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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...
Apr 9, 2024 · “I regret that I remember not one act of kindness from Olivia all through my childhood,” movie star Joan Fontaine once said of her equally famous older sister, Olivia de Havilland. De...
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).
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....
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.
Olivia's younger sister Joan (Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland)—later known as actress Joan Fontaine—was born 15 months later, on October 22, 1917. Both sisters became British subjects automatically by birthright.
Apr 2, 2014 · She and her sister, Joan Fontaine, had reportedly not spoken to each other since their mother's death in the 1970s. After Fontaine's death in 2013, de Havilland issued the following statement:...
For three quarters of a century, the supposed feud between sisters Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine was the stuff of tabloid dreams. Only 15 months apart, the sisters pursued the same career, competed for the same Oscars and even cozied up to some of the same men.
Apr 10, 2015 · April 10, 2015 8:00 AM EDT. F or three quarters of a century, the supposed feud between sisters Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine was the stuff of tabloid dreams. Only 15 months apart,...
Jul 1, 2016 · In a rare interview with The Associated Press, one of the last living remnants of Hollywood’s Golden Age has disclosed her true feelings about her late sister Joan Fontaine, revealing that she calls her “Dragon Lady.”
