Cary Grant faced this co-star: "could not be married to her for 24 hours"
The pair played together in an Alfred Hitchcock thriller.
Alfred Hitchcock The films are ripe of tension, and for a pair of co-stars, it was also true of their off-screen relationship. In 1941,Cary Grant andJoan Fontaine play inSuspicion, with her character coming to suspect that her new husband married her for money and plans to kill her. Grant was cited as saying that the cast in front of the fountain made it all more real, because he could not bear it in real life either.
The bitter fountain quarrel with her sister,Olivia de Havilland, is well documented, but there was another much more minor Hollywood quarrel in which it was also involved. Read the rest to find out more about the reasons why she and Grant disagreed.
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The actors played a coupleSuspicion.
Suspicion Speaks of a woman (fountain) who runs away quickly with a charming man (Grant) to discover that he has a player and an unemployed liar. Over time, her fears for him grow up and grow up to the point where she is convinced that he was planning to assassinate her. It is based on a 1932 novel by Francis Iles calledLying before the fact.AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
Grant said he had the impression that he could "wipe the neck [from Fontaine]".
Before being thrown intoSuspicion, Fontaine and Grant were both in the years 1939GUNGA DIN. Ironically, they were originally supposed to play lovers in this film too, but Grant andDouglas Fairbanksdecided to change your part. We do not know if Grant and Fontaine came to hate himself on this set or not, but Grant certainly did not chop words on theRebeccaStar later.
According toLos Angeles Times,,Grant once said that the casting ofSuspicion was perfect because "anyone who knows me realizes that I could not be married to Joan Fontaine for more than 24 hours without wanting to twist my neck."
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Grant promised never to work with Hitchcock again.
We don't know much else about Grant's question with Fontaine - or if she did not hate her as much as he apparently did - but he did itDay to no longer work with Hitchcock afterSuspicion, according to Talk Society Film. Fortunately for moviegoers, it did not end up being the case. Grant and Hitchcock have collaborated three times more: onFamous,,To catch a thief, andFrom north to northwest.
The Factination site says thatGrant found Fontaine Being a diva, and that Hitchcock ignored it in favor of the payment of Fontaine all his attention. It seems that he overcome his anger with the director, and their future films would give Grant some of his most emblematic roles.
Fontaine won an Oscar for the film - beating his sister.
For his work inSuspicion, Fontaine won the Academy Prize for best actress. One of the actors she triumphed was from Havilland, who was nominated forRetain dawn.
"My paralysis was total," wrote Fontaine, discovering that she won the prize in her memoriesNo bed of roses (Going throughThe morning call). "I felt that Olivia crossed the table and grabbed my hair. I felt at the age of 4, faced with my older sister. Damn, I had incurred her anger!"
Shortly after Havilland won two Oscars herself: in 1947 forEveryone to his own tastes and in 1950 forThe heiress.
Grant was not nominated forSuspicion, but the film was in place for an exceptional film and the best score of a dramatic image.
