OT - Olivia De Havilland is Gone...RIP
I know, I know, most here probably do not her or of her, but she was/is an icon for most of your parents/grandparents.
Last surviving member of Gone With the Wind.
She was Maid Marian in the classic 1930's Robin Hood film with Errol Flynn.
104.
Now that's an accomplishment.
Last surviving cast member of GWTW.
She definitely used all the run way. A beautiful woman. RIP
And retired for 60 years in Paris
She had a great career and making it to 104 is pretty impressive, but why aren't they giving us a cause of death? What is the media hiding from us!?!?!!?
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Tragic.
Maybe she was hanging out with Jim Morrison, and they need to find some empty space in the same cemetery?
Always loved her movies. Starred with Errol Flynn in several classics including Captain Blood made nearly 80 years ago in 1935! That number alone is amazing.
85 years ago
Good catch. Made in 1935.
Don't be a math nerd or we will "remember, remember the 5th of November."
double post. Quick comment: only 18 or 19 when she made Captain Blood. Couldn’t even imagine an 18 year old actress today pulling that off
I knew she and Flynn were nuts about each other off-screen, but their feelings were never "consummated" (a great antiquated term for "they never did it.") Flynn was still married and that was a line Olivia wouldn't cross.
What I didn't know was that she and James Stewart had a two-year relationship that ended just before WWII. In 1946 she was offered the role of Mary Bailey in "It's A Wonderful Life," but that would have meant working opposite Stewart. She felt that would have been too awkward, so she turned it down.
Didn't know until I read more about her that her greatest achievement may have been suing her studio to change the terms of her contract. Her victory opened it up for all of the actors of her time as well as the ones that followed.
She basically pulled a Curt Flood.
One of the greats.
Frankly my dear, RIP
Great actress and a truly lovely woman in every sense by all accounts. Her sister, Joan Fontaine was also an actress of some note.
Sad that they did not like each other and were distant their entire lives. Life is too short to be like that.
Great actress. Love watching her movies. Captain Blood, Gone With the Wind, Robin Hood and many others.
I read that her last wish was to be cremated and have her ashes spread into the air.
I’ll show my self out.
She was great in so many movies. Excellent actress.
The De Havilland law challenging of the Warner Brothers studios and won young artists the right to have freedoms from their young typecast careers as deemed by the studio who owned their rights. Johnny Carson won major concessions from NBC, when threatened to work for ABC under this law.
As with Ted Lindsay and Curt Flood, many of the modern entertainers/athletes owe in part their financial and work freedoms to these worker's rights pioneers.
She played Melanie in Gone with the Wind. Several other classic movies as well. 104 is a very long life for being a smoker, though I think she quit later in life.
Think she quit smoking too, not sure. Still some people just have amazing constitutions. My favorite woman of all time to whom I was not related lived to the age of 97. I visited her 6 days before she died at a senior living facility. When she wasn't in her room, I checked outside in the courtyard, sure enough she was outside, having a smoke, and this was after dark and it was about 25 degrees out.
May she RIP. I love Gone with the Wind. Great movie.
Tragic is dying in your 20’s or 30’s...living to 104 is an amazing accomplishment.