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Jul 27, 2020 · Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine were born 15 months apart and both found success as actresses in Hollywood's Golden Age. But instead of bringing them together, these similarities...
Aug 22, 2022 · Silver screen star and two-time Oscar winner Olivia de Havilland, who died in July 2020 at the age of 104, had a lifelong rivalry with her sister, actress Joan Fontaine (who died in 2013).
Apr 9, 2024 · Sister, Sister: Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine’s Lifelong Feud. The Oscar-winning siblings endured one of Hollywood’s most riveting rivalries, as recounted in each of their memoirs. By...
Jul 27, 2020 · Olivia de Havilland was celebrated for her role in “Gone With the Wind” — but when it came to the relationship she had with her sister, actress Joan Fontaine, she was also gone with the kin.
Jul 6, 2016 · For most of her career, two-time Academy Award winner Olivia de Havilland was embroiled in a rivalrous feud with younger sister Joan Fontaine.
Jan 24, 2022 · Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine had long and illustrious careers — both won Oscars, de Havilland for "To Each His Own" and "The Heiress," Fontaine for "Suspicion" (via the Academy Awards Database) — but they would always compare themselves to each other, even after the younger sister, Joan, took the last name "Fontaine" instead of her ...
Fontaine and her elder sister, Olivia de Havilland, are the only siblings to have won lead acting Academy Awards. Olivia was the first to become an actress; when Fontaine tried to follow her lead, their mother, who favored Olivia, refused to let Joan use the family name. [how?] Subsequently, Fontaine had to invent a name, taking first Joan Burfield
