Joan Fontaine

She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1645 Vine Street. Griffith has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1560 Vine Street. In 1944 she was nominated for The Constant Nymph. In 1938, she wrote the lyrics for the Washington Redskins's fight song, Hail to the Redskins. The next year she was again nominated, for Suspicion, and this time she won the award. She left acting in 1932 except for one return in 1961, in Paradise Alley. In 1940, Joan received an Academy Award nomination for Rebecca. In 1929, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for the movie The Divine Lady.

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. Corinne Griffith (November 24, 1894 - July 13, 1979) was an American actress, sometimes known as the "Orchid Lady." Born in Texarkana, Texas, she was one of many popular silent film stars, who did not survive the transition to sound. Because Olivia was using the family name, Joan began acting as Joan Burfield, in No More Ladies in 1935. Both sisters moved to Hollywood to start film careers. 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.

But Joan's father soon went back to Japan, and he and his wife divorced. 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.