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Joan Fontaine

1917 to 2013 4 documented presences 4 places

Quo Fuit places 4 dated presences for Joan Fontaine across 4 places, from 1917 to 1994. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.

Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland (October 22, 1917 – December 15, 2013), known professionally as Joan Fontaine, was a British-American actress best known for her roles in Hollywood films during the Golden Age of Hollywood.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Joan Fontaine was documented, and when

22 October 1917exact date
Tokyo Cityattested “Joan de Beauvoir deHavilland was born on October 22, 1917, in Tokyo City, in the then Empire of Japan, to English parents.” source: Wikipedia: Joan Fontaine
22 October 1917exact date
Tokyoattested “Joan de Beauvoir deHavilland was born on October 22, 1917, in Tokyo City, in the then Empire of Japan, to English parents.” source: Wikipedia: Joan Fontaine
1952 to 1961period
New Yorkattested “After Fontaine's separation from her husband in 1952, deHavilland went to her apartment in New York often, and at least once they spent Christmas together there, in 1961.” source: Wikipedia: Joan Fontaine
1994year
Carmel Highlands, Californiaattested “Also, Rosalind Russell once said, 'Always escape the mother parts.' And I've avoided them." Fontaine's last role for television was in the 1994 TV film Good King Wenceslas, after which she retired to her estate, Villa Fontana, in Carmel…” source: Wikipedia: Joan Fontaine

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Places Joan Fontaine is documented in

New York1 presence · 1952Tokyo1 presence · 1917
Carmel Highlands, California1 presence · 1994
Tokyo City1 presence · 1917

Other places tied to Joan Fontaine in the record

In each of these, a source puts Joan Fontaine and the place in the same dated sentence without stating that Joan Fontaine was there. They are kept apart from the timeline above for exactly that reason: a mention is not a presence, and Quo Fuit does not quietly promote one into the other.

1935year
Japanmentioned “There she attended the American School in Japan, graduating in 1935.” source: Wikipedia: Joan Fontaine
April 1945month
Del Monte, Californiamentioned “John's Chapel in Del Monte, California; they divorced in April 1945.” source: Wikipedia: Joan Fontaine
1953year
Tangiermentioned “She was reunited with Jourdan in Decameron Nights (1953) then went to Paramount for the low-budget Flight to Tangier (1953) with Jack Palance.” source: Wikipedia: Joan Fontaine
1967year
Chicagomentioned “In 1967, she appeared in Dial M for Murder in Chicago.” source: Wikipedia: Joan Fontaine
1969year
Parismentioned “Fontaine also visited deHavilland in Paris in 1969.” source: Wikipedia: Joan Fontaine
1975year
Hollywoodmentioned “She returned to Hollywood for the first time in 15 years in 1975 to appear in an episode of Cannon especially written for her.” source: Wikipedia: Joan Fontaine
1982year
Berlinmentioned “In 1982, she traveled to Berlin, Germany, and served as a jury president for the Berlin International Film Festival.” source: Wikipedia: Joan Fontaine

Documented at the same place, the same year

Yasunari KawabataTokyo · 1917Zhou EnlaiJapan · 1917Alexander KolchakJapan · 1917John DeweyNew York · 1952Shimon PeresNew York · 1952David RockefellerNew York · 1952Lee Harvey OswaldNew York · 1952Trygve LieNew York · 1952Truman CapoteNew York · 1952Jimmy HoffaNew York · 1952Karen HorneyNew York · 1952Barbara Bel GeddesNew York · 1952

Two people documented in the same place in the same year is a correlation, not a meeting. Quo Fuit will never say they met without a source that says so.

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Sources

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