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[On her troubled relationships with her daughters:] You can acquire enemies. Why give birth to them?

Joan Fontaine

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Joan Fontaine
Age: 96 †
Born: 1917
Born: October 22
Died: 2013
Died: December 15
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Television Actor
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Tōkyō
Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland
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