And parents wonder why they're the main topic at therapy sessions.

I’ve read Fontaine’s autobiography. She didn’t change her name to distance herself from Olivia. Her mother forbid her to use the de Havilland name bc there was only room for one de Havilland in Hollywood. Their mother it seems encouraged their feud.

Olivia might have said, "The best revenge is living longer and giving the last interview." Both extremely talented and successful.

This is so sad. Parents putting siblings through rivalry and favoristism is so sad...🤦🏾‍♀️

I think if they’d come together as sisters and strong women in the industry, they could have been unstoppable.

They both sure lived to ripe old ages. Joan died in 2013 at 96 and Olivia died in 2020, age 104.

Get rid of the background music which is annoying!

It's awful the amount of damage mother's can do between siblings. It's extremely narcissistic and gives them a sense of importance as the kids vie for attention. But the damage can last a lifetime.

Boy, for people that hate each other they took a lot of photos together.

Olivia de Havilland was one of the most stunningly beautiful Hollywood actresses. Even in old age, she kept her beauty.😊

What kept me watching this video was not the Hollywood-plotted-feud but the beauty of Olivia &-the absolutely GORGEOUS fashion & hair worn at the time!!!!! My dear lord... what have becomes of us???? 😰😰😰

I had an older brother and my mom preferred him over me. He and I never got along and were estranged when he died. I think parents are in control and they ise it to their advantage. Good video

Mom was a narcissist.

In our childhood my mom always preferred my docile sister. I learned not to care about what my abusive and narcissistic mother thinks while my sister is extremely attached to her. When I met my husband my mother suddenly was a lot nicer to me because he has a more prestigious career than my sister's boyfriend, it is very hard on my sister. My mother made sure we're both so mentally broken we can't have careers ourselves, we barely survive and keep having suicidal thoughts, both of us.

It is truly tragic that the sisters were never able to reconcile their differences and bury the hatchet. Can you image the pair of them doing "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?" or "Johnny Guitar." The tension on set and onscreen would have been thermonuclear!

Sadly I find this confusing. It would be better if all the incidents were reported in chronological order.

Two sisters two great actresses. Both sisters starred in great movies. My favorite was Olivia de Havilland. My favorite movie with her is To Each His Own. I teared up when I saw it the first time and each time it comes on I will watch it. I'm glad we had the two sisters for we benefited from it with their great movies that they left us. ♥️

Another famous rivalry... but this time with 2 siblings ! Interesting. Joan revealed in an interview that she believes that this feud started because she wasn’t properly introduced to her sister. Baby girl Olivia was probably already like ; " Who is that ?! She’s going to steal the show ! ". 😠😬 And the mother certainly projected mostly her hopes of an acting career for her older one : Olivia. Joan might felt a bit in the shadow of her older sister but little sister Fontaine was very ambitious too ! ( She allegedly had an iq of 160.) And she achieved everything Olivia wanted BEFORE her, even if she started a bit later than her famous older sister, and fontaine snubbed her at the academy awards ceremony when olivia congratulated her for her oscar , like to take revenge because she always felt in her chilhood that Olivia was the favourite... When Joan got the acclaim first, it probably created a bit of jealousy on Olivia's side but when De Havilland finally won the oscar 5 years after her sister. She snubbed her back, and was acting like Mariah carey before Mariah carey allegedly saying : " I don’t know her ! " . On a site note. Olivia de Havilland admitted being scare to death of Bette Davis while they worked together on a film. Davis, indeed could be intimidating, just like marlon brando. Mainly of french descent De Havilland found a second home in France back in the 60’s and lived mostly in Paris until her death in July 2020 at age 104. Rip to the feud sisters.

From Joan Fontaine's biography: When her first movie was released - the billboard had her name as "Joanna Fontana". Love that!

Also loved Olivia in “Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte”! I think it was a good choice for Bette Davis too. It was something different than the usual Davis and Crawford team. 👍🎥

They were both amazingly beautiful and talented actresses

I like this channel by extension the Hollywood golden era.🤩 The snakepit is one Olivia de havilland's great works. Wow this is a pretty horrendous sibling rivalry.😑 Sad.

They both were Beautiful. Shame on the Mother for helping her girls feud.

I’m a big fan of both. 😊

Love this. Just found your channel. Ecstatic.

It's a sad tale, life is hard enough, to be feuding as a child is one thing, but to carry that baggage the rest of your life...what a shame and waste...ah the human condition!!!😬

I was born 14 months after my oldest brother and was terribly competitive with him all through childhood. Fortunately grew out of it. I blame my mother for having us too close together (come to think of it, I should blame my dad).

Just found you and subscribed!! Awesome channel!!

There’s that annoying music again. The biographies of Frances Farmer & Olivia DeHaviland are interesting are engrossing enough without being battered with the mediocre jazz.

Thank you for your channel 👧💟

That sure is a lot of talent, beauty and success for two sisters from the same family. In an imperfect way, it reminds me of Shirley MacLaine and Warren Beatty.

They both had a place in Hollywood but sad together they could have been even better , and they both lived such long lives , i hope somewhere they had love for each other

She will always be Melanie Hamilton to me❤️❤️❤️

Olivia was beautiful.

Loved the colour photos.

Thank you.

My love for Olivia is great,The most beautiful woman that ever lived in my opinion.

I thought Olivia gave a magnificent performance in The Heiress but I always preferred Joan's sweet fragility in Rebecca and Suspicion.

Both were great actresses in their own right

Olivia and Joan both beautiful in their own way, but Olivia had a little extra something. Sisters, all it takes is one to start crap, you get tired of it, then the other starts, but you can never forget the blood tie.

They shared the de Havilland surname. Fontaine was derived from their stepfather as Joan's stage name so Joan wouldn't infringe on her sister's initial successes. Joan, however, maintained her legal surname after her fourth and final divorce, until she died.

I like what you're doing, but the storytelling needs a lot of editing. I've watched quite a few videos and in all of them you often repeat the same thing over and over, sometimes even in sentences that directly follow one another which just makes it appear that you've copied several different texts rather than writing your own. E.g In the introduction only the fact that de Havilland and Fontaine were lifelong rivals has been repeated several times which just starts sounding redundand. Also there are always multiple different titles for each video that are just no needed. Some edited storytelling/rhethoric skills and pictures that match the current subject rather than just going at random and these videos would have a whole new quality 👍

Sounds exactly like me and my sister! 😂🤣

Olivia de Havilland was a great actress. She pretended not to be the most beautiful woman in Gone With The Wind. I saw the beautiful actress in an interview that she did later in her career, She had a really long forehead, It didn't detract from her looks. I find it charming.

I recently subscribed to your channel and love ❤️ it! So entertaining and educational. 👍

Both beautiful and talented in their own right.. two successful siblings in the same career field is a wonderful thing..hope they reconciled with each other as sisters before they each died..

How could they say it was blown out of proportion while at the same time owning up to all the terrible offenses? Also earlier it was said that Joan signed with her studio before Olivia. Later it was said that Joan came back to find that Olivia was already with her studio. Which is correct?

No mention of Joan Fountain in the title!

Two beautiful and talented women. Olivia, was every bit as beautiful, as as Vivien Leigh, to me. Blood, should have been thicker than water. I think, they missed out on a Lot, not being in each other's lives. It's sad, really.

Gone With the Wind wasn't an MGM picture. It was produced by Selznick International. MGM merely released it.

Too bad that neither could swallow their pride and try to get along.

Olivia wasn't sad when Joan died, she and Joan's daughter had spoken and planned what they would say in case the press called, so they prepared the statement to give the media.

What do you mean “...the sister didn’t speak to each other until Fontaine’s death”?

Great content, but do you have to repeatedly flash the subscribe button on the screen? Distracting and annoying.

Great actress sisters

Mothers mothers mothers to have a great mother is surely a great thing

Two beautiful sisters. Olivia with her gorgeous eyes will always be Melanie Hamilton to me. No one really knows if it was a feud or a great publicity stunt which seemed to be the "thing" in the Hollywood hay days.

They were both lovely. It was probably publicity and studio driven.

Whatever Happened To Baby Joan? Can you imagine Joan and Olivia as the Hudson sisters? I have adored both stars, their great talent, for many years. MELANIE and the second MRS DEWINTER.

The sisters should have loved and supported one another.

Olivia de Havilland w as in the pilot episode of The big Valley, she had no lines. I've always been shocked by that

I love them both!!!!❤❤

Makes no sense holding onto something like that boggles the mind. Sisters doesn’t apply here.

Hmm, I never found the character of "Melanie" in "Gone With the Wind", as particularly "brainless";as quoted in the video. Just avidly innocent.

Part of me wants to hate the mother like everybody else, but the woman managed to have two daughters that we're extremely successful. Maybe she succeeded in her game plan, and gave them two amazing outcomes. I sort of feel like it's on them if they missed out on being close.

Olivia died only last year at a hundred and four

Gorgeous Family 💗

De havilland my favorite.

Both sisters were fine actresses but Joan was in more movies that are now recognized as classics (Gunga Din, The Women, Rebecca, Suspicion, Letter from an Unknown Woman, Jane Eyre, Ivanhoe,…) just to name a few

olivia was prettier

Visually, you could tell they were sisters. Looking at side-by-side images of them, they look almost the same.

As much as I loved and adored one sister, I disliked the other.

There must be more to it than this

I loved her in The screaming woman

Something wrong with there mother !☹️

I watched, The Heiress, a few weeks ago! Love that movie!!

I get it, sadly.😞

Too many requests to subscribe

They despised each other for no particular reason, sad. Uk

Divas, both!

The chronology here is all screwed up. They never spoke again after their mother died in 1975. But they did speak again in 1967. Joan died and the two did talk after that... (?!) And THEN, Olivia starred as Melanie in Gone With the Wind in 1939...

Xthey where related to jeffrey de Havilland the aircraft pioneer i believe. I live near where the old croydon airport was. Now a housing estate called roundshaw. There is de Havilland way. Both good actress.

She was my favorite after actress. RIP

Olivia lived to 104 wow

It's all part of Hollywood. I always loved Joan!

I remember her interview on TV in the UK where she mentioned the visit to the US by her cousin Geoffrey, designer of the 'Wooden Wonder' the Mosquito aircraft in WWII and that when she took him around the film lot where she was working she enthused that he was seen as the 'film star' of the moment by all around him.

wasn't it over Errol Flynn?

People our complicated they were jealous of each other

Family...😏😏

It's to bad that these sisters d isn't get along because of their mother. My mom had 6 of us but my 2nd to the oldest sister died at birth. My mother always chose my oldest sister over us. But we did get along even though we knew it was favoritism for my sister. I was the black sheep in my family. I was the second to the last in my family

interesting Joan's best friend was Joan Crawford and Oliva's was Bette Davis. Crawford and Devis hated each other as the 2 sisters

There are many Judas unfortunately traveling among us. She said she studies people like you-who’s studying her😡?

You left out the affairs and the main cause of the feud. Also, wasn't Olivia kicked out of the house at the age of 17.

Like your show, my generation. The background music is awfully annoying,

Read Fontayne's book. It shows her as petty, disagreeable, vindictive. Joan may have had difficulty with loving relationships and made every wrong she committed someone else's fault. Her sister was an easy target for her blaming and criticism.

Joan made some of my favorite movies.

I THINK OLIVA WAS A MUCH BETTER ACTRESS.

Can we please stop blaming the mother? These extraordinarily talented women made their own choices, and they chose not to get along with each other.

Joan clearly said the whole feud was fake and some of you STILL fall for it. Its called ACTING.

Joan was a superior actress and beauty and seemed to be more level-headed.