Olivia de Havilland

[dhermann1]

I was just clicking on a news site, when I saw a fragment of a headline "Olivia de Havilland . . . " and I thought, "Oh, no! Did she die?" No! She didn't die! At age 94 she was honored by the president of France. She still looks smashing at 94.
God bless her. One of my favorite people in the universe.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129755749

 

[Tomasso]

Here's Olivia....... 71 years ago.

 

[Widebrim]

^^Boy, does she look like a lost soul! And what a low cut blouse...

 

[Tomasso]

Well, she's 23 years old, making the biggest film in history.......can you really blame her deer in the headlights look....

 

[BinkieBaumont]

"How sad that she and her sister Joan Fontaine, had a falling out, years ago and never spoke to each other again"

Both Olivia and Joan were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in 1942. Joan won first for her role in Alfred Hitchcock's Suspicion (1941) over Olivia's nomination for Hold Back the Dawn (1941). Joan "felt guilty about winning; given her lack of obsessive career drive...".


At the awards ceremony, Joan stepped forward to collect her award, she pointedly rejected Olivia's attempts at congratulating her and that Olivia was both offended and embarrassed by her behavior. Several years later, Olivia would remember the slight and exact her own by brushing past Joan, who was waiting with her hand extended, because Olivia had allegedly taken offense at a comment Joan had made about Olivia's then-husband

Olivia's relationship with Joan continued to deteriorate after the two incidents. Higham has stated that this was the near final straw for what would become a lifelong feud, but the sisters did not completely stop speaking until 1975.

According to Joan, Olivia did not invite her to a memorial service for their mother, who had recently died. Olivia claims she told Joan, but that Joan had brushed her off, claiming that she was too busy to attend.

Higham records that Joan has an estranged relationship with her own daughters as well, possibly because she discovered that they were secretly maintaining a relationship with their aunt Olivia.


Both sisters have refused to comment publicly about their feud and dysfunctional family relationship, though in an interview with John Kobal, Fontaine stated categorically that the so-called rivalry was a pure hoax, cooked up by the studio publicity hounds

 

[Roxy]

1935

 

[Widebrim]

1935

In Captain Blood. Beautiful...