Nobody could raise one eyebrow and look like they were experiencing digestive discomfort like Joan Fontaine.  I’ve got quite a fount of Fontaine and her co-star circle.  For now, I’ll just share Miss Fontaine and the menacing Mrs. Danvers from “Rebecca”

JOAN FONTAINE AUTOGRAPHS

I joke with (and irritate) my friend McGarbo, who loves Joan Fontaine, that her autographs are like pennies. What I mean by that is she was such a prolific signer TTM that you can find her autographs cheaply and plentifully. Her biography “No Bed of Roses” was one of the first Hollywood biographies that I read – and I had no idea who most of the people were that she was talking about.  I was still learning.  But reading the book did inspire me to write to her and she signed TTM for me a few times throughout the years, including most recently in 2012.  It’s funny to think when I sent her that last batch, that I spelled out – with numbered bullet points - WHY I had sent her each photo.  I’m not sure she cared, but I think it was nice for her to receive daily packages from fans around the world.  Here’s just a couple of my 20+ Joan Fontaine autographs.  The photos signed in turquoise were from the first batch that I sent her in 1979.

See this 41 second clip of Joan Fontain getting her Oscar and see how many celebrities you recognize.  If there’s any lip-readers out there, please let me know exactly what her sister Olivia de Havilland is saying to Burgess Meredith (?) before she lost the Oscar to Joan around the 30 second mark.

JUDITH ANDERSON AUTOGRAPHS

Mrs. Danvers in “Rebecca” in indelibly etched in my mind as one of the all-time best screen villainesses.  I think she would have been cast beautifully as Countess Elizabeth (Dracula) Bathory.  Her impressive resume has such fun variance from being hit on the head with a cane and falling backwards down a staircase in “The Strange Love of Martha Ivers” to a nursemaid of Moses in “The Ten Commandments” to the fantastic “Lady Scarface”.  This scene in the bedroom of “Rebecca” is where the crazy really begins with Mrs. Danvers