'Gone With the Wind' star Olivia de
Havilland dies at 104
Entertainment Weekly,
by
Keith Staskiewicz
Original Article
Posted By: PageTurner,
7/26/2020 12:48:18 PM
Olivia de Havilland, classic star of Hollywood and two-time winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress, died peacefully in her sleep at her home in Paris, France on Saturday. She was 104.
De Havilland built her legacy — one of strong, beguiling characters in difficult circumstances — with her own hands. She rose to prominence in the 1930s as Errol Flynn’s imperiled lass in a series of swashbuckling adventure films like Captain Blood and The Adventures of Robin Hood. Typically, she’d be bound up and carried away, only to be saved by the hero and ensnared once more in the ties of matrimony.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
bamapreacher 7/26/2020 12:50:54 PM (No. 491093)
Very sad, classy lady. And so the cast of GWTW passes into history.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
marbles 7/26/2020 12:56:59 PM (No. 491101)
Rest In Peace, Livy.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
droopydog 7/26/2020 12:59:36 PM (No. 491105)
I think she is pretty much the last of the "golden age" stars...RIP Ms. DeHavilland.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Kate318 7/26/2020 1:01:00 PM (No. 491106)
I remember reading an article about her 5 yrs ago, in which she said she wanted to make it to 100. Bravo, Ms De Havilland. Thank you for sharing your time here with us. You gave so many so much pleasure. Rest in God.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
berthabutt 7/26/2020 1:02:34 PM (No. 491108)
Loved the stories of their friendship told by the late Robert Osborne of TCM channel. What a reunion in heaven!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
HotRod 7/26/2020 1:08:21 PM (No. 491118)
RIP. She was one of the most beautiful women ever to grace the entertainment industry. Smart and likeable too.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Trump'sCousin 7/26/2020 1:09:24 PM (No. 491119)
Howie Carr must be very sad today. She was his crush as a kid.
She was lovely.
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udanja99 7/26/2020 1:09:40 PM (No. 491120)
RIP, Melanie. I hope that she wasn’t lucid enough in the last few weeks to know that GWTW has been torched by the insane left.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
jalo1951 7/26/2020 1:15:40 PM (No. 491125)
Love GWTW. Sorry. but I am not PC. I have read the book 30 times easily watch the movie dozens upon dozens of times. While she was attractive she was not a classic beauty. I believe that allowed her to play many more parts then some of the more glamorous ladies. (Bette Davis and Joan Crawford were in that same boat and look at the films they made.) While she made a great Mellie one of my favorites was "The Heiress" with Montgomery Clift. Their was a reason why she won the Academy Award that year. RIP lovely lady. You had a long, fruitful, exciting life and I certainly appreciated your talent. PS And by the way, GWTW did not make me think that slavery was a good thing or sympathize with the South. I'm more intelligent than the dems give me credit for.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 7/26/2020 1:27:36 PM (No. 491140)
Rest in Peace, Olivia. The last of GWTW. 104. Wow.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
StormCnter 7/26/2020 1:32:09 PM (No. 491151)
I have read that Errol Flynn carried a torch for her for years but that she considered him not too bright.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
zzzghy 7/26/2020 1:39:36 PM (No. 491163)
104? That's a grand slam win if you can afford it. In Paris of all locales.
I can't see more than ten years over the horizon and that's more than enough.
I turned 64 last week and I know what's coming.
Olivia de Havilland timed her exit perfectly. You win, beautiful.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 7/26/2020 1:55:02 PM (No. 491174)
Rest in peace sweet lady. She was good in GWTW, but spectacular in "The Heiress" where her performance ran the gamut - from tentative and fearful, to cold and hard when standing up to her domineering father and later her gold-digging suitor. Her father (played by Ralph Richardson) and Morris Townsend (played by Montgomery Clift) underestimated her and as a result, didn't know what hit them when she turned on them.
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I'm going to watch GWTW this week in her honor. My favorite movie, RIP Ms. Mellie
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
LadyHen 7/26/2020 2:18:26 PM (No. 491196)
Ah.. we knew she could not live forever but I think we hoped. Goodness, her passing is hard. Just about the last of the classic Hollywood stars. There will never be another time like that.
My favorite movie she did was the Heiress directed by the great William Wyler, based on the play of the same name and before that the novel Washington Square by Henry James. Beautiful, brutal, gentle and then then horrifying. She and Ralph Richardson, another amazing actor, they played off each other perfectly. That final scene where she walks up the stair...never fails to give me goosebumps. Sheer perfection in her craft.
Memory Eternal great lady. No one today can touch you, no one.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
fhancock 7/26/2020 2:29:39 PM (No. 491209)
Beautiful, talented,and classy....RIP....Mrs Wilkes
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
TXknitter 7/26/2020 2:42:37 PM (No. 491225)
Oh #9, I am with you. Who couldn’t love Melanie Hamilton but her role in “The Heiress” was just magnificent. Every single time I see it, I am taken once again that she blew Montgomery Clift off the screen. As Clift was pretty dang good, that was something.
She absolutely adored France and everything about it for all the many years she lived there. How blessed they were to have her.
My condolences to her children and dear friends.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
SweetSweetback 7/26/2020 3:15:55 PM (No. 491251)
When Hollywood was glamour. The DeHavilland Rule is still landmark even to this day. Brave woman; on the Mt Rushmore of truly great silver screen actresses.
RIP
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
snakeoil 7/26/2020 3:38:54 PM (No. 491269)
My favorite Olivia de Havilland movie is Robin Hood. Love it when Robin and Maid Marian meet the first time and she says something snarky to Robin and he replies "Tis a pithy her manners don't match her looks." Can't even imagine making it to 104. No tears. RIP.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
nina584 7/26/2020 4:03:47 PM (No. 491283)
Real Hollywood royalty not like we have today. RIP
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Timber Queen 7/26/2020 4:13:03 PM (No. 491291)
#9 & #17 - You already wrote my comment. I learned so much from watching her after school on the Million Dollar Movies. That's where I first saw The Heiress and Snake Pit, and so many of her movies. She was a role model on and off the screen. As my mother would say, "A darling and charming lady." God rest her shining soul.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
YorkieMom 7/26/2020 6:51:03 PM (No. 491414)
Agree with all of the posters praising this remarkable actress in her role in “The “Heiress.” She was classy to the end. RIP and condolences to her family and friends.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
lakerman1 7/26/2020 6:51:32 PM (No. 491415)
Yet she somehow blocked her sister from using the family name, and apparently was jealous of her sister's acting.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Faithfully 7/26/2020 7:06:02 PM (No. 491427)
Her persona was one that young girls wanted to emmulate. Compare her to the famous actresses of today. Yikes!
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 7/26/2020 7:10:11 PM (No. 491429)
When stars were really stars....... we don’t have that problem anymore.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Omen55 7/26/2020 7:52:44 PM (No. 491445)
The last real movie star from The Golden Era when they acted like Americans.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 7/26/2020 10:27:57 PM (No. 491540)
Olivia was one of the three greatest screen actresses ever - - along with Bette Davis and Barbara Stanwyck.
Drama, comedy, adventure - - she could do it all - - and still be feminine and beautiful.
An all-time great - - always to be remembered.
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I wanted her to live forever. So classy and beautiful - a great lady. Magnificent performance in Gone with the Wind. RIP