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| Oscar-winning actress Joan Fontaine dies aged 96 | Oscar-winning actress Joan Fontaine dies aged 96 |
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| Oscar-winning actress Joan Fontaine - the star of several psychological thrillers produced by Alfred Hitchcock - has died in California aged 96. | Oscar-winning actress Joan Fontaine - the star of several psychological thrillers produced by Alfred Hitchcock - has died in California aged 96. |
| Fontaine - whose real name is Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland - died in her sleep on Sunday in her home in Carmel, her friend Noel Beutel said. | Fontaine - whose real name is Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland - died in her sleep on Sunday in her home in Carmel, her friend Noel Beutel said. |
| Born in Japan to British parents, she and her older sister Olivia moved to the US to pursue acting careers. | Born in Japan to British parents, she and her older sister Olivia moved to the US to pursue acting careers. |
| She won an Oscar as a vulnerable wife in the movie Suspicion in 1942. | She won an Oscar as a vulnerable wife in the movie Suspicion in 1942. |
| Hitchcock also cast Fontaine in the lead role in his first Hollywood work Rebecca. | Hitchcock also cast Fontaine in the lead role in his first Hollywood work Rebecca. |
| Her other films included The Constant Nymph, Jane Eyre and Letter from an Unknown Woman. | Her other films included The Constant Nymph, Jane Eyre and Letter from an Unknown Woman. |
| Fontaine's four marriages ended in divorce and her constant and lifelong feud with her sister was a Hollywood legend. | |
| She held dual British-US citizenship. | She held dual British-US citizenship. |