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The same day we lost Peter O'Toole, we also lost Joan Fontaine, and she absolutely deserves to remembered here, too. In case you're not sure who she was, read here, and I'm sure you'll remember her, if you like Hollywood classics (or if you were around when the movies were new! ):
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Joan Fontaine, the coolly beautiful 1940s actress who won an Academy Award for her role in Alfred Hitchcock's "Suspicion" and who became almost as well-known for her lifelong feud with her famous older sister, Olivia de Havilland, died Sunday. She was 96.
Fontaine died of natural causes at her home in Carmel, said her assistant, Susan Pfeiffer.
In addition to winning an Academy Award as best actress for "Suspicion," Fontaine was also nominated as best actress for her role in Hitchcock's "Rebecca" (1940) and, three years later, for Edmund Goulding's "The Constant Nymph."
Yes, she certainly seems to have led an interesting life. Just the basic info on her lifetime made me want to search out a good biography of her. I'd love to know more about the "feud" ... I always assumed (or liked to assume) that it was Olivia de Haviland's fault. Didn't like her as much, and she seemed like she could be a bit mean-spirited. I'd love to know if that's true.
Yes, she certainly seems to have led an interesting life. Just the basic info on her lifetime made me want to search out a good biography of her. I'd love to know more about the "feud" ... I always assumed (or liked to assume) that it was Olivia de Haviland's fault. Didn't like her as much, and she seemed like she could be a bit mean-spirited. I'd love to know if that's true.
If you read up about it all, it seems like it was both their faults. Olivia seemed to have picked on Joan a lot when they were younger, but Joan was the one who had a chip on her shoulder about it. Then all we know was a bunch of "she said, she said" stuff.
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