Talk:Joan Fontaine

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"Devout" Episcopalian?
The article states that she was a "devout" Episcopalian. What does that mean? Episcopalians have no fixed moral beliefs or codes of conduct. As Robin Williams stated in his "Top Ten Reasons to be an Episcopalian," https://www.theodysseyonline.com/robin-williams-top-10-reasons-episcopalian it is all of the pageantry, none of the guilt.John Paul Parks (talk) 14:08, 13 March 2018 (UTC)

Biography at Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center
is a biography of Fontaine with details not included here. (Her papers are archived there.)--Abd (talk) 21:35, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Death
https://twitter.com/ScottFeinberg/status/412376919259115521

Rest In Peace
This is actually very ironic. Over the weekend, I was randomly looking up articles on Wikipedia and came upon the Joan Fontaine article. Two days later, she dies. Wow. Such a shock.

ActorBoss (talk) 22:09, 16 December 2013 (UTC)

Asian
Why was Joan Fontaine was born in Tokyo, Japan? Joan Fontaine does not have Asian at all. Not Harley at all have any Asian for Joan Fontaine. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.101.7.185 (talk) 13:26, 6 December 2015 (UTC)

Did you bother to read the article? It clearly states that she was born in Japan of British parents who happened to be living there at the time. 2602:306:BDC0:CF90:C9D7:2D7D:8E87:74DF (talk) 00:52, 26 April 2016 (UTC)

Reason for Different Last-Name
her mother re-married a storekeeper surnamed Fontaine.

perhaps the change of surname was to distinguish herself from her sister on the silver stage, or, perhaps being the younger sister, she felt less connection with her father — Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.178.28.140 (talk) 21:47, 12 July 2023 (UTC)

Middle Name
is it known why her middle name was de Beauvoir — did her parents have any special connection to Simone de Beauvoir? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.178.28.140 (talk) 21:50, 12 July 2023 (UTC)

Name Change
Please add information from other sources (specifically less hossip, more respected sources such as IMBd. X-ref their information regarding Joan's name change.  It was not Joan's mother acting out some kind of favouritism at Joan's expense.  Joan's mother encouraged both daughters and even paid for acting lessons for Joan.  To only make brief mention using a one-sided source is a disservice to biographical articles. Here is a segment from the IMBd biography.  I encourage the authors to investigate this.

After moving to L.A., Joan adopted the name of Joan Burfield because she didn't want to infringe upon Olivia, who was using the family surname.

In addition, in consideration of the recent lawsuit filed by Olivia concerning the damage false or out-of-context stayements can cause character damage. Statements portrayed as biographically accurate, especially matters of opinion referenced in Wikipedia articles, should not exclude sources that may be less titillating, but still equally valid, when presenting opinion as print-worthy. Tesseract501 (talk) 03:08, 13 July 2017 (UTC)

Orphaned references in Joan Fontaine
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Joan Fontaine's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "times": From Isabelle Adjani:  From Peggy Ashcroft: "Obituary: Dame Peggy Ashcroft", The Times, 15 June 1991, p. 14 From Lynn Redgrave:  From Edith Evans: "Dame Edith Evans – An actress of genius and dedication", 15 October 1976, p. 15 

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 15:57, 5 October 2018 (UTC)

re: Academy Award
Joan Fontaine was only nominated for an Oscar for "Rebecca". She did not win.PrairieCat (talk) 04:27, 13 October 2018 (UTC)

I misunderstood. My mistake. How do I delete this? Hahah! Apologies to the author of this page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by PrairieCat (talk • contribs) 04:31, 13 October 2018 (UTC)

Her death: was she cremated or not?
The article states about her death that, "According to her longtime friend and secretary, Susan Pfeiffer, Joan Fontaine was not cremated and her ashes were not scattered on the Pacific Ocean, as known." What does "as known" actually mean in this context? KJRehberg (talk) 01:09, 20 October 2019 (UTC)


 * I couldn't find anything that says whether she was cremated or not, and it's not particularly notable anyway, so I've removed the entire sentence. Clarityfiend (talk) 19:26, 20 October 2019 (UTC)

Children
Why is it, that there is hardly ever any information about their children? BrendaRegister 21:39, 31 December 2021 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by BrendaRegister (talk • contribs)