Posted on 12/15/2013 5:16:52 PM PST by Borges
I know it’s amazing. God bless them. The British WWII fighter bomber De Haviland Mosquito is named after her. I was watching Santa Fe Trail on TCM a few days ago and was amazed to see she is still alive today. Wow. A lot of years.
No, her sister Olivia de Havilland was Melanie.
Don’t forget Eleanor Parker leaving us 6 days ago at 91. Hollywood must be running low on beautiful, skilled, nonagenarian actresses, although Joan’s surviving older sister certainly qualifies.
Also (as mentioned by someone else above), Tom Laughlin, best known for the role of "Billy Jack", died this weekend.
Another giant of the cinema gone. RIP.
I presume she never reconciled with her sister.
My late mother-in-law said she went to school with Joan Fontaine and her sister Olivia de Havilland at Los Gatos High School in California.
I didn’t realize the two women were sisters until my mother-in-law mentioned it years ago.
I have the Hitchcock movie “Suspicion” on DVD. I’ll watch it again tonight as a tribute to Joan.
Damn...
Threes... always in threes...
O’Toole, Laughlin, and Fontaine.
Yes. Sorry.
Looks like Olivia won.
Everybody is dying today. Must be the cold and snow in the air.
Oh, I love that movie.
That’s 3 actors just today.
Peter O.
Joan F.
Tom M.
2013 has been a bad year; a lot of people have died.
My uncle is having his annual Christmas Party next Saturday and I said to him the other day: “There’s a lot of people that won’t be there.”
For obvious reasons, I’m not going.
“Everybody is dying today. Must be the cold and snow in the air.”
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More likely from an Obamination.
Ping
Many of them are obscure names. However, RIP.
this is my favorite Hitchcock movie... i also loved the spoof done by Carol Burnett :)
“The British WWII fighter bomber De Haviland Mosquito is named after her.”
Which was made by the de Havilland Aircraft Company
Great film. Need to watch it again.
Nobody is going to believe this but I was watching the “TCM Remembers” short about Eleanor Parker thinking it was about Joan Fontaine and now Joan Fontaine is gone too.
Gives me the willies and I promise not to think about anybody else dying for a while.
That’s three by the way.
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