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Early life. By birth, Olivia was a member of the de Havilland family, which belonged to landed gentry that originated from mainland Normandy. Her mother, Lilian Fontaine (née Ruse; 1886–1975), was educated at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and became a stage actress. Lilian also sang with the Master of the King's Music, Sir Walter Parratt, and toured the United Kingdom with the ...
16 de dic. de 2013 · Joan Fontaine, the patrician blond actress who rose to stardom as a haunted second wife in the Alfred Hitchcock film “Rebecca” in 1940 and won an Academy Award for her portrayal of a terrified ...
22 de dic. de 2013 · Joan Fontaine y Olivia de Havilland, enemigas más allá de la muerte. “Yo me casé primero, gané el Oscar antes que Olivia y, si muero antes que ella, seguramente se indignará porque le he ...
2 de dic. de 2010 · In this clip from 1979, Joan Fontaine explains why she stopped speaking to her sister, Olivia de Havilland. Fontaine and de Havilland are the only set of sib...
17 de dic. de 2013 · With her delicate features and high cheekbones, Joan Fontaine became famous when she played the withdrawn young lady who becomes the second Mrs De Winter in Alfred Hitchcock's masterly version of ...
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. As LIFE put it in a 1942 profile titled “Sister Act”: “There is no ...
16 de dic. de 2013 · CARMEL, California (AP) — Academy Award-winning actress Joan Fontaine, who found stardom playing naive wives in Alfred Hitchcock's "Suspicion" and "Rebecca" and also was featured in films by Billy Wilder, Fritz Lang and Nicholas Ray, died Sunday. She was 96. Fontaine, the sister of fellow Oscar winner Olivia de Havilland, died in her sleep in her Carmel, California, home Sunday morning, said ...
