Olivia de Havilland star of the movie Gone With the Wind has passed away at the age of 104

Her publicist, Lisa Goldberg, told CNN that Olivia de Havilland, who won two Oscars and the last star she escaped from 

Olivia de Havilland star of the movie Gone With the Wind has passed away at the age of 104

Her publicist, Lisa Goldberg, told CNN that Olivia de Havilland, who won two Oscars and the last star she escaped from 

Gone with the Wind died at the age of 104

Actress Goldberg said that the actress died on Sunday of natural causes at her home in Paris. She has lived in Paris for more than six decades.

De Havilland appeared as a star during the era of classic films  first as a romantic partner for Errol Flynn in fanatics like Captain Blood and The Adventures of Robin Hood and then Melanie Hamilton Wilkes in "Gone With the Wind (1939), considered the best movie to make money on Release when adjusted for inflation.

By the late 1940s, she became one of the best actresses on screen.

But her off-screen role in a lawsuit against her employer, Warner Bros., is perhaps her most notable achievement in Hollywood.

In 1943, de Havilland filed a lawsuit against the studio after trying to extend her seven-year contract, which was to expire. Under the studio system, actors faced comment without pay if they refused the roles, and comment time was added to their contracts.

De Havilland's ultimate victory helped transform the power from the big studios of that era to the big celebs and powerful talent agencies today.

De Havilland's girlfriend and recurring star Pete Davis wrote in her autobiography The Only Life Hollywood actors will remain in Olivia's debt forever.

De Havilland later remembered how her referee was rewarded

I was very proud of this decision, because it corrected a serious abuse of the contract system  the mandatory extension of the contract beyond its legal duration. Among the beneficiaries of the decision were the actors who fought in World War II and who, and the actress informed the Screen Actors Guild in a 1994 interview that This dispute was on hold. 

In recent years, Leto has credited the so-called de Havilland law to helping his squad, thirty seconds to Mars, in a contract dispute with its registration mark.

About three quarters of a century after this landmark ruling, de Havilland lost a lawsuit she filed against the makers of the 2017 FX series, Feud Bette and Joan.

The US Supreme Court refused to review the case after the resident failed to persuade a California appeals court that the filmmakers filmed it in a false light and had to obtain permission to 

film it in the drama

More importantly, for de Havilland, she gained the freedom to pursue better roles in award-winning films such as To Every Owners 1946 Snake Pit (1948) and  Heiress 1949 Gone With the Wind

Her first Academy Award win - for Everyone Has His Own also highlighted a often strained relationship with her famous younger sister Joan Fontaine At a party in 1947, Fontaine tried to congratulate her brother behind the scenes, but de Havilland ignored her aside, her press agent told her, I don't know why she does it when she knows how I feel

Fontaine, who also won an Academy Award, died in December 2013, at the age of 96, prompting newspaper speculation about whether the sisters had ended one of Hollywood's most famous family disputes before her death.

Fontaine said of her sister in her diary, No Bed of Roses: I regret that I do not remember any kind work from her throughout my childhood.

De Havilland rarely made any public statements about her brother. When asked about their relationship in a 2006 interview with David Thompson, she replied, How do I put it down? Well, let's just say it still stands.

At the time of Fontaine's death, she issued a statement saying that she was shocked and saddened

Shakespeare, then the fanatics

Olivia Marie de Havilland was born on July 1, 1916 in Tokyo to British parents. Olivia and Joan were often ill in their childhood, and their mother decided to return to England for treatment. A stopover in San Francisco led the trio to settle in Saratoga, California. Eventually, the girls' parents separated, and their mother married.

De Havilland picked up the acting error in the production of the school "Alice in Wonderland". Her dedication to the plane challenged her mother-in-law's warning against appearing in plays and leaving home early before graduating from high school.

She got her first professional break as a study of Gloria Stewart (later Elderly Rose in the movie "Titanic") in Max Reinhardt's production of "Midsummer Night's Dream." After Stewart withdrew, de Havilland won the role of Hermia and made her debut in Shakespeare. The rise of Hollywood Powell led to a contract with Warner Brothers and a 1935 version of the play.

But another movie in 1935 made her a star, at the age of 19, ensuring her immortality as part of a fantastic screen team. "Captain Blood" was the first of eight films that combined de Havilland with Errol Flynn.

De Havilland later said that her faltering colleague was her first love but the timing was never correct, especially for Flynn Prodigal.

She told the New York Times in 1976: "I was so impressed with him. In the end, he got one of me. He was bound to fall in love with him. He was naughty and very charming."

Flynn probably set the tone for their relationship by playing practical jokes on his co-star, even hiding a snake once in her underwear before changing her outfit.

Flynn admits in his autobiography, "My Wicked, Wicked Ways", "I slowly penetrated my slow mind that such little dumps were not the way to any girl's heart. But it was too late. I couldn't soften it." He had fallen into de Havilland with their second film, "The Charge of the Light Brigade" (1936).

While films with Flynn were popular, roles were rarely difficult. The actress is starting to feel a sense of siege playing beautiful but still heroines.

Memories of Melanie

When Margaret Mitchell's "Gone With the Wind" became a bestseller in the late 1930s, every actress seemed to be competing for the role of Scarlett O'Hara, the selfish heroine. But not de Havilland. She had her eyes on Melanie, Scarlett's sweet and sympathetic sister.

The actress told the New York Times in 2004: "Scarlett never cared about me. She was a professional girl, however, and I was a professional girl. Melanie was something else. She is a happy woman, she is a loving woman, and you cannot say Scarlett was a love ".

De Havilland's only hurdle was her contract with Warner Bros., who was reluctant to lend it to producer David O. Selznick for the film.

De Havilland, who was in her early twenties, developed a strategy on how to win the part, and decided to present her case to the manager's wife. During tea, the actress pleaded with Ann Warner to intervene on her behalf. Jack's surrendered. Warner Finally, de Havilland headed to Selznick International to present what many in Hollywood thought would be a disaster.

But the star later told writer Gavin Lambert that she always knew the movie would be "something special, something that will last forever."

Melanie was the first one to de Havilland roles to diminish her appeal. She also revealed her affinity for playing good girls. gone with the wind cast

"I think they are more challenging. Because the general concept is that if you are good, you are not very interesting. This concept is annoying me frankly," she told The Times in 2004.

De Havilland got her first five Oscars nominations with best gesture auxiliary actress for "Gone With the Wind", but lost to superstar Hattie McDaniel, who became the first African American to win an Academy Award.

Studio battle, then career peak

She was not returning to Warner Bros. After "Gone With the Wind" is easy. De Havilland discovered that she would play a supporting role in a movie with Flynn. Pete Davis was the lead lady in "The Private Life of Elizabeth and Essex", with de Havilland shortened to the prospective Queen.

It was difficult to get good roles for actresses in the studio known for his powerful and masculine image, and Davis roosted roost as his only major female star.

De Havilland started challenging Warner Bros., rejecting parts of the films she disliked and took a comment.

At one bright spot, she recorded the best nomination for another lending actress, "Hold Back the Dawn" (1941), as a school teacher falls in love with European refugee Charles Boyer as he struggles to enter the United States. Again, this time she lost to her sister, Fontaine, who won the "doubt" award (1941).

De Havilland was ready to move forward when her contract expired. However, Warner Bros. had Other ideas, covered in 25 weeks from being suspended to the contract.

She decided to take legal action, a risky move that would keep her off the screen for nearly three years. If she loses the lawsuit, her career in Hollywood may end.

"I had no choice but to fight," she remembers the 2006 Los Angeles Times actress.

The District Two California Appeals Court upheld a lower court ruling in favor of de Havilland, and found that the personal service contract was limited to a seven-year calendar year.

Studio chief Warner admitted in his autobiography that de Havilland had "licked him". He pointed out that his former star "had a brain like a computer hidden behind those brown, visible eyes."

De Havilland has now managed to paint her career. Within three years, she won two Academy Awards.

She exhibited a new variety in "Everyone Has His Own", moving in memories of the past from an unmarried young mother who loses her son to a middle-aged businesswoman. The movie "Dark Mirror" from 1946 also featured de Havilland in twin roles as Identical Twins - one good and the other a troubled killer.

But she came to herself as an actress with "The Snake Pit" and "The Heessess".

The first - a look at a woman with a mental illness - appears today, but critics in 1948 praised the film and actress for tackling this serious topic.

De Havilland reached the climax of her career in the movie The Heiress by William Wheeler, where Catherine Sloper was an embarrassing regular girl, who was exploited by the wealthman because of her inheritance. She becomes a exhausted woman who runs tables on a cold, unloved father (Ralph Richardson) and addresses her (Montgomery Clift).

This adaptation of a play based on "Washington Square" by Henry James won de Havilland the second Academy Award for Best Actress.

Later years

De Havilland's life inevitably began to cool down in the 1950s and 1960s, although she still plays unforgettable roles in "My Cousin Rachel" (1952) and "Light in the Piazza" (1962). She collaborated with Davis in "Hash, Hush, Sweet Charlotte" (1964), in follow-up to "What Happened to Baby Jane?" (1962). In a surprising development, de Havilland played the evil role.

She also appeared on Broadway in "Romeo and Juliet" and "Candida" and "The Gift of Time" with Henry Fonda. In the 1970s and 1980s, she played supporting roles in disaster films such as "Airport 77" (1977) and "The Swarm" (1978) and on television in "The Roots: Next Generations", the 1979 sequel to Historical Series. She received Emmy nomination for Best Supporting Actress in a Short or Special Series for one of her last roles, "Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna" (1986).

She retired from acting in the late 1980s but continued to appear publicly and earn honors for her long career, including the National Medal of Arts in 2008 for "her accomplishments and contributions to American culture as an actress" and "French Legion of Honor" in 2010.

In June 2017, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II de Havilland made a "Drama Services" lady - two weeks shy of her 101st birthday.

The star was known for dating several prominent singles at the height of Hollywood, including Howard Hughes, James Stewart and director John Houston. She was married and divorced twice - first by Marcus Goodrich then Paris Match Editor Pierre Galante. Her son Benjamin Goodrich died in 1991 due to complications from Hodgkin's lymphoma. The daughter Giselle Gallant is a journalist.

News accounts often reported that the actress was working on a long-awaited autobiography, but nothing appeared during her life. She wrote a diary in 1962 about her life in France entitled "Every Frenchman Has One."

De Havilland practically all of her contemporaries survived from the golden age of movies  until writing a tribute to Mickey Ronnie the youngest of the time when he passed away in April 2014. Ironically, the sick Melanie died near the end of "Gone With the Wind," but the actress who played her role with the co-stars who They lived for a long time Clark Gable, Vivian Lee, Leslie Howard and McDaniel.

I asked Steel Magnolia to interview the Screen Actors Guild, "I was asked two decades ago to explain her longevity, I don't understand the question.

I am only 78 years old 

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