Joan Fontaine RIP

http://www.seraphicpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/joan-fontaine-rebecca.jpg

A shame she and O'Toole never made a film

Olivia Victorious

“I was married before her, I had the first child, I got the first Oscar. If I die before her, she’ll hate me for that as well.”

somewhat recent photo of her and her dogs in carmel -

http://highlighthollywood.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/JoanFontaine-today.jpg

ahhhh RIP. was she still not talking to olivia

yeah and vice versa. from what i can tell it seems like alot of the enmity originated from olivia (like during childhood even, olivia having catty stuff about joan put in the yearbook, etc) and took some really beyond the pale forms (olivia tried to block her from attending their mother's funeral). joan had a few cutting remarks over the years as well but the real hate seemed to come from olivia's end. joan was offered miss melanie in gwtw and passed on it but suggested they cast her sister and apparently olivia was pissed they offered it to joan first. note though i grew up in georgia when the yearly multinight network screening of gwtw was damn near a state holiday and always hated miss melanie so i might have some bias here. joan fontaine ended up making some real hollywood hack fare but god in the forties she was something else both as an actress and a beauty. maybe not on the 'this is the apex of beauty our species is capable of' that rita hayworth and ingrid bergman had but her beauty somehow seems more contemporary than the other golden age hollywood starlets. i liked this world better w/ her in it.

but her beauty somehow seems more contemporary than the other golden age hollywood starlets

otm

great post

I don't think either was a great actress but with Fontaine in particular her three great roles demanded the best of her.

RIP Unknown Woman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKc7wRLA-Z8

yup, i posted that to facebooks.

that movie is so amazing. it just stabs you in the heart over and over and over.

RIP. I also like The Witches, a Hammer film from 1966 with a screenplay by Nigel Kneale.

RIP Joanie

I didn't know this:

She had courage and intelligence in her own life. I would like people to remember, when paying tribute to Letter From an Unknown Woman, that we have that great movie because Joan Fontaine put its elements together. She chose the Stefan Zweig story because, she said, she wanted something that would appeal to women. It was produced by her joint venture, Rampart Productions, which she ran with her husband at the time, William Dozier, and released through Universal. She was instrumental in getting Max Ophuls to direct.

http://selfstyledsiren.blogspot.de/2013/12/in-memoriam-joan-fontaine-1917-2013.html

anyone see Jane Eyre? It's one bizarre adaptation. None of the actors seem to be listening to each other, and Welles looks...odd (and not for the first or last time).

David Thomson's review of the Letter From an Unknown Woman reprint. The movie's really about Louis Jourdan, he sez. I don't agree with his dismissal of Fontaine.

The chief problem now in watching the film is how Fontaine's heroine has dated. Her infatuation with Stefan is not just for him but for the whole scheme of infatuation. Neither does it have any back-up in a portrait of Lisa that knows her neurotic problems, her unduly sheltered life or her vibrant sense of unreality. There may have been women as infatuated in Vienna in 1900, in the world of 1948, or in 2010. That doesn't help the way in which the character now comes across as feeble or empty-headed. She is prepared to ­surrender her imagination to Stefan now in ways that strike us as archaic and ­disastrous. Surely the woman at the end has seen through his masquerade. Surely she has more on her mind than to be his adoring victim.

Fontaine was widely praised for her performance at the time – for the ease with which she goes from the kid to a sophisticated woman. But the performance looks posed and mannered now, as if a mother was absolutely confident that she played with her young son, and that he swallowed her idealised but destructive version of what love is. The mother and son do not come out of the experience well – to put it mildly. And in part, that's the foolish ­dictate of melodrama. The whole thing needs a different ending, one in which the son might see the mother's stupid error.

She's more of a simp in Suspicion. Her masochism in LFAUW works because Ophuls knew how to frame it, to foil it.

wow that is... a horrible misreading. (thomson's i mean.)

Olivia is "shocked and saddened"!

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/olivia-de-havilland-mourns-joan-666101

Olivia's publicist is "shocked and saddened"!

fixed

Jacob Jones
• 11 hours ago

We all have experience with this.. Well, at least most of us.. There were 6 children in my family, and there's one dead, one dying, one I'd walk through fire for, and another I will never speak to again... Oh, and one that's just "meh".. lol.. That's just how it is, I suppose?..

Danielle Jacob Jones
• 5 hours ago

If you had a thief of a brother like mine that put there own mom in her grave and stold from them and wouldn't pay there nursing home bill and she came to live with me. You would not talk or want to or trust your own brother. Hes a devil!! Then I could understand that. I have forgiven but chose not to be around him.

More feud news you can use!

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/joan-fontaine-olivia-de-havilland-666087

o man great story

http://jennymcphee.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/joanoliviaoscars3.jpg

As editor of their high school newspaper, Olivia apparently published a fake will: "I bequeath to my sister the ability to win boys' hearts, which she does not have at present."

thought this was a really good idea for a list:

http://thefilmexperience.net/blog/2013/12/16/100-of-the-oldest-living-screen-stars-of-note.html?fb_action_ids=10201973337948596&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=other_multiline&action_object_map=[404754562960711]&action_type_map=[%22og.likes%22]&action_ref_map

sorry i fucked that up i am almost old enough to be on that list