Video: Happy Birthday Olivia de Havilland: Melanie from Gone With the Wind celebrates 102 years of her birthday
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
On July 1, 2018, the last of the actresses who starred in the legendary film "Gone with the Wind", Olivia de Havilland, celebrates its 102-year birthday. She played the role of the unforgettable Melanie Hamilton.
The great actress of the 1930s - 1940s was born into a family of English aristocrats in Tokyo and lived in Paris for over 60 years. Vivien Leigh, Greta Garbo, Katharine Hepburn - her great contemporaries and colleagues have long passed away. And Olivia de Havilland lived to be 100 and became the actress who ended the age of old Hollywood. The films in which she shone - the films "The Adventures of Robin Hood" (1938), "To Each His Own" (1946) and "Heiress" (1949) - have become true classics of cinema, and the last time Olivia appeared on the screen in 1988 in the film " The woman he loved. " Olivia de Havilland has two Oscars in her arsenal.
Today, Parisian Olivia de Havilland willingly talks about the past, recalling how Errol Flynn shared his love experiences with her and sought her support, how Ernest Hemingway invited her to horseback riding, and Vivien Leigh asked to convey letters to her beloved Laurence Olivier. Olivia also remembers how she tried to separate Bette Davis, who fought with her "sworn friend" Joan Crawford. According to her, they were actresses of great talent. De Havilland remembers the "dream factory" completely different. In her opinion, Hollywood has lost both dreams and artistic value, turning into a conveyor belt.
Throughout her long and difficult life, Olivia de Havilland was able to carry an amazing sense of self-esteem. And this despite the death of her beloved husband and son. Her younger sister, the outstanding actress Joan Fontaine, passed away three years ago. The story of the rivalry of the sisters is a plot worthy of an exciting novel. True, Joan was fighting the war, and Olivia did not react to these attacks, as befits a real lady.
Happy birthday lovely Olivia! Live Long!
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