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In 1940, Joan Fangdon starred in Hitchcock's Butterfly Dream, and her strength, her beauty, and her reservedness made the world begin to know this outstanding actor.
Her slightly shy and restrained, Gu Panshenghui when she saw the male protagonist behaved just right, the corners of her eyes and eyebrows were smiling, and she was playful in her delicacy and shy with tranquility.
The film earned Fonden an Oscar nomination for Best Actress, and since then, she has starred in Hitchcock's films several times, winning an Oscar for her outstanding performance in "Deep Doubts".
Unlike her idyllic and timeless image in the film, the real-life Joan Fangdon always lives with hatred.
In her autobiography in her later years, between the lines, she either hated her sister Olivia or her parents, and even Vivien Leigh hated it, because the other party stole the role she wanted to play, "Scarlett".
In fact, throughout QiongFangdeng's life, she has been trying to prove that she can live well and be very happy.
But too hard, often people think that she is not enjoying life, but competing, in all aspects.
As she said in an interview with the media in 1978:
I got married first, I got the Oscar first, and if I died before Olivia, she would have jumped in anger, because then I had completely defeated her.
Most incredibly, she really did, and in 2013, at the age of 96, she died peacefully at her home in California.
Her sister, Olivia, died in July 2020 at the age of 104.
It is not difficult to imagine that in everything Joan did, she fought to overwhelm her sister, surpassing her sister, and her sister Olivia was no longer her imaginary enemy, but a real enemy.
Did the sisters do this as adults or have they always been like this?
A: It's always been that way.
The reason for this may be found in their growth trajectory.
Joan Fontaine was born in October 1917 in Tokyo, Japan, a year younger than her sister Olivia, whose original name was Beverly de Havilland.
As for why she changed her name, one is because her mother is eccentric, at that time, her sister Olivia was already famous in the show business circle, and Joan was only a small actor, and her mother was afraid that Joan would affect the image of her sister, so she changed her name.
Second, Qiong also disdained to sell her reputation, and she was always strong and did not want to live only under the aura of her sister, so she took the initiative to change her name, but at first she was not called Joan Fontaine, and after changing it several times, she followed her stepfather's surname.
Originally, she and her sister had been living with her parents in Tokyo, but Joan was not in good health and often fell ill, and her parents decided to take the two sisters to live in Southern California.
Joan's father, a lawyer, is decent and rigorous on the surface, but his private life is eroded and messed with flowers and grass, and his mother can't stand it, so she divorces him.
The two sisters lived with their mother. Although the mother is eccentric, she is still dedicated to cultivating her two daughters, and she will do her best to send her two daughters to learn dance and singing, and cultivate them into talents.
The two sisters are very contentious, and the fly in the ointment is that the two sisters have always been incompatible and do not look at each other well.
This discord is different from the fights and quarrels between ordinary siblings, which is a hatred rooted in the blood, because of the lack of fatherly love, and the mother's obvious favoritism towards Olivia, which makes Joan feel uneasy for a while, and it is difficult to reconcile for a lifetime.
The two sisters have regarded each other as enemies since childhood, the sister will cut off the sister's clothes, and the younger sister will "revenge" in her own way.
In the more serious case, Olivia pushed Joan down, causing Joan to fracture. This is an escalation of the conflict between the two as teenagers.
Because of this, her mother had to let Joan live with her biological father for a while, until 1935, when Joan returned again.
Although her mother had remarried before Joan went to her biological father, her stepfather did not seem to like Joan as much as he liked Olivia.
Joan was stingy, irritable and paranoid, slightly violated, like a hedgehog, erected thorns and entered a defensive state.
Outsiders saw that Joan was so nervous and fierce, but they didn't see how much she longed to get the same love as her sister behind her forced disdain.
Since you can't get it, it is better to be humble and begging, so it is better to be self-reliant and self-reliant.
So, very early on, Joan has been battling Olivia.
In her career, Joan's recognition and glory are not inferior to Olivia's.
Although she failed to win the role of Scarlett in "Gone with the Wind", her performance in many other films is also remarkable.
In particular, "Butterfly Dream", which made her popular quickly, "Deep Doubt", which made her famous in one fell swoop, and many other films that laid the foundation for her unshakable position in Hollywood.
The two sisters are fighting and fighting in their careers, and they show that you chase after me, see who wins more awards, and see who becomes famous early.
Therefore, the competition between the two sisters has contributed to the two sisters' careers to a certain extent, and Joan also said in her autobiography: Most of the motivation for my achievements today with Olivia comes from the competition between the sisters, and if there is no such thing, the two of us may end up just being housewives.
If you have not enjoyed family affection, then enjoy the glory you have bought through your own efforts.
However, the relationship between the two people also eased up, when Olivia was sick, Joan went to take care of her, Olivia gave birth to a child, and Joan and her mother also flew to France to visit.
At the end, he also gave Olivia, who was living in difficulty at that time, a sum of money to help her tide over the current difficulties, and also sincerely suggested that her sister come back and make film and television dramas to improve her economic embarrassment.
It's just that this kind of harmonious and warm time is too little, and a little disagreement can lead to the relationship between two people deteriorating again.
Best known for the fact that when Joan won the Oscar for Little Golden Man, she coldly refused Olivia's polite hug, and then Olivia hit Back joan in the same way.
On another level, isn't this an alternative way for the two sisters to communicate?
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Unable to get love from her parents and stepfather in childhood, Joan tries to find too much missing love from her lover.
But unfortunately, 4 marriages have brought her far more pain than happiness.
The first marriage took place when she was 22 years old, and she and her fiancé had already planned a time and place to get married, and as a result, the night before the wedding, the fiancé ran away from the marriage.
At that time, Qiong did not know that the twisted melon was not sweet, blindly wanted to save each other, thinking that after marriage, the other party would change his mind and would re-examine the marriage relationship.
Therefore, at Joan's insistence and request, the fiancé agreed to get married, and as a result, after marriage, he could not wait for the prodigal son to turn back, but what he waited for was the other party's domestic violence.
The first marriage thus came to an end after exhausting Joan's wishful thinking, when Joan was 28 years old.
Joan has a good look and a career, and if the people who want to marry her line up, they will be a hundred meters away. After Joan's divorce, there were men who came to offer their hospitality, and during that time Joan was ill for a while, and a studio director named William Dozier often visited her, which made Joan very moved.
Not long after, William proposed to her, and Joan agreed with almost no hesitation, thinking that she had met a shoulder that she could rely on for life.
Knowing that fate was tricking her, she was exposed that her husband was a husband, that is, William also had a wife who was not divorced.
But at that time, Joan was already pregnant, in a dilemma, and finally chose to forgive, she did not want her daughter to be like herself, she had lost her father's love since she was a child, and did not have a complete home.
But how can a man who has committed major acts of deception from the beginning be able to rely on a harmonious and happy home?
As a result, the marriage lasted only five years, and it ended sloppily.
Later, Joan also had two unsatisfactory marriages, dog blood and disappointment, which made her discouraged from marriage and did not dare to move forward.
With the end of her fourth marriage, Joan never wanted to go into married life again.
In this way, from the age of 52, she lived alone for 44 years.
Career can be fought for by yourself, but the matter of feelings is really not something that can be obtained by your own efforts.
What makes Joan sadder than marriage is that the relationship with her daughter is very stiff.
Joan, who has never been loved, has never learned how to love people, even the closest people.
It's all sad. Not only Joan's sorrow, but also the sorrow of those who miserly gave her love, the people she once trusted the most.
The stronger and more independent, in fact, the more it needs to be appeased and belonging.
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After a lifetime of fighting, Joan may not be able to let go in the end, she has been waiting, waiting for her parents, waiting for her sister, waiting for her stepfather, waiting for their love and understanding, waiting for their embrace, waiting for her soul to be laid.
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