A year ago, we ran a Screengrab Top Ten devoted to the greatest Hollywood feuds of all time. Somehow, we neglected to mention the long-running animosity between two real-life sisters--Olivia de Havilland and the younger sibling, Joan Fontaine, both Oscar winning actresses, both big stars in the 1940s, and both reputedly liable to laugh themselves to death if they ever got the chance to see the other step on a roller skate and ride it into an open manhole. Now Rupert Cornwell of the Independent rubs salt in the wound by informing us that both ladies, now 91 and 90 years old respectively, would still like nothing better than to ring each other's doorbell and run. According to Cornwell, the scab got flicked off recently when "the Academy of Motion Pictures which organises the Oscars held a bash honouring the late actress Bette Davis on the 100th anniversary of her birth. Naturally, Joan and Olivia, among the closest surviving contemporaries of Bette Davis were invited. According to insiders, Olivia – who lives in Paris – at first let it be known she could not manage so long a trip. Upon learning her sister would not be coming, Joan agreed to attend. Then Olivia decided after all she would be there in person to commemorate Davis, her friend with whom she had worked in films such as Hush Sweet Charlotte. So Joan in the end took a pass."
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