Olivia de Havilland is NO MORE,
Classic Hollywood star, dies at 104
- She
won two Oscars for Best Leading Actress for
The Intimate Life of Julia Norris
and The Heiress.
- She
was a member of the cast of “Gone with
the Wind” , a film for which she was nominated by the Academy
WEB DESK BREAKING NEWS:
By Prabir Rai Chaudhuri
British-American
actress Olivia de Havilland, one of the
protagonists of the legendary Gone with
the Wind (1939) has died at 104 years of age from natural
causes in Paris, France, where she resided more than 60 years ago, according to
Its publicist Lisa Goldberg has confirmed .
De
Havilland was born in 1916 and was the
winner of two Oscars for Best Leading Actress for
The Intimate Life of Julia Norris
(1946) and The Heiress (1949). In addition, her participation in the film Gone With the Wind in the role of Melanie Hamilton earned her an
Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
Born
in Tokyo to British parents
The
daughter of a British family residing in Japan for work reasons, Olivia de
Havilland was born in Tokyo in 1916. The family returned shortly after to
England but after the marriage
separation, De Havilland moved to the United States with her mother and her sister, the also
actress Jean Fontaine , with whom she
had a tortuous personal relationship.
After
taking her first steps in the theater, director
Max Reinhardt discovered her in a performance of A
Midsummer Night's Dream and offered her
a role in the cinematrographic version of
Shakespeare's play she directed
in 1935.
Impressed
with his talent, the Warner Brothers studio offered him a seven-year contract, as was the custom at
the time .
Along
with the actor Errol Flynn, he starred in a series of adventure films, such
as Captain Blood (1935),
The Charge of the Light Brigade
(1936) and Robin of the
forests (1938), which gave him great
popularity.
Consecration
with 'Gone with the Wind'
But
his great leap came in 1939, with Gone With the Wind , in which he played the character of Melanie , which earned him the first of his
five Oscar nominations. "I was very attracted to Melanie, she was a
complex personality, compared to the heroines that I had played over and over
again," the actress would say years later.
Despite
the popularity of Gone With the
Wind and the prestige of the Oscar
nomination, de Havilland did not get the
roles he aspired to, leading to
differences with Warner Brothers, who suspended it on several occasions.
In
1943, the interpreter stated that her seven-year contract had expired, but the studio claimed that she still owed
her six months, that the actress was suspended.
De
Havilland brought the matter to court and won, which was a setback for the dominance that the major
studios at that time exercised over the
actors. However, the challenge cost him dearly since he did not star in any
movies in three years.
Olivia
de Havilland would triumphantly return
to the big screen in 1946, playing the
role of a single mother in The Intimate
Life of Julia Norris , which earned her her first Oscar. Three years later, her
portrayal of a spinster in The
Heiress would earn her her second
statuette .
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