Joan Fontaine, Who Won an Oscar for Hitchcock’s ‘Suspicion,’ Dies at 96

“My sister was born a lion, and I a tiger, and in the laws of the jungle, they were never friends.”

via Joan Fontaine, star of ‘Suspicion’ and ‘Rebecca,’ dies at 96 – latimes.com.

Joan Fontaine

“Looking back on Hollywood, looking at it even today,” Ms. Fontaine wrote in “No Bed of Roses” (Morrow, 1978), her autobiography, “I realize that one outstanding quality it possesses is not the lavishness, the perpetual sunshine, the golden opportunities, but fear.” Just as “careers often begin by chance there,” she observed, “they can evaporate just as quickly.”

via Joan Fontaine, Who Won an Oscar for Hitchcock’s ‘Suspicion,’ Dies at 96 – NYTimes.com.

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7 Comments

  1. Luanne
    December 16, 2013

    Wow, what a quote.

    • December 17, 2013

      A very complicated relationship with Hollywood, and maybe with life…

  2. December 16, 2013

    Beautiful photo of a great actress who will be missed.

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