Joan Fontaine was the actress. Joan de Havilland was the woman. She was beautiful and complicated. Talented, underused and underrated. This is all for her-and you.
The voters might well have thought Hitch was my Svengali, that after so many undistinguished performances in the past, surely it was Hitchcock who had mesmerized me into the performance I was nominated for. However, I did receive the New York Critics Award, as well as the Canadian.“
-Joan Fontaine, No Bed of Roses
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