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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.
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.
Jul 6, 2016 · Olivia de Havilland, 100, Opens Up About Her Famous Feud with Late Sister Joan Fontaine. Olivia de Havilland tells PEOPLE her late sister Joan Fontaine [had] an astigmatism in...
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
Apr 29, 2016 · By Ellen Graham. Joan Fontaine and Olivia de Havilland. ‘I wasn’t American at all,” Olivia says, getting right down to deconstructing the myth of her as the girl next door from Saratoga...
Jul 26, 2020 · Olivia, the eldest by 15 months, was beautiful, “bouncy, and plump,” according to a Life magazine profile of the sister in 1942. Joan was “a scrubby, scraggly haired little girl.”. Olivia ...
Dec 17, 2013 · New Details About the Joan Fontaine-Olivia de Havilland Feud Revealed. THR awards analyst Scott Feinberg's recent interviews with the sisters shed new light on their complicated relationship. By ...
