For the beautiful and talented Olivia de Havilland (born 1916).
Olivia de Havilland is the elder sister of actress Joan Fontaine. Along with her sister, de Havilland is one of the last surviving female stars from 1930s Hollywood. She is also the last living lead from "Gone with the Wind".
De Havilland first appeared as Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream, her first stage production, at the Hollywood Bowl. The stage production was later turned into a 1935 movie, her film debut. Although the stage cast was largely replaced with Warner Bros. contract players, she was hired to reprise her role as Hermia. After appearing with Joe E. Brown in "Alibi Ike" and James Cagney in The Irish in Us, she played opposite Errol Flynn in such highly popular films as "Captain Blood", "The Charge of the Light Brigade" (1936), and as Maid Marian to Flynn's Robin Hood in "The Adventures of Robin Hood"(1938). Overall, she starred opposite Flynn in eight films.
In her career, she won two Oscars. The first for "To Each His Own" (1946) and the second and last for "The Heiress" (1949). As of today, Ms. de Havilland is enjoying retierment in Paris and I haven't a doubt that she is still as classier, elegant, and lady-like as she was back when she played Melanie in 1939.
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Great actress :)
Folklorica 2 years ago 3
Great tribute to the legendary Olivia!
sebasj1978 2 years ago