Fontaine became famous for her role of Mrs. de Winter in Alfred Hitchcock's "Rebecca" (1940), for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress in a Leading Role. The following year, Fontaine won the Oscar for Best Actress in a Leading Role in "Suspicion" which made her the only person ever to receive an Oscar in an Alfred Hitchcock movie. Alongside Orson Welles, Fontaine starred as Jane Eyre in the film adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel of the same name (1943). The s