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Joan Fontaine – a career in pictures

Joan Fontaine in pictures: Joan Fontaine
Joan Fontaine poses for photographer Fred Hendrickson, circa 1930 Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Joan Fontaine in pictures: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine and Douglas Fairbanks Jr in Gunga Din
Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine and Douglas Fairbanks Jr in Gunga Din (1939) Photograph: Courtesy Everett Collection/Rex Features
Joan Fontaine in pictures: JOAN_FONTAINE OBITUARY
Norma Shearer, Rosalind Russell and Joan Fontaine in The Women (1939) Photograph: Cinetext/MGM/Allstar
Joan Fontaine in pictures: Joan Fontaine embraces Laurence Olivier in Rebecca
Joan Fontaine and Laurence Olivier in Rebecca (1940) Photograph: Cinetext/Allstar Collection/Allstar
Joan Fontaine in pictures: Joan Fontaine, Billy Bevan and Cary Grant in Suspicion
Joan Fontaine, Billy Bevan and Cary Grant in 1941's Suspicion Photograph: Courtesy Everett Collection/Rex Features
Joan Fontaine in pictures: Orson Welles stars alongside Joan Fontaine in Jane Eyre
Orson Welles and Joan Fontaine in Robert Stevenson's Jane Eyre in 1944 Photograph: Cinetext/Allstar Collection/United Artists/Allstar
Joan Fontaine update: Joan Fontaine and Olivia de Havilland
Joan Fontaine (left) with her sister Olivia de Havilland, circa 1945 Photograph: Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images
Joan Fontaine in pictures: Joan Fontaine and Bing Crosby in The Emperor Waltz
Joan Fontaine and Bing Crosby in the The Emperor Waltz in 1948, directed by Billy Wilder Photograph: Cinetext/Allstar Collection/United Artists/Allstar
Joan Fontaine in pictures: Fontaine stars in Letter from an Unknown Woman
Louis Jourdan and Joan Fontaine in a publicity still for Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948) Photograph: Courtesy Everett Collection/Rex Features
Joan Fontaine in pictures: BORN TO BE BAD, Joan Fontaine, 1950
The poster for Nicholas Ray's film noir Born to be Bad (1950) Photograph: Courtesy Everett Collection/Rex Features
Joan Fontaine in pictures: Joan Fontaine cooks dinner with her daughters, circa 1955
A publicity shot of Joan Fontaine with her daughters Maritita Pareja and Deborah Leslie, circa 1955 Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis
Joan Fontaine in pictures: Dana Andrews and Joan Fontaine in Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
Dana Andrews and Joan Fontaine in Fritz Lang's Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956) Photograph: Cinetext/Allstar Collection/RKO/Allstar
Joan Fontaine in pictures: Joan Fontaine and Tony Perkins in Tea and Sympathy
Joan Fontaine and Anthony Perkins in Elia Kazan's stage production of Tea and Sympathy in 1957 Photograph: George Karger/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Joan Fontaine in pictures: Joan Fontaine and Harry Belafonte in Island in the Sun
Joan Fontaine and Harry Belafonte in Robert Rossen's Island in the Sun in 1957 Photograph: 20th Century Fox/Allstar
Joan Fontaine in pictures: Joan Fontaine in 1990
Joan Fontaine in 1990 Photograph: Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
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