A delicately beautiful blonde, Joan Fontaine followed her older sister Olivia de Havilland into the business and triumphed in their 1941 Best Actress Oscar battle, winning for Alfred Hitchcock's "Suspicion" (de Havilland would eventually take home two statuettes). She actually made more of an impact with her star-making turn the year before in Hitchcock's first Hollywood film, "Rebecca", playing…
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