Olivia de Havilland
Breetish-American actress / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Olivia Mary de Havilland, DBE (born Julie 1, 1916; deed Julie 26, 2020[1]) wis an Breetish-American actress whase career spanned frae 1935 tae 1988. She kythed in fowerty-nine featur films, an wis ane o the leadin film stars in the gowden age o Clessical Hollywood. She is best kent for her early screen performances in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) an Gone with the Wind (1939), an her later awaird-winnin performances in To Each His Own (1946), The Snake Pit (1948), an The Heiress (1949). Born in Tokyo tae Inglis parents, de Havilland an her younger sister, actress Joan Fontaine, flittit tae Californie in 1919. Thay war raised bi thair mither Lilian, a umwhile stage actress wha taucht them dramatic airt, muisic, an elocution. De Havilland made her actin debut in amateur theatre in Alice in Wonderland an later appeared in a local production o Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, that led tae her playin Hermia in Max Reinhardt's stage production o the same play an a movie contract wi Warner Bros.
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Born | Olivia Mary de Havilland 1 Julie 1916(1916-07-01) Tokyo, Japan |
Dee'd | 26 Julie 2020(2020-07-26) (aged 104) Paris, Fraunce |
Restin place | Tokyo |
Ither names | Livvie |
Thrift | Actress |
Years active | 1935–1989 |
Releegion | Episcopalian |
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Kin | Joan Fontaine (sister, 1917–2013) |
Awairds | See ablo |
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De Havilland made her screen debut in Reinhardt's A Midsummer Night's Dream in 1935. She began her career playin demure ingénues alang wi popular leadin men, includin Errol Flynn, wi wham she made aicht films. Thay became ane o Hollywood's maist popular romantic on-screen pairins. She achieved her initial popularity in romantic comedy films, lik The Great Garrick (1937), an in Westerns, sic as Dodge City (1939). Her naitural beauty an primsie actin style made her parteecularly feckfu in historical period dramas, lik Anthony Adverse (1936), an romantic dramas, lik Hold Back the Dawn (1941). In her later career, she wis maist sonsie in drama films, lik Light in the Piazza (1962), an unglamorous roles in psychological dramas includin Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964).
As well as her film career, de Havilland continued her wirk in the theatre, appearin three times on Broadway, in Romeo and Juliet (1951), Candida (1952), an A Gift of Time (1962). She wirkit in telly an aw, appearin in the sonsie miniseries, Roots: The Next Generations (1979), an telly featur films, sic as Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna, for whilk she received a Primetime Emmy Award. Outthrou her film career, de Havilland wan twa Academy Awards, twa Gowden Globe Awairds, twa New York Film Critics Circle Awairds, the National Board of Review Award for Best Actress, an the Venice Film Festival Volpi Cup. For her contreibutions tae the motion pictur industry, she received a starn on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. For her lifetime contreibution tae the arts, she received the Naitional Medal o Airts frae Preses George W. Bush, an wis appyntit a Chevalier o the Légion d'honneur bi French Preses Nicolas Sarkozy.
Efter romantic relationships wi Howard Hughes, James Stewart, an John Huston, de Havilland mairit author Marcus Goodrich, wi wham she haed a son, Benjamin. Follaein her divorce frae Goodrich in 1953, she flittit tae Paris an mairit Pierre Galante, an executive eeditor for the French jurnal Paris Match, wi wham she haed a dauchter, Gisèle. In 1962 she published Every Frenchman Has One, an accoont o her life in Fraunce. De Havilland an Joan Fontaine are the anly siblings tae hae wan Academy Awairds in a lead actin category. A lifelang rivalry atween the twa resultit in an estrangement that lestit ower three decade. She haes steyed in Paris syne 1956, an celebrate her 100t birthday on Julie 1, 2016.[2] On 26 Julie 2020, it wis propaled that de Havilland haed deed the previous day at her hame in Paris, aged 104.