"estranged following the incident. While promoting her autobiography in 1978, Fontaine addressed the issue, stating, ""Until my adopted daughter goes back to see her parents, she's not welcome. I promised her parents. I do not forgive somebody who makes me break my word."" Fontaine and her sister, Olivia deHavilland, are the only set of siblings to have won lead acting Academy Awards. Olivia was the first to become an actress; when Fontaine tried to follow her lead, their mother, who allegedly favored Olivia, refused to let Joan use the family name. Subsequently, Fontaine had to invent a name, taking first"
"Joan Burfield, and later Joan Fontaine. Biographer Charles Higham records that the sisters had an uneasy relationship from early childhood, when Olivia would rip up the clothes Joan had to wear as hand-me-downs, forcing Joan to sew them back together. A large part of the friction between the sisters allegedly stemmed from Fontaine's belief that Olivia was their mother's favorite child. De Havilland and Fontaine were both nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1942. Fontaine won for her role in Alfred Hitchcock's ""Suspicion"" over deHavilland's performance in ""Hold Back the Dawn"". Higham states that Fontaine ""felt guilty"
"she continued to act until her last performance in 1994. Having won an Academy Award for her role in ""Suspicion"", Fontaine is the only actor to have won an Academy Award for acting in a Hitchcock film. Furthermore, she and her sister remain the only siblings to have won major acting Academy Awards. Joan de Beauvoir deHavilland was born on 22 October 1917, in Tokyo, Japan, to English parents. Her father, Walter de Havilland (1872–1968), was educated at the University of Cambridge and served as an English professor at the Imperial University in Tokyo before becoming a patent attorney. Her"
"as actress Joan Fontainewas born fifteen months later, on October 22, 1917. Both sisters became citizens of the United Kingdom automatically by birthright. In February 1919, Lilian persuaded her husband to take the family back to England to a climate better suited for their ailing daughters. They sailed aboard the SS ""Siberia Maru"" to San Francisco, where the family stopped to treat Olivia's tonsillitis. After Joan developed pneumonia, Lilian decided to remain with her daughters in California, where they eventually settled in the village of Saratoga, south of San Francisco. Her father abandoned the family and returned to his Japanese"
"encouraged them to pursue acting careers. Fontaine coached drama students when she lived in Saratoga, California, and she produced plays in a garden theater that later was named for her. After both of her daughters reached film stardom, Fontaine returned to acting with a notable role in Billy Wilder's drama ""The Lost Weekend"" (1945) as the mother of Jane Wyman's character. She also played supporting roles in two films with her daughter Joan, ""Ivy"" (1947) and ""The Bigamist"" (1953) and made a few television appearances during the 1950s. From 1948 to 1958, Fontaine taught and acting class that developed into"
"Anne Fontaine Anne Fontaine (born Anne-Fontaine Sibertin-Blanc; 15 July 1959) is a film director, screenwriter, and former actress. She lives and works in France. Born Anne-Fontaine Sibertin-Blanc in Luxembourg, sister of actor Jean-Chrétien Sibertin-Blanc, she went as a young child to live in Lisbon, where her father, Antoine Sibertin-Blanc, is a music professor and cathedral organist. In adolescence she moved to Paris and trained in dance with Joseph Russillo while continuing her academic education, including philosophy. Her husband is Philippe Carcassonne, the film producer, and they have an adopted son, Tienne, who was born in Cambodia. While still dancing, she"
"Paris in 1969. The sisters reportedly did not completely stop speaking to each other until 1975, after their mother's funeral, to which Joan, who was out of the country, was not invited. Both sisters largely refused to comment publicly about their relationship. In a 1978 interview, however, Fontaine said of the sibling rivalry, ""I married first, won the Oscar before Olivia did, and if I die first, she'll undoubtedly be livid because I beat her to it!"" The following year, in a 1979 interview, Fontaine claimed the reason her sister and she stopped speaking to each other was that deHavilland"
"""Every Frenchman Has One"", an account of her life in France. DeHavilland and Joan Fontaine are the only siblings to have won Academy Awards in a lead acting category. A lifelong rivalry between the two resulted in an estrangement that lasted over three decades. She has lived in Paris since 1956. DeHavilland's father, Walter de Havilland (1872–1968), served as an English professor at the Imperial University in Tokyo before becoming a patent attorney. Her mother, Lilian Fontaine (née Ruse; 1886–1975), was educated at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and became a stage actress. Lilian also sang with"
"Sophie Lorain Sophie Lorain (born Sophie-Hélène Lorain; 20 November 1957) is a French-Canadian actress, director and producer. She is known for having played ""Anne Fortier"" in the highly rated television series ""Fortier"" that first aired in Quebec, Canada. She is the daughter of actors Jacques Lorain and Denise Filiatrault. Her sister is French-Canadian actress Danièle Lorain. In addition to her work as an actress, she has directed the films ""Heat Wave (Les grandes chaleurs)"" and ""Slut in a Good Way (Charlotte a du fun)"", as well as episodes of the television series ""La galère"" and ""Nouvelle adresse"". She is married"
"mother, Lilian Augusta Ruse de Havilland Fontaine (1886–1975), was educated at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, and became a stage actress who left her career after going to Tokyo with her husband. Her mother returned to work with the stage name ""Lillian Fontaine"" after her daughters achieved prominence in the 1940s. Joan's paternal cousin was Sir Geoffrey de Havilland (1882–1965), an aircraft designer known for the de Havilland Mosquito, and founder of the aircraft company which bore his name. Her paternal grandfather, the Reverend Charles Richard deHavilland, was from a family from Guernsey, in the Channel Islands."
"to director and cinematographer Alexis Durand-Brault. Sophie Lorain Sophie Lorain (born Sophie-Hélène Lorain; 20 November 1957) is a French-Canadian actress, director and producer. She is known for having played ""Anne Fortier"" in the highly rated television series ""Fortier"" that first aired in Quebec, Canada. She is the daughter of actors Jacques Lorain and Denise Filiatrault. Her sister is French-Canadian actress Danièle Lorain. In addition to her work as an actress, she has directed the films ""Heat Wave (Les grandes chaleurs)"" and ""Slut in a Good Way (Charlotte a du fun)"", as well as episodes of the television series ""La galère"""
"sister. When she was 16 years old, deHavilland returned to Japan to live with her father. There she attended the Tokyo School for Foreign Children, graduating in 1935. Fontaine made her stage debut in the West Coast production of ""Call It a Day"" (1935) and made her film debut in MGM's ""No More Ladies"" (1935) in which she was credited as Joan Burfield. She was Herman Brix's leading lady in a low budget independent film, ""A Million to One"" (1937). Fontaine signed a contract with RKO Pictures. Her first film for the studio was ""Quality Street"" (1937) starring Katharine Hepburn,"
"Nicole Stéphane Nicole Stéphane (born Baroness Nicole de Rothschild, 27 May 1923 – 13 March 2007) was a French actress, producer and director. The elder of the two daughters of Baron James-Henri de Rothschild and his first wife, Claude Dupont, Nicole Stéphane was a member of the Rothschild banking family of France. Her immediate family, however, also was deeply immersed in the arts. Her paternal grandfather, Baron Henri de Rothschild, was a playwright and theatrical producer who wrote under the names Charles des Fontaines and André Pascal and owned Théâtre Antoine and Théâtre Pigalle. Her first cousin Philippine de Rothschild"
"biographer Charles Higham, the sisters always had an uneasy relationship, starting in early childhood when Olivia had trouble accepting the idea of having a younger sister, and Joan resenting her mother's favoring Olivia. Olivia would rip up the clothes that her sister was given to wear as hand-me-downs, forcing Joan to stitch them together again. This tension was made worse by Fontaine's frequent childhood illnesses, which led to her mother's overly protective expression, ""Livvie can, Joan can't."" DeHavilland was the first to become an actress, and for several years Fontaine was overshadowed by her sister's accomplishments. When Mervyn LeRoy offered"
"Augustine Brohan Joséphine-Félicité-Augustine Brohan (1824–1893) was a French actress. The eldest daughter of Augustine Susanne Brohan and the sister of Ethelie Madeleine Brohan, she was admitted to the Conservatoire when very young, twice taking the second prize for comedy. The ""soubrette"" part, entrusted for more than 150 years at the Comédie-Française to a succession of artists of the first rank, was at the moment without a representative, and Mlle Augustine Brohan made her debut there on May 19, 1841, as Dorine in ""Tartuffe"", and Lise in ""Rivaux deux-mêmes"". She was immediately admitted ""pensionnaire"", and at the end of eighteen months"
"roles. She died in Paris in 1950, aged 82 years. Léonie Yahne Léonie Yahne (August 8, 1867 — April 26, 1950) was a French comedic actress. Marie Léonie Jahn was born at Versailles, France. She used a different spelling of her surname professionally, to reflect its pronunciation. Yahne was an actress on the Paris stage for most of her career, which lasted from about 1884 to 1917. Her stage roles included Lucienne in ""Monsieur l'Abbé"" (1891), Roxane in ""Cyrano de Bergerac"" (1900), opposite Benoît-Constant Coquelin, the title part in Catulle Mendès's ""La Reine Fiammette"" (1898), Huguette in ""Famille"" (1901). and"
"Magda Fontanges Magda Fontanges (10 May 1905 – 1 October 1960), also known as Madeleine Coraboeuf, was a French actress, journalist and a spy for the Germany Secret Service between 1940 and 1943. Born in 1889, the daughter of the painter in Pouille-les-Coteaux, Fontanges lost her mother at age seven. By the age of 17 she was married, only to divorce two years later. Another source suggests that it was at 18 years of age, just after leaving school, that Fontanges married a police official. After the separation, she moved to Paris and took the surname Fontanges, the name of"
"in Hitchcock's ""Rebecca"" (1940), and thought she could be an international film star. However, her agent was worried about the length of a five-year contract; meanwhile, Hitchcock, whose outlook on the film was not the same as Selznick's, auditioned hundreds of others over many months, at last giving the role to Joan Fontaine. Unlike some of her peers, Pilbeam never made a film in Hollywood. She continued acting, with appearances in at least nine British films along with many stage roles, throughout the 1940s. One of her last films was ""The Three Weird Sisters"" (1948), its post-war Gothic-drama screenplay credited"
"Alice Arno Alice Arno, (born Marie-France Broquet on June 29, 1946) is a French actress and model, best known for her roles in European sexploitation and horror film genre. She is the sister of actress Chantal Broquet. Alice Arno (who was raised in a family of nudists) worked as a nude model (posing for ""Pop"", ""Men"", ""Topfilm""...) when she began her film career in 1969 at age 22. In 1971, she played the lead role in Claude Pierson's adaptation of Sade's novel ""Justine de Sade"". She became, along with Lina Romay and Monica Swinn, one of the most popular figures"
"Marie Anne Mancini Marie Anne Mancini, duchesse de Bouillon (1649 – 20 June 1714), was an Italian-French aristocrat and culture mecenate, the youngest of the five famous Mancini sisters, who along with two of their female Martinozzi cousins, were known at the court of King Louis XIV of France as the ""Mazarinettes"", because their uncle was the king's chief minister, Cardinal Mazarin. She is known for her involvement in the famous Poison Affair, and as the patron of La Fontaine. The parents of Marie Anne Mancini were Lorenzo Mancini, a Roman baron, necromancer and astrologer, and Geronima Mazzarini, sister of"
"secure roles in her floundering career. She persuaded sister Jackie to sell her the film rights to the book and found herself an investor - a casual acquaintance she had met at the Cannes Film Festival. Forty-five-year-old Joan Collins herself starred as Fontaine Khaled, while Swiss-born actor Oliver Tobias and English actress Emma Jacobs were cast in the roles of Tony Blake and Alexandra Khaled. The film was a big hit and revived the career of Joan Collins. The success of the film led Jackie Collins to write a sequel, ""The Bitch"", which was published the following year in 1979"
"Renée Jeanne Falconetti Renée Jeanne Falconetti (July 21, 1892 – December 12, 1946), sometimes credited as Maria Falconetti, Marie Falconetti, Renée Maria Falconetti, or, simply, Falconetti, was a French stage and film actress, notable for her role as Joan of Arc in Carl Theodor Dreyer's 1928 silent film, ""La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc"". Born in Pantin, Seine-Saint-Denis, Falconetti became a stage actress in Paris in 1918. By the time Dreyer watched her act in an amateur theater and selected her as his leading lady in his upcoming production ""La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc"", she was already a celebrated stage artiste,"
"on the Best Actress race between sibling rivals Joan Fontaine in Alfred Hitchcock’s ""Suspicion"" and Olivia de Havilland for ""Hold Back the Dawn"". Fontaine’s victory was the only time a performer won for a role in a Hitchcock film. This was also the first year in which documentaries were included. The first Oscar for a documentary was awarded to ""Churchill's Island"". ""The Little Foxes"" established a new high of nine nominations without winning a single Oscar. Its mark was matched by ""Peyton Place"" in 1957, and exceeded by ""The Turning Point"" and ""The Color Purple"", both of which received 11"
"Char Fontane Char ""Kaci"" Fontane (January 12, 1952 – April 1, 2007) was an American actress and singer. Born as Kerry Charae Fontane in Los Angeles, to singer Tony Fontane and his wife, actress Kerry Vaughn Fontane. Her first role was portraying her father as a young boy in the 1963 production ""The Tony Fontane Story"". The movie told about her father's rise to popularity as a teen idol and his subsequent tragedies and successes. She also played herself as a child in the second half of the story. She made guest appearances on several popular TV shows during the"
"She was then placed in La Roquette Prisons. Freed in 1955, Fontanges was later that year accused of stealing a valuable Maurice Utrillo painting from her lawyer and suspected lover. In 1960, Fontanges was found dead in her Geneva apartment from a suspected sleeping pill overdose. Magda Fontanges Magda Fontanges (10 May 1905 – 1 October 1960), also known as Madeleine Coraboeuf, was a French actress, journalist and a spy for the Germany Secret Service between 1940 and 1943. Born in 1889, the daughter of the painter in Pouille-les-Coteaux, Fontanges lost her mother at age seven. By the age of"
"Brigitte Fontaine Brigitte Fontaine, (born June 24, 1939) is a singer of avant-garde music. She has employed numerous unusual musical styles, melding rock and roll, folk, jazz, electronica, spoken word poetry, and world. She has collaborated with Stereolab, Michel Colombier, Jean-Claude Vannier, Areski Belkacem, Gotan Project, Sonic Youth, Antoine Duhamel, Grace Jones, Noir Désir, Archie Shepp, Arno, and The Art Ensemble of Chicago. She is also a novelist, playwright, poet, and actress. The daughter of two teachers, Brigitte Fontaine developed her taste for writing and drama very early. She spent her childhood in small villages of Finistère, then in Morlaix."
"Fontaine (singer) Fontaine Weyman, better known as Fontaine, is a singer, songwriter, guitarist and photographer in the Los Angeles, California, area. Born May 7, 1979, in France, she was raised in South Carolina. She has shared a stage with Paula Cole, performed at Lilith Fair, and provided back-up vocals for Rob Zombie, and Josh Brown. In 2006, she self-released her debut album, ""The Chemistry Between Us"". The track ""Long Way Home"" is featured in the film ""All In"", starring Michael Madsen, Dominique Swain and Louis Gosset Jr. Tracks ""Paris, Texas"" and ""Beachwood"" have been recognized by We Are Listening, an"
"Jean Baptiste Le Sueur Fontaine Jean Baptiste Fontaine, né ""Le Sueur"", (Paris, France 1745 – New Orleans, 5 July 1814), was a French actor and theatre director. He was director of the theatre in Cap-Haïtien and an actor and newspaper editor in New Orleans. He was known under his stage name Fontaine. Born in Paris, he moved to Saint Domingue before 1775, where he was employed at the Cap-Français Theatre. In 1780, he succeeded Deforges as the director of the theatre in Cap-Français, and under his leadership, the theatre reached its greatest success, interrupted only after the great revolution. In"
"unanimously elected ""sociétaire"". She soon became a great favorite, not only in the plays of Molière and de Regnard, but also in those of Marivaux. On her retirement from the stage in 1866, she made an unhappy marriage with Edmond David de Gheest (d. 1885), secretary to the Belgian legation in Paris. Augustine Brohan Joséphine-Félicité-Augustine Brohan (1824–1893) was a French actress. The eldest daughter of Augustine Susanne Brohan and the sister of Ethelie Madeleine Brohan, she was admitted to the Conservatoire when very young, twice taking the second prize for comedy. The ""soubrette"" part, entrusted for more than 150 years"
"(1907–2000). Although there was an approximate forty-seven-year-age difference, they have been frequently been mistakenly considered sisters. Josephine Wessely's career was short but it had sufficient impact to make her an idol for her niece and other stage actors. Josephine Wessely was known for playing juvenile tragic roles. She gained recognition for playing Gretchen in Goethe's ""Faust"", Klärchen in ""Egmont"" and Marie Beaumarchais in ""Clavigo"", as well as for her performance as Lessing's ""Emilia Galotti"". Wessely died aged 27, probably from leukaemia taking a cure at Carlsbad, never knowing her niece. She is buried at the Hütteldorf cemetery in Vienna. A"
"and Juliet"" and also played the leading character of Fran in the 2001 British horror film ""Dead Creatures"". Eva Fontaine Eva Fontaine is a British actress best known for over 800 appearances in her role as Faith Walker in the British drama television series ""Doctors"" between 2001 and 2006. The role gave her nominations in 2004 and 2006 for Best Actress at The British Soap Awards. Eva Fontaine was born in London. She has considered dance a career, chose acting as ""a lot less hard on the body"". She received her training as an actor at the Anna Scher Theatre"
"really something strange and very ambivalent.” Fontaine established herself as a very progressive filmmaker of her time when saying this, establishing that ‘women’s cinema’ should be based off the filmmaker's perspective rather than their gender. This also suggests that classifying and interpreting films in the category of ‘women’s cinema’ is creating bias and exclusivity among the genre in itself, when it should be a network of creation and empowerment, as Fontaine always intended. Anne Fontaine Anne Fontaine (born Anne-Fontaine Sibertin-Blanc; 15 July 1959) is a film director, screenwriter, and former actress. She lives and works in France. Born Anne-Fontaine Sibertin-Blanc"
"Eva Fontaine Eva Fontaine is a British actress best known for over 800 appearances in her role as Faith Walker in the British drama television series ""Doctors"" between 2001 and 2006. The role gave her nominations in 2004 and 2006 for Best Actress at The British Soap Awards. Eva Fontaine was born in London. She has considered dance a career, chose acting as ""a lot less hard on the body"". She received her training as an actor at the Anna Scher Theatre School. Fontaine was a member of the British Shakespeare Company, playing Juliet in their touring production of ""Romeo"