Timeline

	1917
October 22	Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland born in Tokyo, Japan
	1919
February	Mrs. de Havilland, Joan, and Olivia sail to San Fransisco, California under doctor's orders to improve her daughters' health.
	1920
	Mrs. de Havilland, Joan, and Olivia move into the Lundblad Boardinghouse in Saratoga, California. Joan Scores 160 on an IQ test. Joan enters St. Francis Hospital in San Fransisco with German measles and strep throat.
	1924
	Mrs. de Havilland moves her daughters into the Vendome Hotel in San Jose. Mrs. de Havilland has house built with solar water-heater. Mrs. de Havilland spends a the year in Japan seeking a divorce from her estranged husband.
	1925
February	Lilian de Havilland receives a divorce from Walter de Havilland.
April	Mrs. de Havilland marries George Milan Fontaine and moves the family to 21 La Paloma in Saratoga.
	1927
	Joan briefly attends Notre Dame Convent in Belmont, California. Mr. de Havilland marries his Japanese maid, Yoki-san, at the British Embassy in Tokyo. Joan suffers from rheumatic fever.
	1932
	Joan and Olivia move in with one of their mother's friends. Joan goes to live with her father in Tokyo.
	1932-1934
	Joan attends the American School in Kami-Meguro, Japan.
	1934
September	Joan boards the S.S. President Hoover for San Fransisco. Joan dyes her hair blonde upon docking at the Embarcadero in San Fransisco.
Late	Joan begins rehearsals for the play KIND LADY.
	1935
Early	Joan makes her professional stage debut in KIND LADY.
Winter	Joan attends the Max Reinhardt Drama School. Joan accepts Edward Anderson's marriage proposal.
June 21	NO MORE LADIES released.
October 22	Joan celebrates her eighteenth birthday at the Musso-Frank Restaurant on Hollywood Blvd. with Mrs. Fontaine and Olivia.
	1936
mid-June	Joan begins a two-week run in the play CALL IT A DAY at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood.
Summer	Joan changes her name to Joan St. John which she soon changes to Joan Fontaine.
Fall	Jesse L. Lasky signs JF to a seven-year contract after seeing her in the play CALL IT A DAY.
	1937
April 9	QUALITY STREET and THE MAN WHO FOUND HIMSELF released.
May 17	Mr. de Havilland sends a manuscript, entitled A HUNDRED YEARS APART, to the manager at RKO studios. He threatens to use his incestuous story to hurt JF's career if she continues to ignore him.
June 19	Mr. de Havilland submits the same manuscript to Robert Sparks, a production chief at RKO.
June 25	YOU CAN'T BEAT LOVE released.
Summer	Lasky considers JF for the musical RADIO CITY REVELS (1937). Ann Miller is given the musical, because she is more suited for the role. JF, Olivia, and Mrs. Fontaine move into a home on Nella Vista.
September 9	MUSIC FOR MADAME released.
November 24	A DAMSEL IN DISTRESS released.

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