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Lilian Augusta Fontaine (née Ruse, formerly de Havilland; 11 June 1886 – 20 February 1975) was an English actress and mother of Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine.
May 22, 2020 · It’s said that the girls’ mother, Lilian Augusta Ruse de Havilland Fontaine, wouldn’t let young Joan use the de Havilland name, even telling Joan that she couldn’t work with Warner Bros., as it was “Olivia’s studio.” Why drive the wedge between them?
Her mother, Lilian Augusta Ruse de Havilland Fontaine (1886–1975), was educated at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and became a stage actress who left her career after going to Tokyo with her husband.
Mar 17, 2024 · She was born Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland on 22 October 1917 in Tokyo, Japan, the younger daughter of Walter Augustus de Havilland (1872–1968), a British patent attorney with a practice in Japan, and Lilian Augusta Ruse (1886–1975), a British actress known by her stage name of Lillian Fontaine.
- Alfred Wright, Jr, Collier Hudson Young
- December 15, 2013
- October 22, 1917
Dec 16, 2013 · Ms. Fontaine was only 24 when she took home her Oscar in 1942, the youngest best-actress winner at the time, but her victory was equally notable because her older sister, Olivia de Havilland, was...
Joan Fontaine. Actress: Suspicion. Born Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland on October 22, 1917, in Tokyo, Japan, in what was known as the International Settlement, to British parents, Lilian Augusta (Ruse), a former actress, and Walter Augustus de Havilland, an English professor and patent attorney.
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Born Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland on October 22, 1917, in Tokyo, Japan, in what was known as the International Settlement, to British parents, Lilian Augusta (Ruse), a former actress, and Walter Augustus de Havilland, an English professor and patent attorney.
