Chinese audiences know Joan Fontaine from "Butterfly Dream", she has an incomparably idyllic, pitiful face, in the beauty of Hollywood's golden age, her beauty is not stunning or ostentatious, and exudes a unique silent sadness in the film.
But Joan Fonden's autobiography in his later years shows the opposite side of his screen image, and the words are full of "hate", hate for mothers, hate for stepfathers, hate for men, hate for Vivien Leigh...
And, of course, her sister, Olivia de Havilland, who has been in an endless race since birth: who gets popular first, who wins oscars first, who gets married and has children first, who goes first...
Joan Fontaine
Joan Fontaine was born on October 22, 1917 in Tokyo, Japan, and was originally named Joan Bivera de Havilland. Her sister, Olivia de Havilland, was a year older than her.
His parents were both British, his father was a university professor, and his family is said to have British royal blood.
Her mother had always dreamed of becoming a brilliant actor on the stage, and gave up her career for the sake of her family, so she pinned her dream of stardom on Joan and her sister Olivia, and from an early age she intentionally cultivated their sense of competition.
The two sisters were gifted and did not live up to their mother's expectations, and after winning Oscars many years later, they became the only sister actresses in the history of cinema.
Childhood Joan Fontaine
Their father cheated. In 1919, the parents divorced, and the mother took her two daughters to marry the department store manager, Georges Fonden. The stepfather arranged a strict educational curriculum for the sisters, and the sisters did not have much joy to speak of.
The clever and sleek Olivia soon gained the favor of her stepfather, and the rebellious Joan fell behind, was not welcomed by her stepfather, and was often coldly opposed. Joan thus develops a paranoid and suspicious personality.
Joan and her sister Olivia have planted the seeds of competition and even mutual contempt since childhood, no one obeys the other, and the size conflicts are continuous.
At the age of 16, because of a small matter, the sisters turned their faces, and Olivia brute forced her sister's collarbone. Her mother favored Olivia, so Joan followed her to visit her biological father back to Japan, where she completed her studies.
In 1935, Joan returned to the United States and became interested in theater, joining a small theater troupe.
At that time, her sister Olivia had become a well-known actress in Hollywood, and her mother did not want her to borrow her sister's light and did not allow her to enter the show business with the surname of "de Havilland", and Joan followed her stepfather's surname and changed her name to Joan Fontaine.
Raiden Hua saw the potential of Joan Fontaine and intended to make her popular, calling her a "rising star on the screen of Raiden Hua". Raiden made Joan the heroine of Fred Astaire's song and dance films, but Joan did not become popular, because Fred Astaire's best partner has always been the reddish Ginger Rogers, and Joan Fontaine has no advantage in the field of song and dance films.
She played a painless role in MGM and Raidenware films, and in the 1939 "Gone with the Wind" casting, Joan Fonten was Melanie's candidate, but she was more interested in Scarlett, pushed Melanie away, and recommended her sister Olivia to the director.
Olivia was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Melanie.
Olivia, Gone with the Wind, Melanie
Although Joan lost to Vivien Leigh in her competition for Scarlett, she met David Selznick, the producer of Gone with the Wind. Joan spoke with David Selznick about the novel Rebecca, which Joan thought would be a good fit for a film. It happened that Selznick bought the filming rights to the book, and he asked Joan if he would like to play the heroine of Rebecca.
Joan is a little lacking in confidence, appearing to be restrained and uneasy, Selznick looked at it, isn't this look exactly what the heroine of the film has? So he hired her on the spot to star in the movie "Butterfly Dream" adapted from the novel "Rebecca".
Butterfly Dream
But "Butterfly Dream" actor Lawrence Oliver recommended his girlfriend Leigh Leigh to Selznick and director Hitchcock to play the female lead, on the grounds that Vivien Leigh was famous worldwide with "Gone with the Wind", which was a more secure choice in terms of fame and acting skills.
Lawrence Oliver wanted to make love right, and Hitchcock responded humorously: "Ms. Leigh Vivien Leigh's hair is brown, and I need a blonde lady to play this role." ”
Olivia Vivien Leigh
In 1940, Joan Fontaine played the heroine in Hitchcock's Hollywood debut Butterfly Dream, where she was always afraid of doing something wrong on set, like a frightened fawn, and Hitchcock also took advantage of her personality traits, deliberately speaking coldly to her, sometimes ignoring her. This makes Joan Fonden nervous the whole time, which is more in line with the needs of the role.
There's a crying scene in the film where Joan Fondon can't cry out, and after filming one after another, Hitchcock gets angry and asks her how she can cry like a thing. Joan said casually, "Unless you give me a slap." "
Hitchcock didn't hesitate to give her a slap, and Joan immediately burst into tears.
Joan Fonden played the heroine who was haunted by the nightmares of rebecca, the former hostess of the manor, and won the first Oscar nomination for Best Actress, but lost to Ginger Rogers.
The following year, she starred again in Hitchcock's film "Deep Doubt", successfully playing the heroine with paranoia about being killed, and was nominated for an Oscar again. At the same time, the sister Olivia also won the film queen nomination of the year with "Good Night", and the sisters in this PK, Joan defeated her sister to win the Oscar crown.
Olivia stepped forward to congratulate her sister on winning the award, but Joan Fonden ignored her, and rumors of sister discord spread.
Joan said in her memoirs: "I thought Olivia across the table would immediately pounce on me and grab my hair, and I provoked her again. ”
Joan won an Oscar
Temporarily behind Olivia rose to catch up, and after winning the Oscar for "Wind And Flow Seeds" 5 years later, Olivia walked off the stage with the little golden man in her arms, and Joan politely stepped forward to congratulate her, but Olivia avoided with a shameful arrogance and humiliated her sister in the same way.
3 years later, after Olivia won the Oscar again with "Heiress", she finally surpassed her sister in numbers, and this time Joan did not ask herself to be bored to congratulate herself.
Olivia with 2 little golden men
The 1940s were the heyday of Joan Fontaine's acting career. She has filmed "Jane Eyre", "A Letter from a Strange Woman", "Di Xian Grievance", "Ten Days Talk" and other masterpieces, and is good at playing shy, restrained, shy, suspicious female characters, and her performance style is idyllic and timeless.
In 1943, Jane Eyre, starring Joan Fontaine and Orson Wells, was regarded as the best of all adaptations.
In "Jane Eyre", Joan perfectly portrayed the role of Jane Eyre, gentle but stubborn, conveying a strong female independent spirit, the only drawback is that it is beautiful.
"Jane Eyre"
In 1944, Joan was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for the third time for The Eternal Maiden.
In 1948, Joan played the obsessive woman who spent the last moment of her life to love a talented musician in "Letter from a Strange Woman", from a teenage girl to a mature woman in her 30s, playing just right.
In 2004, Xu Jinglei's remake of the Chinese version of "Letter from a Strange Woman" was also quite poignant.
"Letter from a Strange Woman"
After entering the 1950s and 1960s, Joan Fontaine's work gradually decreased, leaving no impressive roles, only a few films such as "Sailing Under the Sea", "The Witch", and "Gentle Night".
After middle age, Joan Fontaine gradually faded from the film business, switching to television shooting, and occasionally appearing on Broadway. She developed a variety of hobbies such as cooking, golf, fishing, and a pilot's license, winning a hot air balloon competition in the Netherlands.
In the late autumn of 1981, Joan Fontaine, with friendly feelings for the Chinese people, made a special visit to China.
By the 1990s, Joan Fontaine, who had entered her later years, had become a master of investment, earning well in the cattle industry, real estate and oil.
Joan Fontaine had a total of 4 marriages, each of which brought her pain.
In 1939, Joan married the British actor Brian Ayhen, and on the night before the decision to hold the wedding, Brian Ayhen suddenly informed her and decided not to marry her.
For young girl Joan Fonden, it was like a thunderbolt on a sunny day. Despite some twists and turns, the wedding took place the next day, but after the marriage her husband was rude and rude to her, Joan fell into the abyss of pain, and the two divorced in 1945.
Mother and sister attend Joan's wedding
Later, Joan was hospitalized due to illness, and William Dozier, the director of Raidenhua Studios, often visited her, and the lonely Joan was touched, she accepted William's courtship, and married William in 1946.
However, on Joan Fonden's second honeymoon, she received an anonymous phone call revealing that William had committed bigamy.
Joan's heart is broken, but the wood is in a boat, and in 1948 she gave birth to her daughter Deborah. Their married lives were not happy, and they divorced in 1951.
After William and Joan divorced, in order to compete for custody of their daughter, he often hired private detectives and bribed Joan's servants to follow and stalk her.
Once, a big man broke into Joan's house in an attempt to catch the adulteress, and when he found out that Joan was talking to her dog, he fled in panic.
Joan Fonden sued the court for this, but her servant testified without telling the truth, and the case that could have been won was lost.
Joan married producer Collier Young in 1952 and divorced in 1961; with lawyer and writer Alfred Wright in 1964 and divorced in 1969.
Joan with her third husband, Collier
After 1969, Joan Fontaine never married again. Joan, who has experienced the ups and downs of life, issued this exclamation:
"I think if I were a man, the path of life would be much more open. A woman's way of protecting herself must be different from that of a man, must follow different moral codes, and must adopt a different attitude towards problems than men, which is the fate of a woman. ”
Joan and Olivia's mother lived to be 89 years old, her father lived to be 96 years old, and the sisters inherited their parents' longevity genes, lived as living fossils of Hollywood, and competed for nearly a hundred years, and their relationship over the years has become an enduring topic.
Olivia had a relationship with Hollywood playboy Howard Hughes, and Hughes was in love with almost every beautiful woman of the time. Before Joan Fontaine married Brian Eigen, Howard Hughes invited Joan to a dance and advised her not to marry, saying that he would marry her.
Joan told her sister about it, and Olivia broke up with Hughes in a fit of rage, and her relationship with her sister fell to a freezing point.
Olivia and Joan
For decades, Joan's relationship with her sister had its ups and downs, up and down.
In early 1957, Joan and her mother flew to France to visit Olivia and her newborn niece.
In 1969, Joan came to Paris to give Olivia a large sum of money to the financially struggling, and suggested that she take over the film and television drama to improve the economic situation.
The sisters are said to have finally broken up in 1975 when their mother died, when Joan was far away from performing abroad, but the sister did not tell her mother that she was seriously ill, and Joan did not attend her mother's funeral.
There is also a theory that Joan wanted Olivia to postpone the funeral until she could finish the show, but Olivia refused, holding her mother's funeral before her sister returned.
Olivia claimed that she had told her sister, but Joan said that she was too busy to come.
Outsiders do not know more hidden feelings about this matter, and no one can say who is right and who is wrong. Since then Joan has lived in the United States, and Olivia has lived in France, and has not interacted with each other.
Mother Joan Olivia
In 1978, at the 50th anniversary of the Oscars, the sisters sat in the farthest distance of the same row, neither looking at each other.
At the 60th anniversary celebration of the Oscars in 1988, the organizing committee accidentally booked them a room adjacent to the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills, and Joan quickly changed rooms to avoid narrow roads.
At the 75th Academy Awards in 2003, Joan heard that Olivia was not attending and offered to attend. When Olivia learned of this, she immediately changed her mind and said that she wanted to participate, and finally Olivia received a standing ovation from the audience, including President George W. Bush, on the stage, while Joan nestled at home.
In an interview with a famous Hollywood magazine, Joan Fontaine said: "I got the Oscar nomination before her (Olivia), won the award before her, got married before her, I don't know if I will die before her." ”
On December 15, 2013, the famous Hollywood film star Joan Fontaine died at home at the age of 96. In the matter of death, she also refused to lag behind her sister.
When Olivia learns of her sister's death, her first response is "Quitter" (meaning coward).
No matter what conflicts the sisters have had, they are already passing through the clouds. In 2017, 101-year-old Olivia de Havilland took the creator of the American drama "Old Enemy" to court, believing that "Old Enemy" misrepresented her relationship with her sister Joan Fontaine, which described her as calling her sister a "bitch sister" at the Oscars, which she believed had seriously damaged her sister Joan Fonten's reputation.
Centenarian Olivia
Joan Fontaine should be relieved that she has a spirit in heaven, after all, blood is thicker than water. In fact, it is the motivation of competition that makes the sisters so good, as Joan said in her autobiography:
"Olivia and I are accomplished people, and our motivation can be said to be the competition between sisters that still exists today, without which we would not have been so competitive, and perhaps we would be satisfied as a housewife or a school teacher." 」
Olivia de Havilland, 104, is already the longest-lived actor yet, and the rest of the cast of Gone with the Wind has been dead for decades, and her vitality is still exuberant, and she was still pedaling last year at the age of 103, which is the last legend in Hollywood.
Olivia, 103, is pedaling
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