Joan Fontaine, Who Beat Sister for Academy Award, Dies at 96
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Joan Fontaine, who won an Academy Award for best actress in director Alfred Hitchcock’s 1941 movie “Suspicion,” fanning a lifelong feud by beating her sister, Olivia de Havilland, for the honor, has died. She was 96.
She died yesterday in her sleep at her home in Carmel, California, the Associated Press reported, citing her longtime friend, Noel Beutel.