Joan Fontaine

She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1645 Vine Street. Grey was a regular on television in the 1950s, appearing on The Ford Theatre Hour, Your Show of Shows, Four Star Playhouse, The Millionaire, Science Fiction Theater, Wagon Train, and many more. In 1944 she was nominated for The Constant Nymph. Notable movies include Tarzan's New York Adventure, Idaho, Wyoming, Sweet Rosie O'Grady, Flame of Barbary Coast, Jungle Jim, The Rose Tattoo, Jeanne Eagels, Madame X and Airport. The next year she was again nominated, for Suspicion, and this time she won the award. She left MGM in 1942, and signed with several different studios over the years, working steadily. In 1940, Joan received an Academy Award nomination for Rebecca. Grey returned to films in the 1930s with bit parts and extra work, but she eventually signed a contract with MGM and appeared in such movies as Another Thin Man, Hullabaloo and The Big Store.

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 continued acting for a few more years, but then left movies in order to finish her education. Because Olivia was using the family name, Joan began acting as Joan Burfield, in No More Ladies in 1935. Virginia debuted at the age of ten in the silent film Uncle Tom's Cabin as Little Eva. Both sisters moved to Hollywood to start film careers. One of her early babysitters was Gloria Swanson. 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 was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of director Ray Grey.

But Joan's father soon went back to Japan, and he and his wife divorced. Virginia Grey (March 22, 1917 - July 31, 2004) was an American actress. 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.