Joan Fontaine (born October 22, 1917) is a British American actress. She became an American citizen in April 1943. She is
the younger sister of actress Olivia de Havilland, also an Academy Award winner. Along with Luise Rainer, Gloria Stuart, Shirley
Temple, Deanna Durbin and Olivia de Havilland, Fontaine is one of the last surviving female stars from Hollywood of the 1930s.
She is notably the only actress to ever win the Leading Lady Oscar in a film directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
