Oscar-winning actress Joan Fontaine, who rose to fame during Hollywood's golden age as the star of several Alfred Hitch.cock classics, died from natural causes at her home in Carmel, northern California on December 16, 2013 aged 96, US media reports said. 

Born in Japan to British parents, Fontaine moved in 1919 to California, where she and her elder sister -screen idol Olivia de Havilland-were to shape successful movie careers.Fontaine and de Havilland remain the only sisters to have won lead actress honours at the Academy Awards.Yet the two sisters also had an uneasy relationship, with Fontaine recording a bitter competition in her own account "No Bed of Roses ". 

Fontaine began her acting career in her late teens with Largely less important roles on the stage and later in mostly B-movies in the 1930s. It was not before famous British film director Hitchcock spotted her a decade later that her career took off. 

Greatly surprised by her expressive looks, the suspense master cast Fontaine in his first US film, a 1940 adaptation of the Daphne du Maurier novel "Rebecca". She received an Academy Award nomination for her performance as a troubled wife. A year later, Fontaine finally won the long-sought golden figure, for her role as leading lady in "Suspicion" opposite Cary Grant, becoming the first and only actress to earn the title for a Hitchock film. 

Although her sister, Olivia de Havilland, preceded her in gaining Hollywood fame, Fontaine was the first of the sisters to win an Oscar, beating Olivia's nomination as best actress in Mitchell Leisen's "Hold Back the Dawn". 

The dislike ,between the sisters was felt at the Oscars ceremony."I froze. I stared across the table, where Olivia was sitting.'Get up there!' she whispered commandingly," Fontaine said."All the dislike we'd felt toward each other as children...all came rushing back in quickly changing pictures...I felt Olivia would spring across the table and seize me by the hair." 

Olivia did not win her first Oscar until 1946, for her role as the lover of a World War I pilot in Leisen's " To Each His Own". Fontaine later made it known that her. sister had slighted her as she attempted to offer congratulations."She took one look at me, ignored my hand, seized her Oscar and wheeled away," she said. 

The sisters were also reportedly competitors in love. Howard Hughes, a strange businessman who dated the elder de Havilland for a time, offered marriage to Fontaine several times."I married first, won the Oscar before Olivia did, and if I die first, she'll undoubtedly be extremely angry because I beat her to it!" Fontaine once joked. 

As her film career fruited in the 1950s, Fontaine turned to television and dinner theatre, and also appeared in several Broadway productions, including the Lion in Winter". Anything but the ordinary lady, Fontaine was also a licensed pilot, a champion balloonist, an accomplished golfer, a licensed .decoration designer and a first-class cook. QUESTIONS:

Q1:
1. Whose birthplace was Japan?
2. Who originally came from Japan?
3. Whose mother gave birth to her in Japan?
Q2:
1. Is Joan Fontaine of Japanese heritage?
2. Is Joan Fontaine ethnically Japanese?
3. Was Joan Fontaine born to Japanese parents?
Q3:
1. What was Joan Fontaine's heritage?
2. What was the ethnicity of Joan Fontaine's parents?
3. What nationality was Joan Fontaine?
Q4:
1. When was Joan Fontaine born?
2. What was Joan Fontaine's birthday?
3. On what day did Joan Fontaine come into the world?
Q5:
1. Is Joan Fontaine still living?
2. Is Joan Fontaine still alive?
3. Is Joan Fontaine currently alive?
Q6:
1. When did Joan Fontaine pass away?
2. On what date did Joan Fontaine pass?
3. What was the day when Joan Fontaine died?
Q7:
1. Did Joan Fontaine spend most of her life in Japan?
2. Did Joan Fontaine spend her whole life in Japan?
3. Was Joan Fontaine's main residence located in Japan?
Q8:
1. When did Joan Fontaine leave Japan?
2. When did Joan Fontaine move away from Japan?
3. In what year did Joan Fontaine move out of Japan?
Q9:
1. Did Joan Fontaine move to Florida with her family?
2. Did Joan Fontaine's family go to Florida from Japan?
3. Was Florida the place that Joan Fontaine's family moved to ?
Q10:
1. Where did Joan Fontaine's family move to?
2. Where did Joan Fontaine's family go from Japan?
3. When they moved out of Japan, where did Joan Fontaine and her family go?
Q11:
1. What is Joan Fontaine's claim to fame?
2. What is Joan Fontaine famous for?
3. Why is Joan Fontaine well known?
Q12:
1. Was Joan Fontaine's sister a movie star like her?
2. Did Joan Fontaine have movie rols like she did?
3. Did Joan Fontaine's sister also work in the acting business?
Q13:
1. Who was Joan Fontaine's sister?
2. What was the name of Joan Fontaine's sister?
3. Who did Joan Fontaine have for a sister?
Q14:
1. What distinction do Joan Fontaine and her sister share?
2. What distinction do Joan Fontaine and Olivia de Havilland share?
3. What is the honor that both Joan Fontaine and Olivia de Havilland have?
Q15:
1. Have sisters other than Joan Fontaine and hers both won a leading actress Oscar?
2. Have there been other pairs of sisters, besides Joan Fontaine and Olivia de Havilland, that have won the Acadamy Award for best leading actress?
3. Has the Oscar for best leading actress gone to other pairs of sisters, besides Joan Fontaine and Olivia de Havilland?
Q16:
1. What famous director took notice of Joan Fontaine?
2. What acclaimed director took an interest in Joan Fontaine?
3. What director's eye did Joan Fontaine catch?
Q17:
1. Did Joan Fontaine star in Hitchcock's last US film?
2. Did Joan Fontaine star in the last film Hitchcock made in the United States?
3. Was it Hitchcock's last American film that Joan Fontaine had a role in?
Q18:
1. How many films had Alfred Hitchcock made in the US before Rebecca?
2. How many movies had Alfred Hitchcock made in the states before Rebecca?
3. Where did Rebecca count among the movies that Hitchcock made in America
Q19:
1. Which Alfred Hitchcock movie did Joan Fontaine star in?
2. Which of Hitchcock's movies did Joan Fontaine have the leading role in?
3. What was the name of the Alfred Hitchcock movie that Joan Fontaine starred in?
Q20:
1. Did Joan Fontaine get an Oscar for her performance in Rebecca?
2. Was Joan Fontaine's Academy Award for her role in Rebecca?
3. Did Joan Fontaine's role in Rebecca get her the Oscar?
Q21:
1. What movie got Joan Fontaine her Oscar?
2. For what film did Joan Fontaine win an Academy Award?
3. What movie did Joan Fontaine receive an Oscar for her performance in?
Q22:
1. Did Joan Fontaine's sister win an Oscar before she did?
2. Was Olivia de Havilland the first sister to win an Academy Award?
3. Did Olivia de Havilland win an Oscar before Joan Fontaine?
Q23:
1. Could everyone at the Academy Awards see the love between Joan Fontaine and her sister?
2. Was the affection between Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine apparent at hte Oscars?
3. Was it obvious to everyone at the Oscars how much Joan Fontaine and Olivia de Havilland liked each other?
