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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.
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. Now, the woman who celebrated her 100th...
De Havilland was nominated for Hold Back the Dawn and Fontaine for Suspicion. The older sister, who famously played Melanie Hamilton in Gone With the Wind , was known for playing “pretty and charming, naïve,” and the younger for roles that were “moody, intuitive and emotional.”
Dec 17, 2013 · Fontaine, 96, died in her sleep Sunday at her home in Carmel, Calif. The 97-year-old de Havilland, perhaps best known as Melanie in "Gone With the Wind," is a longtime resident of Paris and...
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 .
Jan 24, 2022 · By Elizabeth Maxham / Jan. 24, 2022 11:22 am EST. It's one of the most legendary rivalries in Hollywood: two sisters, born 15 months apart, who began tormenting each other almost from the time they could talk, according to Entertainment Weekly. Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine had long and illustrious careers — both won Oscars, de ...
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...
