Trivia

TRIVIA

Joan is 5' 3" tall and has hazel eyes and blond hair.

JOAN FONTAINE IS NO LONGER ANSWERING FAN MAIL, REQUESTS FOR AUTOGRAPHS, PHOTOS, OR OTHER TYPES OF MEMORABILIA. She hopes her fans will be understanding about her decision. She is 87 years old now and the volume of mail she receives is too much for her to handle. Dated 12/2004.

Joan is a hole-in-one golfer at Cypress Point Golf Club and at Carmel Valley in California.

She is a licensed Interior Decorator. Her own home is furnished with English, French and Italian antiques. Coral and beige are her favorite decorating colors.

Joan is a prize-winning tuna fisherwoman.

Joan was also a licensed pilot of small aircraft.

A rose has been named in her honor. The "Joan Fontaine Rose" is an Heirloom rose that is pale peach and white. Her personal favorite rose is the "Mon Cherie" which is a red rose with a deep pink center. Joan's favorite colors in roses are white, red, and deep pink.

Joan had her own syndicated talk/interview show in the 1980's. It was broadcast from New York City.

Joan Fontaine is the Vice President Emeritus of the Episcopal Actors' Guild of America.

Joan's hand, foot and signature are in the forecourt of the Mann's Gaumann Chinese Theatre. See Miscellaneous page in Gallery for a picture.

Her Hollywood Walk of Fame star is located at 1645 Vine Street.

Miss Fontaine became an American citizen on April 23, 1943.

Joan is a Cordon Bleu cook. Cooking is still one of her greatest interests. She often makes up her own recipes.

Among Joan's current hobbies and interests are reading, gardening, her large dogs, and charity work.

She supports many charities. She has made sizeable donations to many humane societies and donates to various missions in and around Carmel.

Her best-selling, well-written autobiography, "No Bed of Roses" was published in 1978.

Joan's mother, Lilian Fontaine, appeared with Joan in two movies: "Ivy" and "The Bigamist." In the latter film, her then-husband Collier Young produced the film and appeared in the film as a barfly. "The Bigamist" was directed by Mr. Young's ex-wife, Ida Lupino, who also starred in the production.

Joan loves to do needlepoint and has painted a picture of a spooky house and a fruit still life which she donated to a charity auction in New York City.

Joan has said that her favorites of her own movies are "Letter From An Unknown Woman" and "The Constant Nymph."

Joan's daughter, Deborah Dozier Potter, is married to an attorney and lives in Sante Fe, New Mexico where they have many real estate holdings including a hotel in downtown Santa Fe which is operated by native American Indians.

Joan was a crew member of the winning hot-air balloon race in Holland.

Ms. Fontaine was a nurses'aide during World War II and also made appearances at the Hollywood Canteen in support of the American troops.

Columbia Pictures is the only major studio where Joan did not make a film.

Joan Fontaine and her second husband, William Dozier, formed Rampart Productions and produced two films, "Letter From An Unknown Woman" and "You Gotta Stay Happy." These films were released by Universal-International.

Joan held the distinction for 45 years of being the youngest Best Actress Oscar winner at age 24 until Marlee Matlin won in 1986 at the age of 21.

Joan Fontaine's house in Brentwood, California burned to the ground in 1961 due to wildfires in the hills above Los Angeles.

Boston University houses Joan Fontaine's important papers, photographs, guest books, fan letters, films, and other documents concerning her career and her private life.

Joan Fontaine is distantly related to the late Princess Diana through the Molesworth lineage.

Joan's cousin, Sir Geoffrey de Havilland, designed and built airplanes used in both World War I and World War II. He also designed and built commercial aircraft.

Joan Fontaine holds the distinctions as being the only actor or actress to win an acting Oscar for an Alfred Hitchcock film (Suspicion) and as starring in the only Hitchcock-directed film to win an Oscar as Best Picture of the Year (Rebecca).

Joan Fontaine's monologue in "This Above All" about what England means is one of the longest, if not the longest, ever spoken by an actress in a film.

Joan's Oscar was prominently featured in an episode of the TV series, "Mr. Adam and Eve" which starred Ida Lupino and Howard Duff.

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