Joan Fonden is a typical "Hitchcock girl", that is, a big blonde beauty, her performances in classic films such as "Butterfly Dream", "Deep Doubt", "Jane Eyre" and so on make many people unforgettable, and in addition to film achievements, for this Oscar queen, the most mentioned is her good sister's kindness and resentment...
Joan Fonden was born into a British family in Tokyo, Japan, and she was born with anemia and measles, so her mother took her and her sister to live in southern California, and then her parents divorced and she settled in the United States.
Since Joan Fontaine and her sister Olivier Desé Havran are only one year apart, the sisters always love to compare, from IQ to beauty to favor, while their mother prefers her sister Olivia, as a younger sister Joan Fontaine is very jealous and always has friction with her sister.
Later, Joan Fonden's sister became an actress, not to be outdone, she also followed in her sister's footsteps to learn acting, but at that time her sister was already famous, and her mother was afraid that it would affect her sister's career, and she was not allowed to use the same surname as her sister.
Joan Fontaine has also once again opened the road of "competing for favors" with her sister, who compares with each other who talks to big producers first, who becomes popular first, who wins Oscars first, and who gets married and has children first. (Pictured is Joan Fontaine and her sister Olivia Dei Hafran)
In 1939, at the age of 22, Fontaine and Brian Achen, a British actor 15 years her senior, became engaged. At that time, her sister's feelings had not yet settled.
In 1941, Joan Fonden starred in the famous director Hitchcock's "Deep Doubts", with which she beat her sister who was also nominated and won the Academy Award for Best Actress. But when she refused her sister's congratulations, Olivia was very angry and embarrassed, and Olivia later humiliated her sister in the same way when she won the award.
Joan Fontaine has detailed the sisters' struggles in her published autobiography, attributing their years of feud to marrying and winning awards earlier than their sisters.
The struggle between the two sisters became an open topic in the entertainment industry at that time, and the trigger for their old and dead was that when their mother died, Joan Fontaine did not receive a funeral invitation, so she was full of resentment towards her sister, and the two officially broke up, and the attendance at the event was only "with you without me".
In 2013, when Joan Fontaine died at the age of 96, her sister Olivia said she was "shocked and saddened" by her sister's death, and the sisters' feud came to an end.