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Olivia de Havilland
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The Woman He Loved (1988)
[ Jane Seymour ]
Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna (1986)
[ Amy Irving ][ Susan Lucci ][ Claire Bloom ][ Elke Sommer ]
The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana (1982)
[ Catherine Oxenberg ][ Holland Taylor ][ Frances Conroy ][ Dana Wynter ]
Murder Is Easy (1982)
[ Lesley Ann Down ]
The Fifth Musketeer (1979)
[ Ursula Andress ][ Sylvia Kristel ]
The Swarm (1978)
[ Katherine Ross ][ Patty Duke ][ Lee Grant ]
Airport '77 (1977)
[ Kathleen Quinlan ][ Lee Grant ][ Brenda Vaccaro ][ Pamela Bellwood ]
Pope Joan (1972)
[ Lesley Ann Down ][ Liv Ullmann ]
The Screaming Woman (1972)
[ Alexandra Hay ]
The Adventurers (1970)
[ Cia Berg ][ Jaclyn Smith ][ Lois Maxwell ][ Leigh Taylor-Young ][ Angela Scoular ]
Noon Wine (1966)
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)
[ Betty Davis ][ Agnes Moorehead ]
Lady in a Cage (1964)
[ Jennifer Billingsley ]
Light in the Piazza (1962)
[ Yvette Mimeux ]
Libel (1959)
[ Vanda ]
The Proud Rebel (1958)
[ Mary Wickes ]
The Ambassador's Daughter (1956)
[ Myrna Loy ]
Not as a Stranger (1955)
[ Gloria Grahame ][ Juanita Moore ]
That Lady (1955)
My Cousin Rachel (1952)
The Heiress (1949)
The Snake Pit (1948)
The Dark Mirror (1946)
The Well-Groomed Bride (1946)
Devotion (1946)
[ Jo Kennedy ]
To Each His Own (1946)
Government Girl (1944)
[ Agnes Moorehead ]
Princess O'Rourke (1943)
[ Jane Wyman ]
In This Our Life (1942)
[ Betty Davis ][ Billie Burke ][ Hattie McDaniel ]
The Male Animal (1942)
[ Hattie McDaniel ]
Hold Back the Dawn (1941)
[ Veronica Lake ][ Paulette Goddard ]
The Strawberry Blonde (1941)
[ Rita Hayworth ][ James Cagney ]
They Died with Their Boots On (1941)
[ Hattie McDaniel ][ Eleonor Parker ][ Jo Kennedy ]
Santa Fe Trail (1940)
My Love Came Back (1940)
[ Jane Wyman ]
Raffles (1939)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
[ Vivian Leigh ][ Hattie McDaniel ]
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)
[ Betty Davis ]
Dodge City (1939)
Wings of the Navy (1939)
Hard to Get (1938)
Four's a Crowd (1938)
[ Lana Turner ][ Margaret Hamilton ][ Rosalind Russel ]
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
Gold Is Where You Find It (1938)
The Great Garrick (1937)
[ Lana Turner ]
It's Love I'm After (1937)
[ Betty Davis ]
Call It a Day (1937)
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)
Anthony Adverse (1936)
Captain Blood (1935)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)
[ James Cagney ]
The Irish in Us (1935)
[ James Cagney ]
Alibi Ike (1935)


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Olivia Mary de Havilland was born to a British patent attorney and his wife on July 1, 1916, in Tokyo, Japan. Her sister, Joan, later to become famous as Joan Fontaine, was born the following year. Her parents divorced when Olivia was just three years old and moved with the remaining family to Los Angeles, California. After graduating from high school, where she fell prey to the acting bug, Olivia enrolled in Mills College in Oakland. It was while she was at Mills that she participated in the school play, "A Midsummer Night's Dream", and was spotted by Max Reinhardt. She so impressed Reinhardt that he picked her up for both his stage version and, later, the Warner Bros. film version in 1935. She, again, was so impressive that Warner executives signed her to a seven-year contract. No sooner had the ink dried on the contract than Olivia appeared in three more films: The Irish in Us (1935), Alibi Ike (1935) and Captain Blood (1935), the latter with the man with whom her career would be most closely identified: heartthrob Errol Flynn. He and Olivia starred together in eight films during their careers. In 1939 Warner Bros. loaned her to David O. Selznick for the classic Gone with the Wind (1939). Playing the sweet Melanie Hamilton, Olivia received her first nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, only losing out to one of her co-stars in the film, Hattie McDaniel. After GWTW, Olivia returned to Warner Bros. and continued to churn out films. In 1941 she played Emmy Brown in Hold Back the Dawn (1941), which resulted in her second nomination for an Oscar, this time for Best Actress. Again she lost, this time to her sister Joan for her role in Suspicion (1941). After that strong showing, Olivia now demanded better, more substantial roles than the "sweet young thing" slot into which Warners had been fitting her. The studio responded by placing her on a six-month suspension, all of the studios at the time operating under the policy that players were nothing more than property to do with as they saw fit. If that wasn't bad enough, when her contract with Warners was up, she was told that she would have to make up the lost time because of the suspension. Irate, she sued the studio, and over the length of the court battle she didn't appear in a single film. The result, however, was worth the wait. In a landmark decision, the courts said that not only did Olivia not have to make up the time, but all performers were to be limited to a seven-year contract which would include any suspensions handed down. This became known as the "De Havilland Law". Now studios couldn't treat their performers as mere cattle. Returning to screen in 1946, Olivia made up for lost time by appearing in four films, and it was one of those that finally won her the Oscar that had so long eluded her. It was To Each His Own (1946), in which she played Josephine Norris to the delight of critics and audiences alike. Olivia was the strongest performer in Hollywood for the balance of the 1940s. In 1948 she turned in another strong showing in The Snake Pit (1948) as Virginia Cunningham, a woman suffering a mental breakdown. The end result was another Oscar nomination for Best Actress, but she lost to Jane Wyman in Johnny Belinda (1948). As in the two previous years, she made only one film in 1949, but again won a nomination and the Academy Award for Best Actress in The Heiress (1949). After a three-year hiatus, Olivia returned to star in My Cousin Rachel (1952). From that point on she made few appearances on the screen, but was seen on Broadway and some television shows. Her last screen appearance was The Fifth Musketeer (1979), and her last career appearance was in the TV movie The Woman He Loved (1988) (TV). During the hoopla surrounding the 50th anniversary of GWTW in 1989, she graciously declined requests for all interviews as the only surviving member of the four main stars. Today she enjoys a quiet retirement in Paris, France.


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