Joan Fontaine

She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1645 Vine Street. She was nominated for an Emmy in 1955 for her performance as a blind girl in General Electric Theater's Shadow On The Heart.. In 1944 she was nominated for The Constant Nymph. She left the movies in 1956 for the stage and fulfilled her dream of being in opera. The next year she was again nominated, for Suspicion, and this time she won the award. She also played Magnolia in the 1951 version of Show Boat. In 1940, Joan received an Academy Award nomination for Rebecca. Some consider her role as Lili Vanessi in Kiss Me, Kate as her best.

Her career seemed to be ready to die, even as her sister's blossomed, but Joan changed her name to Fontaine and began receiving bigger parts in such movies as You Can't Beat Love, Quality Street, The Women and Gunga Din. She started out with dreams of being in opera, but MGM scooped her up to be in films. Because Olivia was using the family name, Joan began acting as Joan Burfield, in No More Ladies in 1935. The petite soprano was one of MGM Studios' top sopranos of the 1940s & 1950s. Both sisters moved to Hollywood to start film careers. She has one daughter. Joan returned to Tokyo to attend the American School there, but she came back in 1934 to find that her sister was making a name for herself on the stage. She married twice, first to actor John Shelton, second to actor/singer Johnnie Johnston.

But Joan's father soon went back to Japan, and he and his wife divorced. Kathryn Grayson (born February 9, 1922) is an American actress and singer who was born Zelma Kathryn Hedrick. Because Joan and her mother both had frequent illnesses, the family moved to Saratoga, California for their health. 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. Joan Fontaine (born October 22, 1917) is an international actress.