It was Joan Fontaine's birthday over the weekend. Her best work was arguably her earliest work as the heroines in Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca and Suspicion, for which she was nominated twice in 1941 and 1942 for the Academy Award for Best Actress, winning for Suspicion. Fontaine, of course, was the actress Olivia de Havilland's sister, and, sadly, the two were estranged throughout their adult lives. Here's the trailer for Suspicion, which is a great, great movie, and probably Cary Grant's best dramatic role:
Fontaine is also the only classic Hollywood actress memorialized in a Bruce Springsteen lyric, from his first album:
