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At the peak of her career, Joan Fontaine was the reigning heroine of Hollywood movie romances. In time, she became more famous for a lifelong feud with her sister, Olivia deHavilland. She has always claimed that the rift was over-exagerrated. Whether or not that is true, her long career has lost some attention because of it.
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By 1937, this time calling herself Joan Fontaine, she landed a better role as Trudy Olson in You Can't Beat Love (1937). Later that year she took an uncredited part in Quality Street (1937). Although the next two years saw her in better roles, she still yearned for something better. In 1940 she garnered her first Academy Award nomination for Rebecca (1940). Although she thought she should have won, (she lost out to Ginger Rogers in Kitty Foyle: The Natural History of a Woman (1940)), she was now an established member of the Hollywood set. She would again be Oscar-nominated for her role as Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth in Suspicion (1941), and this time she won.
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Joan grew up in Los Angeles. Her parents encouraged her to learn to play the violin at a very young age. At six, she joined Peter Meremblum's Junior Symphony. This led to her first film appearance, as a child violinist in The Emperor Waltz, starring Bing Crosby and Joan Fontaine.
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One Step Beyond - The Visitor, features host John Newland, Warren Beatty, and Joan Fontaine. This episode is a classic - with a weird time warp, where Beatty visits his wife as a young man, and laments the loss of their baby. He has this time warp visitation when he gets in a car wreck in the snow and almost dies. ooooh, spooky!
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Tras esta película adoptaría definitivamente el apellido artístico de Fontaine. A finales de la década de los 30 su rostro apareció en destacables títulos, como la película de George Stevens con el genial bailarín Fred Astaire, "Señorita en desgracia" (1937), "Olivia" (1937), un film también dirigido por Stevens que esetaba protagonizado por Katherine Hepburn, "Mujeres" (1939) de George Cukor, o "Gunga Din", la obra maestra de aventuras realizada por Stevens.
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