Joan Fontaine and Ida Lupino, 1961
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Ida Lupino & Jane Withers/Joan Fontaine - “A Possibility of Oil” Setinde…
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I’d almost forgotten, after those months in South Africa, what democracy was like. Just as when I had left the Iron Curtain countries of Hungary, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia, I could have knelt down and kissed the ground outside the New York State Theater. America … how truly beautiful you are.
~ Joan Fontaine
Ida Dear
I hear that your body is playing tricks on you which is sad news indeed.
I send you my fond love and the hope that you will overcome this as you have so many obstacles in the past.
Joan
June 14, 1995
Collier Young, Joan Fontaine and Ida Lupino on set of The Bigamist (1953)
Joan Fontaine and Olivia De Havilland, 1942. Photographed by Bob Landry
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“We may not get along personally, but I am absolutely thrilled that my sister has accomplished what she has. Imagine what we could have done if we had gotten together. We could have selected the right scripts, the right directors, the right producers - we could have built our own empire. But it was not to be.” -Joan Fontaine
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I returned to London so stiff from the unaccustomed exercise that I could hardly move. But Noel Coward was escorting me to the first night of Sleeping Beauty with Margot Fonteyn dancing in the leading role. In a glorious Griffe creation of tight-fitting chartreuse satin dripping with velvet grapes, I painfully sat through the first act at Covent Garden. Suddenly everyone in our box stood up and bowed deeply. The Queen Mother entered. I tried as best I could to execute a curtsey, yet the dress and my aching muscles held me in a vise. From his bent position, Noel snickered. The Queen Mother’s eyes twinkled at me, for she could clearly see my dilemma.
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Joan Fontaine
February 1946: Queen Elizabeth and the Royal Family attending a ballet at the opening to the Covent Garden Royal Opera House
Photo by David E. Scherman
