Past Relationships: Alfred Wright, Jr. (27 January 1964 June 1969) (divorced) No. Lovely piece and a wee bit jealous, as a journalist, of your opportunity to work with Joan on this. She was reunited with Jourdan in Decameron Nights (1953) then went to Paramount for the low budget Flight to Tangier (1953) with Jack Palance.
A woman whom I consider to be one of the most beautiful to ever grace the screen, the magnificent Gene Tierney. Martita Pareja Calderon -- Daughter.
[40] According to Fontaine, deHavilland did not invite her to a memorial service for their mother. How could we be in touch with her?
Unfortunately, the interview never came to pass and the sisters never had the opportunity to come face to face again.
Suggest an alternative Share your comments about this record This collection contains biographical summary descriptions and associated data about millions of famous and notable people from around the world. I tried to talk with her every couple of weeks and talked with her on the phone just 4 days before her death. 1945 Vulnerable and timid, Joan Fontaine simply became the part. Joan was a delight. She was very special and will be greatly missed. A true testament to a gentle, caring soul. Their clothes, their collective charm-I just wish there was more cool charm in this world, and less focus on image. She may have been too private to reveal this. Fontaine signed a contract with RKO Pictures. Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland was born in Tokyo on October 22 1917, a year after her sister Olivia.
She has been married to Earl Potter since September 22, 1979.
Family (3) Trivia (7) Daughter of William Dozier and Joan Fontaine. Change). When Joan found her she was refused contact with the child on the premise that her Peruvian adoption was not valid in the US.
Mrs. de Havilland had a desire to be an actress but her dreams were curtailed when she married, but now she hoped to pass on her dream to Olivia and Joan.
I hear you. A Certain Smile (1958) was based on the sexually frank novel by the precocious French writer Franoise Sagan, but Fontaine was sidelined in the role of Latin lover Rossano Brazzis understanding wife. Unsurprisingly, the arrangement lasted only 10 years. Web45. "[39] The following year, in a 1979 interview, Fontaine claimed the reason her sister and she stopped speaking to each other was that deHavilland wanted their mother (who was suffering from cancer) to be treated surgically at the advanced age of 88, which Fontaine apparently did not think was a good idea. Joan Fontaine - DECAMERON NIGHTS . She knew her perhaps better than anyone over these past few years, and in her letter to me today, she asked to clarify some things she has heard over the years about Joan, her life, her legend, and her character. Deborah Dozier Potter, whose mother was Joan Fontaine (1917-2013) and whose aunt was Olivia de Havilland (1916-2020), has written a touching remembrance of her late aunt. 
In her letter, Susan opened up to me about some of the misconceptions that she often comes across regarding Joan and her life. Martita Pareja Calderon -- Daughter. WebDaughter Martita, born 3 November 1946, adopted 1952. The part went to second choice Deborah Kerr, who earned an Oscar nomination.
According to an in-depth article on her by Rod Labbe in "Classic Images" magazine, Joan was offered the role of Karen Holmes, the adulterous army wife, in Columbia Pictures' From Here to Eternity (1953), based on James Jones' novel, after the studio had purchased the film rights. 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. Web45.
Yes, I am glad too. I told him it was just as well. She appeared mostly in drama films through the 1940s, including Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948), which is now considered a classic.
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Her father was a British patent attorney with a lucrative practice in Japan, but due to Joan and older sister Olivia de Havilland's recurring ailments the family moved to California in the hopes of improving their health. By now it was safe to say she was more famous than her older sister and more fine films followed. 1908, m. Nov-1952, div.
In 1951, between husbands, Joan Fontaine adopted a five-year-old Peruvian girl, Martita Pareja, whom she had met on a tour of the Andes and whose father was caretaker of the ruins at Machu Picchu. Alas, the one photo she sent me, a regal shot of her as Eleanor of Aquitaine, was misplaced by the editor.
Subsequently, Fontaine had to invent a name, taking first Joan Burfield, and later Joan Fontaine taking her stepfather's surname. There were countless places very special to Joanshe was a woman who loved deeply and became attached to many people, places, and things. She began her film career in 1935, signing a contract with RKO Pictures. However, as someone who has had contact with Joan myself, and who knows several unrelated people who knew her extremely well, what Susan says rings true to me. In the film, Fontaine and Lupino play Edmond OBriens two wives and Lupino was the director. Webecame instant friends and that friendship lasted for over 50 years. Suspicion, in which Fontaine played a similar role as a newly-wed whose husband may be a murderer, again tapped those traits.
Debbie Dozier, Martita Pareja, Deborah Lesley Dozier. At first she experimented with a variety of stage names, including Joan St John and Joan Burfield. She had not been first choice for the part. Jordan Baker. [39], Both sisters largely refused to comment publicly about their relationship. Here you will find pieces on frequently seen classics and some lesser-known gems, as well as book reviews, festival coverage, and pieces on the history, theory and culture of film as it relates to the study of classic cinema. And so, my dear Aunt Olivia, thank you for loving me and for being such a mentor to me.. But, Susan tells us, that rift healed, and healed well. However, Susan wants to make it very clear that Joan had no hard feelings toward her sister and that she never saw any animosity toward Olivia. Susan tells me that Joan was once approached about the possibility of an on-air interview with her and Olivia together, and Joan agreed to it.
She seemed like a wonderful and very interesting person! Im glad Miss Fontaine was able to live in her home until the end of her life, with devoted people around her, and her pets. [57], Fontaine's Academy Award for Best Actress in Suspicion was initially to be sold at an animal rights auction; however, the Academy threatened to sue since it was not offered back to them for $1 and Fontaine's estate retained possession.[58]. Martita and Joan in later years wrote and talked on the phone to each other quite often. Hopefully, the Lion in Winter article will eventually be on-line. WebFontaine met Martita while visiting Incan ruins where Martita's father worked as a caretaker. [45] The two of them had a custody battle over their child which lingered through the 1950s. In 1954, she had replaced Deborah Kerr in the Broadway production of Tea and Sympathy, but a shoulder injury forced her to withdraw. Web45. If its not too personal a question, do you know what fragrance Miss Fontaine favoured?
Sheloved both of her girls..
They have one child. She endured a grueling six-month series of film tests along with hundreds of other actresses before securing the part sometime before her 22nd birthday. At this play, the movie mogul Jesse Lasky went backstage on opening night and instantly signed her to a contract. I never meant to stay married to you that long. In 1946 she married the producer William Dozier, with whom she had a daughter, Deborah, born in 1948. She had an effect on all of usthats what these prominent people do. [35], De Havilland and Fontaine were both nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1942. Her third and fourth husbands were Collier Young, whom she married in 1952, and, briefly, from 1964, the sports magazine editor Alfred Wright Jr. Most of her 1960s work was done on television or stage.
Their divorce was final in January 1951.
How wonderful, Rod! Suggest an alternative Share your comments about this record This collection contains biographical summary descriptions and associated data about millions of famous and notable people from around the world. Susan would like our readers to know that this is not truethough Susan did not disclose Joans true final resting place, she would like us to know that Joans ashes were not scattered in the Pacific. [2] Her mother, Lilian Augusta Ruse de Havilland Fontaine (18861975),[3] 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. Stepdaughter of Ann Rutherford.
Unlike Letter from an Unknown Woman, which was the acme of romanticism but left the public cold, September Affair (1950) was a 10-hankie job that had shopgirls sobbing all the way to the last bus home. She toyed with returning to the stage.
Her mother Lilian Fontaine. Ill keep you posted if I hear anything!
I am deeply humbled that Susan chose Backlots for this honor. Joan was a delicate and introspective child and at the age of 15 doctors recommended a sea voyage back to Tokyo in order that she could see her father and learn to mix with people. [51], Fontaine had an affair with actor and producer John Houseman after her marriage to Aherne. 1969) High School: The American School, Japan RKO Radio Pictures under contract Oscar for Best Actress 1940 for Suspicion Hollywood Walk of Fame 1645 Vine Street Endorsement of Smirnoff Vodka 1960 FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR Like Rebecca, this was also based on a novel by Daphne du Maurier. Carole Lombard's beautifully haunting Life magazine cover, that I am honored to have in my personal magazine collection. Change), You are commenting using your Facebook account. [9], 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. These included two musicals in 1937 Music for Madame with Nino Manfredi and A Damsel in Distress with Fred Astaire, in which she played an English aristocrat.
Just some food for thought. And when Joan passed away this past December, we were in touch again. Susan was a very important part of Joans life during her last decade.
"I have no family ties anymore, so I want to work", she said. Jun 13, 2014 - Joan Fontaine with her daughters Martita Pareja and Deborah.
At RKO she was a femme fatale in Born to Be Bad (1950). 1974 and Playmates 1972, She has been married to Earl Potter since September 22, 1979, They have one child, Manquant : pareja She is so greatly missed. Olivia de Havillands Niece (Joan Fontaines Daughter) Remembers Her as a Dear Mentor Deborah Dozier Potter, whose mother was Joan Fontaine (1917-2013) and whose aunt was Olivia de Havilland (1916-2020), has written a https://scarletthefilmmagazine.wordpress.com/2016/01/21/joan-fontaine-the-lioness-in-winter/. I forgot I had something else to say-the Viv and Larry website, about Vivien Leigh, has a beautiful piece about Olivia deHaviland meeting Vivien Leigh.
She returned to Hollywood for the first time in 15 years in 1975 to appear in an episode of Cannon especially written for her. Fontaine published her autobiography, No Bed of Roses, in 1978. [48] Their divorce was final in January 1961. (1951) and Something to Live For (1952), a third film with George Stevens.
[10] This was the only Academy Award-winning acting performance to have been directed by Hitchcock.
[2] Her mother returned to work with the stage name "Lillian Fontaine" after Joan and her elder sister Olivia de Havilland achieved prominence in the 1940s. Yes, Susan was a big part of Joans life and I think she facilitated a lot of things over these past years. In these productions she was at best wasted, at worst miscast. Joan was very fond of Susan and I know Joan said many times, I dont know what I would do without her. Sincerest condolences to Joan's two daughters,Deborah Leslie Dozier,Martita Pareja Calderon,and to her sister,Olivia de Havilland. Younger stepsister of Gloria May and Robert Dozier. "I still host an interview show for cable in New York. Adapted from a bittersweet Viennese story by Stefan Zweig, it had a pronounced European flavour and was the most elegant film Austrian director Max Ophls made in Hollywood. Higham states that Fontaine "felt guilty about winning given her lack of obsessive career drive ".
THE LION IN WINTER was indeed so dear to Joans heart, and I love that you are doing a piece about it. [35], Fontaine held dual citizenship; she was British by birthright (both her parents were British) and became an American citizen in April 1943. Joan was one of my all time favorites and the first classic actress I became interested in.
Younger stepsister of Gloria May and Robert Dozier. In her teens, Martita went through some problems and there was a rift between them. Ran away in 1963. It is today considered to be a classic with one of the finest performances of her career.[22]. [15] The following year she appeared in Private Lives. The film was released to glowing reviews, and Fontaine was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress. In 1951, between husbands, Joan Fontaine adopted a five-year-old Peruvian girl, Martita Pareja, whom she had met on a tour of the Andes and whose father was caretaker of the ruins at Machu Picchu. 1945 Joan never had an affair with Howard Hughes, she writes. It was something very dear to Joans heart, and Im so happy that Susan supplied the final puzzle piece. Was considered for the title role in Mildred Pierce (1945).
Pinterest. I do know, though, that there is a project about Joan in the works by somebody elsenot sure where he is in the process though. They were photographed laughing together at a party for Marlene Dietrich in 1967. 1945 1974 and Playmates 1972, She has been married to Earl Potter since September 22, 1979, They have one child, Manquant : pareja Lovely. Absent from the big screen for a while, she took parts in television and dinner theaters. Joan Fontaine and her daughter, Deborah.
Fontaine, however, seemed to regard the incident as a shopping expedition for exotic curios.
When she was 16 years old, Joan returned to Japan to live with her father. The only time fans received mail from her personally was at Christmastime. It was during a weekend trip to Santa Barbara, California, that gathered de Havilland, Fontaine and their beloved mother together for what would also be another notable last: The next morning, the sisters and Gams posed for prearranged professional photos. [11] Fontaine later said it had "an A budget but a Z story."[12]. [27] She was in The Users (1978) and was nominated for an Emmy Award for the soap opera Ryan's Hope in 1980. The following year, she won that award for her role in Hitchcock's Suspicion (1941).
Joan gave me some help with that more than once stearing work to me through people she knew. I hope they did reconcile, but it still displays an ugliness of character. I wrote Joan in April of 2013 to explain the situation and ask for a replacement. Lara is the author of CAPTAIN OF HER SOUL: The Life of Marion Davies (UC Press, 2022). [53][54] Fontaine met Martita while visiting Incan ruins where Martita's father worked as a caretaker. "[36] Several years later, however, deHavilland apparently remembered what she perceived as a slight and exacted her own revenge by brushing past Fontaine, who was waiting with her hand extended, because deHavilland took offense at a comment Fontaine had made about deHavilland's husband.
Martita also visited Joan at her home in Carmel, CA. Not sure this rings true to me. Only Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948) broke the pattern. Today. I do wonder if she's off by a year, because these images from 1972 certainly feel like they could be the last? Fontaine, however, tells a different story in her autobiography, explaining that she was paralyzed with surprise when she won the Academy Award, and that deHavilland insisted that she get up to accept it. She said, "At my time in life, I don't want to do bit parts. Join us at the Backlot Commissary, the place for Backlots' readers to share content and discuss movies! A shame that it never happened. In 1951 she starred in Paramount's Darling, How Could You! Like most, I had heard/read various rumors about Joan Fontaines private life (rift with her daughters, romances, estrangement from her sister) and though I have always been more interested in her work on film than her personal life, gossip and half-truths do make an impression. Olivia was the first to become an actress; when Fontaine tried to follow her lead, their mother, who favored Olivia, refused to let Joan use the family name.[how?] Her daughters Martita Pareja, Debbie Dozier. Sister: Olivia de Havilland. "Ours was what was known in Hollywood as a 'romance,' -- which meant that we slept together three or four nights a week, got invited to parties together, went away together for weekends and sometimes talked about getting married without really meaning it," Houseman wrote in Front and Center, his second autobiography. [38], 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. There she attended the Tokyo School for Foreign Children, graduating in 1935. Mother: Lilian Fontaine. "[55], On December 15, 2013, Fontaine died in her sleep of natural causes at the age of 96 in her Carmel Highlands home. Jun 13, 2014 - Joan Fontaine with her daughters Martita Pareja and Deborah. She was dubbed once by Micaela Giustiniani in The Women (1939), once by Dina Perbellini and once by Paola Barbara in Suspicion (1941). I remember when we first went to visit with Joan in California, she huged us and teared up and said, I am so happy you came to see me. Anther autobiography would have been interesting, for sure! In 1952, she took in a 5-year-old Peruvian girl, Martita Pareja Calderon. Hollywood Studio. Bob Lawson She has been married to Earl Potter since September 22, 1979. Fontaine also appeared in Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948) directed by Max Ophls, produced by John Houseman and co-starring Louis Jourdan. Unhappily, it never received an adequate release.
I love the fact that these actors had brains-the ability to form profound thoughts. In 1951, on a South American film junket, Fontaine befriended a young Peruvian girl, Martita Pareja, whom she eventually adopted.
She relished playing femmes fatales in such films as Ivy (1947) and Born to Be Bad (1950); she remained convinced, against the evidence of Decameron Nights (1953) and Casanovas Big Night (1954), of her comic gifts; and she unwisely accepted the role of Lady Rowena in Ivanhoe (1952) the statuesque Anglo-Saxon beauty who gets her man but loses sympathy to her tragic rival, the dark and sultry Elizabeth Taylor (ironically called Rebecca in the film). Fontaine raised Deborah and Martita side by side, but when Martitas 16th birthday approached, she told Fontaine that she didnt want to go back to Peru.
Edward Small borrowed her to play Louis Hayward's love interest in The Duke of West Point (1938), then Stevens used her at RKO in Gunga Din (1939) as Douglas Fairbanks Jr.'s love interest. Hollywood Actor.
Rod: So glad to finally get to read this; have read your various postings about it for several years now so am glad to have checked back here just to see if anyone had added to the comments very glad to have found yours. Fontaine raised Deborah and Martita side by side, but when Martitas 16th birthday approached, she told Fontaine that she didnt want to go back to Peru. But I cherish the personal notes and photos shed sent in recent years. Her paternal grandfather, the Reverend Charles Richard deHavilland, was from a family from Guernsey, in the Channel Islands. In fact, it would be bigger than Hiroshima..
Also, Rosalind Russell once said, 'Always escape the mother parts.' In a rare act of reconciliation, she and sister Olivia de Havilland celebrated Christmas 1962 together with their then-husbands and children. [28] In 1982, she traveled to Berlin, Germany, and served as a jury president for the Berlin International Film Festival. [31] She played the lead in a TV movie, Dark Crossings (1986), replacing Loretta Young.
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