Celebrating Joan Fontaine born Oct 22, in 1917 - Over 70 roles including A Damsel in Distress, Casanova's Big Night, Suspicion, Rebecca, The Constant Nymph, Jane Eyre, Frenchman's Creek, Letter from an Unknown Woman... #botd Fun Fact: Won a Best Actress Oscar for Suspicion — making her the only actor ever to win an Oscar for an Alfred Hitchcock film http://www.classicmoviehub.com/bio/joan-fontaine/ | Classic Movie Hub

The Lovely Joan Fontaine in Rebecca 1940 Alfred Hitchcock first American Movie Rebecca is a 1940 American romantic psychological thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It was Hitchcock's first American project, and his first film under contract with producer David O. Selznick. The screenplay by Robert E. Sherwood and Joan Harrison, and adaptation by Philip MacDonald and Michael Hogan, were based on the 1938 novel of the same name by Daphne du Maurier. The film stars Laurence Olivier as the