredited appearance in the period film, "Quality Street." (1937), which starred Katharine Hepburn.
Fontaine was born Joan de Havilland in 1917 in Tokyo, where her British parents lived. Her family moved Joan and her younger sister, Olivia de Havilland, to California in 1919.
After appearing in a play in Los Angeles, Joan was signed to her first film, "Quality Street," taking as her name that of her mother's second husband.
"The Duke of West Point"
"Gunga Din"
"The Women"
"Rebecca"
"Rebecca"
"Rebecca"
"Suspicion"
"This Above All"
"The Constant Nymph"
"Jane Eyre"
"Jane Eyre"
"Frenchman's Creek"
"Frenchman's Creek"
"Ivy"
"Letter From an Unknown Woman"
"You Gotta Stay Happy"
"Kiss the Blood Off My Hands"
"September Affair"
"Born to Be Bad"
"Ivanhoe"
"Casanova's Big Night"
"Until They Sail"
"Island in the Sun"
Fontaine's most daring role was in the 1957 film "Island in the Sun," about an interracial romance. Several Southern cities banned the movie, which co-starred Harry Belafonte, after threats from the Ku Klux Klan.
"Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea"
"Tender Is the Night"
"The Witches"
Joan Fontaine (with Leonard Rossiter) discovers that black magic cultists have taken up in a quiet English village in the Hammer horror film, "The Witches" (1966).
In later years Fontaine returned to the stage, appearing on Broadway in "Tea and Sympathy" "Forty Carats." She made numerous TV appearances, including "The Love Boat," ''Cannon," and the soap opera, "Ryan's Hope," for which she received Emmy nomination.