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Joan Fontaine (born October 22, 1917) is an international actress. Born Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland in Tokyo, Japan, the daughter of a British patent attorney with a practice in Japan, she is the younger sister of actress Olivia de Havilland.
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Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland, who was to become known as Joan Fontaine, was born in Tokyo on October 22 nd 1917. The sister of Olivia de Havilland, she was the daughter of a British attorney. Joan, Olivia and their mother moved to California a little later, with their father remaining in Japan, and not long after their parents decided to divorce.
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Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland was born on October 22, 1917 in Tokyo, Japan. She was the second daughter born in the de Havilland household, the first being Olivia Mary. In 1919 the de Havillands split, Walter de Havilland was getting a little too friendly with the family help. Lilian de Havilland took her two ailing daughters to California. Joan suffered from many illnesses which caused her to miss a lot of school and other youthful activities. While Olivia was gathering many friends with her charm and beauty, Joan went unnoticed by most.
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Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland was born on October 22, 1917 in Tokyo, Japan. She moved to California with her sister Olivia because of health concerns. It wasn't until 1937 that Joan changed her last name to Fontaine and became one of Hollywood's leading actresses. Nominated for an Oscar for her performance in SUSPICION (1941) Joan ... happened to be photographed wearing a very simple diamond band in the film.
In 1924, Lilian left her daughters with Fontaine and sailed to Japan. She had to establish residence there in order to file for divorce from Walter. In her mother's absence, Fontaine began to show an interest in the bodies of his stepdaughters-to-be that made the sisters uneasy.
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