Celebrity Death: Olivia de Havilland (104)

[ucanthanzalthetruth]

Oldest living academy award winner, Gone With the Wind star who had a 50 + year feud with her sister

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[Chili]

Will always think of her starring with Errol Flynn in several films.

Oldest living academy award winner, Gone With the Wind star who had a 50 + year feud with her sister

Just finished a book on Howard Hughes and he may have been a part of that feud.

Sad to hear, she was one of the last great stars left from the early talking films.

 

[Rpenny]

Will always think of her starring with Errol Flynn in several films.



Just finished a book on Howard Hughes and he may have been a part of that feud.

Sad to hear, she was one of the last great stars left from the early talking films.

Actually the feud started in the childhood and is linked to their battles to get their parents attention. According to Olivia, Joan tried to killer when Joan was 9

https://www.biography.com/news/olivia-de-havilland-joan-fontaine-sisters-feud

 

[Chili]

Actually the feud started in the childhood and is linked to their battles to get their parents attention. According to Olivia, Joan tried to killer when Joan was 9

https://www.biography.com/news/olivia-de-havilland-joan-fontaine-sisters-feud

For sure it was probably multi layered, going way back. In the book I read Olivia was going out with HH, when he proposed to Joan (who was engaged to someone else). Olivia was not impressed when her sister told her about it. There was a rivalry between the two, the Hughes angle was another chapter.

Edit: From Howard Hughes: The Untold Story/Broeske & Brown

 

[archangel2]

For those interested. Their is still one actor from Gone with the wind alive. Mickey Kuhn who Olivia's son in the movie

 

[kihei]

Pretty good innings. I had no idea that she was still alive. Gone with the Wind was the monolith that put in the shadows the rest of her career, but she was good in a lot of movies, comedies, romances, even a few Westerns.

 

[saluki]

I don't know how recent the pictures of her are, but she's the best looking 100+ year old I've ever seen.

RIP congrats on a full life

 

[ucanthanzalthetruth]

I don't know how recent the pictures of her are, but she's the best looking 100+ year old I've ever seen.

RIP congrats on a full life

This was on her 104th birthday a month ago

 

[Bures Elbow]

The version of Robin Hood with her as Lady Mariam and Errol Flynn as Robin is still my favourite, and a guilty pleasure.