Olivia de Havilland - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dame Olivia de Havilland | |
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Born | Olivia Mary de Havilland July 1, 1916 |
Died | July 26, 2020 | (aged 104)
Nationality | British-American |
Years active | 1935 - 2009 |
Spouse(s) | Marcus Goodrich (1946-1953) Pierre Galante (1955-1979) |
Children | 2 |
Relatives | Joan Fontaine (sister, dead) |
Awards | Academy Award for Best Actress 1946 To Each His Own 1949 The Heiress Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama 1950 The Heiress Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Miniseries 1987 Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress 1948 The Snake Pit 1949 The Heiress |
Dame Olivia Mary de Havilland DBE (July 1, 1916 – July 26, 2020) was a British-American actress. She was one of two only living stars of Gone with the Wind, but there are also actors with smaller roles in said movie who are still alive. She has won the Academy Award two times. She is the sister of late actress Joan Fontaine, who also won the Academy Award. They did not get along ever since they were children.
De Havilland was born in Tokyo to British parents. She became an American citizen in 1941. She lived in Paris from 1956 until her death in 2020.
De Havilland died on July 26, 2020 at her home in Paris at the age of 104.[1]
Films
[change | change source]- Alibi Ike (1935)
- The Irish in Us (1935)
- A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)
- Captain Blood (1935)
- A Dream Comes True (1935 - short subject)
- Anthony Adverse (1936)
- The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)
- The Making of a Great Motion Picture (1936 - short subject)
- Call It a Day (1937)
- It's Love I'm After (1937)
- The Great Garrick (1937)
- Gold Is Where You Find It (1938)
- The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
- Four's a Crowd (1938)
- Hard to Get (1938)
- A Day at Santa Anita (1939 - short subject)
- Wings of the Navy (1939)
- Dodge City (1939)
- The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)
- Gone with the Wind (1939)
- Raffles (1940)
- My Love Came Back (1940)
- Santa Fe Trail (1940)
- The Strawberry Blonde (1941)
- Hold Back the Dawn (1941)
- They Died with Their Boots On (1941)
- The Male Animal (1942)
- In This Our Life (1942)
- Show Business at War (1943 - short subject)
- Princess O'Rourke (1943)
- Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
- Government Girl (1943)
- To Each His Own (1946)
- Devotion (1946)
- The Well-Groomed Bride (1946)
- The Dark Mirror (1946)
- The Snake Pit (1948)
- The Heiress (1949)
- My Cousin Rachel (1952)
- That Lady (1955)
- Not as a Stranger (1955)
- The Ambassador's Daughter (1956)
- The Proud Rebel (1958)
- Libel (1959)
- The Light in the Piazza (1962)
- Lady in a Cage (1964)
- Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)
- The Adventurers (1970)
- Pope Joan (1972)
- Airport '77 (1977)
- The Swarm (1978)
- The Fifth Musketeer (1979)
References
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Olivia de Havilland.
- Olivia de Havilland on IMDb
- Olivia de Havilland at the TCM Movie Database
- Olivia de Havilland at the Internet Broadway Database
- Long obituary at https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/olivia-de-havilland-dead-gone-wind-adventures-robin-hood-star-was-104-720040
- 1995 interview