Joan Fontaine is the only actress to have won an Oscar for acting in a Hitchcock film. “I grew up with a mother who was an old-movie buff, and when I found out Joan Fontaine’s house was going ...

In order to distinguish herself from her sister, Olivia de Havilland, who was already an established actress, Fontaine used the names Joan Burfield and Joan St John in her first few film appearances.

The mansion owned by Hollywood actress Joan Fontaine, best known for her roles in Alfred Hitchcock’s films “Rebecca” and “Suspicion,” for which she won an Academy Award is up for sale.