Lunch Break Video: See Joan Fontaine, who turns 92 today, stump the panel on “What’s My Line”

By the time Joan Fontaine made this 1973 appearance on What’s My Line, her stellar feature film career was all but over.

But what a career it was. She had managed to emerge from the shadow of older sister Olivia de Havilland when she landed the leading role opposite Laurence Olivier in 1940’s Rebecca and earned an Oscar nomination for best actress.

A year later, she won the Academy Award  for the Alfred Hitchcock-directed Suspicion beating out Greer Garson, Bette Davis, Barbara Stanwyck and – get this – her sister Olivia!

She was nominated again the next year for The Constant Nymph and went on to star is such well-known films as Jane Eyre, Ivanhoe, September Affair, Tbe Emperor Waltz and Island in the Sun.

Her 1978 autobiography, No Bed of Roses painted a very unflattering portrait of sister Olivia whom she has not spoken to since the mid-70s. It appears that neither is interested in reconciling even as they have reached their 90s.

Still, for two sisters to have achieved such stardom (Olivia went on to win two Oscars) is pretty amazing.