Although she is no longer with us, Joan Fontaine remains the epitome of Hollywood style and elegance. We will never see her like again, and that's our loss.

Thank you for posting this. Joan was an elegant blonde beauty of Hollywood golden era. Although mainly well known for her roles in Rebecca and Suspicion, as well as the younger sister of Olivia deHavilland, she was talented and famous in her own right and was excellent in many of her other movie roles (The Constant Nymph, This Above All, Letter from an Unknown Woman, etc.). She was the original Hitchcok's Hollywood blonde followed by Ingrid Bergman, Grace Kelly, Vera Miles, Kim Novak and Tippi Hedren. Joan was a very smart lady - respected and beloved by many.

Ohh... Qué maravilla encontrarse con estas joyitas navegando por la red. ¡Muchas gracias por compartirlo!

I absolutely love these interviews with Joan Fontaine! What a FASCINATING personality! She was so, so pretty as an older woman. Beautiful and with great charisma. Thank you so very much for sharing with all of us this interview, really. What a delight to watch it over and over again.

Maravillosa Actriz, maravillosa mujer... Encantadora... Aquí en el 2021 maravillada de ella

Lovely Lady. So Beautiful and Talented Actress

The lovely Joan,still quite lovely and what a wonderful sense of humor. Thankyou Rocio for all these wonderful movies you have posted.

What a charming lady! And she was always beautiful and sexy in very subtle way. Thank you, Rocio for making this available!

Honestly, she is so beautiful. Watching interviews of her reminds me of exactly how she was in her movies. Thank you so much for uploading this :)

Wonderful, thanks again! Loved her sense of humour about Olivia and about how she got a few roles for not being "beautiful".

Qué hermosa y talentosa fue.Q.E.P.D.

Que preciosa señora del Cine , se ve que era muy simpática . yo he visto esa película Rebeca donde luce radiante y fresca inocencia .

Love Olivia, and I think she was a more versatile actress, but Joan was very effective in almost anything she did. I also think she is much more down-to-earth than Olivia who can be a little grand.

Thank you so much for uploading this! I was just thinking, I wish there were more interviews with Joan Fontaine! Thank you!!

the best...

The good sister.

Parece una mujer muy simpatica y encantadora pero claro por una entrevista no la conoces pero una magnifica actriz

I think she mentioned the wrong film when she went on about the dressing room of Jennifer Jones. The film they did together was 'Tender is the Night" and not 'A Certain Smile.'

Que elegante Joan Fontaine, Hay una película de 1950, Idilio en Septiembre, Joan Fontaine, Joseph Cotten. Me gustó mucho.

Fascinating.

Ella pertenece a un Hollywood dorado al que también pertenecieron grandes Divas como Greta Garbo , Joan Crawford , Bette Davis , Carole Lombard , una época que fue desapareciendo con la popularidad de la televisión eso por los años 50's .

Joan, will you be the voice of my google maps navigation?

A stage trained actress who happens to be incredibly beautiful all the time. She was the real goddess of the 1940s, not Rita.

Que hermanas mas bellas y talentosas aunque las comparaciones son odiosas como actriz me quedo con olivia

Pero bueno es mi opinion las dos buenas actrices cada una en su genero

Pero es que joan era bellisima

1:30 How blunt

Love both, but I have a special affection for Joan, I admire the strong woman she was all her life and how she must had suffered for it. I think Olivia should have gone to the psychologist. It was not Joan's fault. I believe Joan tried to get close to Olivia, but she did not allow it. they could have gotten over it together, a joint therapy should have been done as well. Their mother always showed that Olivia was her favorite daughter and I believe that Joan tried to prove to her mother and sister that she could be a good actress like her sister, since her mother was an unsuccessful actress for having abdicated her career to get married. Lilian (their mother) forbade Joan to use her sister's last name, so Joan had to use her stepfather's last name. This rivalry from when they were small was jostling when they grew up, as the disputes became more complex, including Joan the fact that Joan had married an ex-boyfriend of Olivia, and both were in love with Errol Flynn. I love Joan! Beautiful and elegant lady. I believe that, analyzing her life, her behavior, and that of her sister Olivia, Joan was extremely deprived of the love and attention she longed for from her mother and sister her whole life. She always tries to demonstrate a certainty and a bit of irony when asked about her rivalry with Olivia. Her mother's declared preference for Olivia has affected her deeply, though she has always tried to hide it, but by analyzing her expressions when she speaks about her sister and mother, we can clearly see that. She tries to show a security to protect herself from the psychologist violence she suffered since her childhood. In fact, she was a very lonely person, surrounded by many people, but she was deprived, both by herself and the other relatives, of a coexistence of confidence, trust and love. I read her autobiography, read dozens of articles about her, interviews, etc. I already had a very big sympathy for Joan and I have a special affection for her, but in these last weeks, made me fall in love with the person she was definitely. I found an article, where her private secretary and great friend Susan Pfeiffer, clarified several points of Joan's life that is wrongly spoken. She wanted to clarify these speculations for decades. Here’s the full article: EVERYONE WHO MET HER FELL IN LOVE WITH HER:” A Letter From Susan, the Secretary of Joan Fontaine Posted on February 22, 2014 | Upon checking my inbox earlier today, I found that I had received a letter from Susan Pfeiffer, secretary and beloved friend to Joan Fontaine. Susan and I have been in touch several times-last October when I conducted a written interview with Joan, it was Susan who helped with the correspondence and was an integral part of the interview coming to fruition. And when Joan passed away this past December, we were in touch again. Susan was a very important part of Joan’s life during her last decade. 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. I have long been protective of Joan, as I feel that she was terribly misunderstood by many people. A progressive thinker and very sensitive to the plight of animals, she was ahead of her time in many ways, in ways inconceivable to most of her generation. In her letter, Susan opened up to me about some of the misconceptions that she often comes across regarding Joan and her life. I am deeply humbled that Susan chose Backlots for this honor. Joan spent her final years in quietude (she had no computer and no presence on the internet, as has been incorrectly reported), in a beautiful house in Carmel overlooking the Pacific Ocean. When she passed away on December 15, there was some talk that she was cremated and her ashes were scattered on the Pacific Ocean close to her home. Susan would like our readers to know that this is not true-though Susan did not disclose Joan’s true final resting place, she would like us to know that Joan’s ashes were not scattered in the Pacific. There were countless places very special to Joan-she was a woman who loved deeply and became attached to many people, places, and things. Susan describes her as “one of the kindest, loving women I have ever met.” Joan had two daughters, Deborah (born in 1948) and Martita (a daughter born in Peru in 1946 who came to live with Joan in 1951). In her teens, Martita went through some problems and there was a rift between them. Joan discussed this in her autobiography and as she was a private person who didn’t talk much about her private life, people assumed that the rift remained and Martita and Joan never made up. But, Susan tells us, that rift healed, and healed well. Martita and Joan were close as adults, and Martita came to Joan’s home in Carmel for a visit during Susan’s years with her. She was close to both of her daughters-Deborah and Martita both sent flowers and cards for birthdays and holidays, and they talked often on the phone. Susan tells us: “Joan saved all the cards and letters sent by both Martita and Deborah. They meant a lot to her. She loved both of her girls.” Playing with her daughters, circa 1955. Perhaps the most discussed part of Joan’s life was her relationship with her sister, Olivia de Havilland. As with many siblings, their relationship was one of very serious ups and downs. At the time of Joan’s death, she and Olivia had not spoken for a long time. Joan is often maligned for this, and Susan tells of countless letters from fans advising Joan to “mend fences” with Olivia, and chastising her for not attending the ceremony when Olivia was awarded the Legion d’Honneur (Joan never received an invitation and didn’t learn of the event until after the fact). 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. Unfortunately, the interview never came to pass and the sisters never had the opportunity to come face to face again. In addition, Susan recalls speaking with Joan about a rumor regarding her and Errol Flynn being lovers. Errol and Joan were friends/acquaintances, writes Susan, but never lovers. Susan also wishes to clear up a rumor about Joan and Howard Hughes. “Joan never had an affair with Howard Hughes,” she writes. “She was not attracted to him.” This is also corroborated in Joan’s autobiography, in which she relates that Howard Hughes made several passes at her, but she was never interested. Closing her letter, Susan gives us one final, beautiful insight into Joan Fontaine, the person: “She cared about everyone, and everyone who met her, fell in love with her. She was very special and will be greatly missed.” A true testament to a gentle, caring soul. Thank you to Susan Pfeiffer for these wonderful insights into a woman who truly is greatly missed.”

Pero es que joan era bellisima elegante y fina y eclipsaba a olivia

Anda! Terenci moix con Rebecca😲

She is very interesting , but i have no sympathy for her feud with her sister and so on, and the fortunate circumstance she was born into . And she doesn't want it either so for good or ill im glad she existed as a a great actress .

She reminds me of Meryl Streep..

But her sister got the last laugh, outliving Joan till the ripe young age of 104!

Near end of interview she is talking about how she got the part not by winning it but because she was the skinny gangly type they wanted . I assume they are talking about Jane Eyre . Well there was another even younger actress many years after Fontaine's stardom who got a very controversial part for Kubrick's 1962 "Lolita" Sue Lyon which gave her almost instant fame . I like listening to both Fontaine and Lyon , but i find Lyon more down to earth but intelligent like Fontaine . I'd much rather meet Lyon than Fontaine . click on link to view short interview of Sue Lyon some 30 or so years after she made Lolita , it is very revealing how H wood can suck the life out of an actress or actor . kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hLV8p7uZtb_cn4E.html

Olivia era mas versatil interpretaba bien a la mujer candida a la feme fatal , hacia cine de aventuras historicas y tambien era bella y elegante

She was not hard ☺