She largely stayed out of the public eye, except when she sued the makers of the FX miniseries Feud for allegedly misrepresenting her in 2017, and appealed the case all the way to the Supreme Court (which declined to take it up).īack when she was 18, at the screen test with Errol Flynn that would launch her career as a love interest and beyond, de Havilland remembered Flynn turning to her: "He said to me, 'What do you want out of life?' And I said, 'I would like respect for difficult work well done.' " She married, had a son, divorced and when she was 37, in 1953, she left Hollywood for Paris, where she lived the rest of her life. 115 min TVPG Drama Feature Film Catherine (Olivia de Havilland), a young woman who stands to inherit her father's large fortune, falls in love when she meets Morris (Montgomery Clift), who gives her the love and affection her father doesn't, and which she desperately needs. By the '50s, she appeared in films less and less. This is despite the fact that most of de Havilland's adult life was spent far from Hollywood. "I think a lot of Hollywood women stars are pitted against each other, but they were estranged their whole adult lives." "The biographers have a field day with the rivalry," White says. Sloper intervenes in his daughter’s love life and threatens to disinherit her from the rest of her. Under his attention, she blossoms into a confident, beautiful woman, and the two fall in love. Fontaine wrote a tell-all memoir portraying de Havilland as a cruel older sister, and de Havilland always told interviewers that the topic was absolutely off limits. Enter Morris Townsend (Montgomery Clift), a handsome young swain, who appears to genuinely appreciate Catherine for who she is. Legend has it, de Havilland never congratulated her sister for her win and they barely spoke again. The Two-Way Joan Fontaine, 'Coolly Beautiful' Oscar Winner, Diesīut de Havilland lost several other key Oscars in her career: She didn't win one for Melanie in Gone With the Wind, and in 1942 she lost best actress to her sister, Joan Fontaine. Stuart will not be able to go on opening night.' Reinhardt turned to me and he said, 'You will play the part.' " In a 2006 interview for the Academy of Achievement, de Havilland recalled what happened next: " said to Reinhardt, 'We're very sorry, but Ms.
Gloria Stuart was cast as Hermia, but five days before opening night at the Hollywood Bowl, Stuart's agent came to a rehearsal. She was in a local production of A Midsummer Night's Dream in Northern California, where she grew up, and that little part earned her an understudy spot in legendary director Max Reinhardt's production of the play. "She brings that sort of plain look to all of her viewers, allowing them to sort of see a non-glamorous person, like perhaps themselves, as the heroine in their own stories."ĭe Havilland got to that iconic role thanks to a lucky break when she was only 17. "Olivia really was perfect for Melanie," White says. Patricia White, a professor of film studies at Swarthmore College, says de Havilland's Melanie was like a heroine from an 18th-century British novel: full of composure, with an unflashy beauty. But of all her good-girl roles, she's best remembered for Melanie, Scarlett O'Hara's sweet foil in Gone With the Wind. She died at her home in Paris of natural causes, her publicist, Lisa Goldberg, confirmed.ĭe Havilland was known for playing the good girl - pure hearted, pensive, deeply emotive - during Hollywood's golden era. The film went on to earn Olivia the second of her two Best Actress Oscars and has become. Cast: Olivia de Havilland, Montgomery Clift, Ralph Richardson. She was nominated for Best Supporting Actress in 1940, though she lost to her co-star Hattie McDaniel, who became the first Black actor to win an Oscar for her role as Mammy.Olivia de Havilland, who starred in dozens of movies through the 1930s and '40s, has died at age 104. The Heiress (1949) (movie): A young naive woman falls for a handsome young man who her.
Though Melanie is supposed to be a softer, wiser foil for the impetuous and headstrong Scarlett O’Hara (Vivien Leigh), in de Havilland’s hands, she exuded complexity and depth that hinted at hidden layers beyond her sweet smile. De Havilland chafed against the stereotype, although her breakthrough role, as Melanie Hamilton Wilkes in 1939’s Gone With the Wind, proved that she could make even the most simpering goody-two-shoes into a three-dimensional character, with grit and a backbone of steel underneath all those frills. In order to take the role, she signed a seven-year contract with Warner Bros., which immediately typecast the 5’3 actress with the kind of face that screams Snow White, as an innocent ingenue. De Havilland made her on-screen debut at the age of 18, starring as Hermia in Max Reinhardt’s adaptation of A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream in 1935.
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