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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. [how?] Subsequently, Fontaine had to invent a name, taking first Joan Burfield
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...
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...
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 29, 2016 · 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, California, in the ...
Jul 26, 2020 · Olivia and Joan were born in Japan to British parents and grew up in California, where the family broke up, the father remarried, and the girls soon found themselves under the...
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 birt...
