Movie stars I loved as a kid - Olivia de Havilland
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Olivia Mary de Havilland (born July 1, 1916):


Olivia Mary de Havilland (born July 1, 1916):
De Havilland is one of the last surviving female stars from 1930s Hollywood. She is also the last living lead from Gone with the Wind.
De Havilland was born in Tokyo, Japan. Her mother, Lilian Augusta Ruse (1886-1975), was an actress known by her stage name Lilian Fontaine, and her father, Walter Augustus de Havilland (1872-1968), was a British patent attorney with a practice in Japan. Her younger sister is actress Joan Fontaine (born 1917), from whom she has been estranged for many decades, not speaking at all since 1975.
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After appearing with Joe E. Brown in Alibi Ike and James Cagney in The Irish in Us, de Havilland played opposite Errol Flynn in such highly popular films as Captain Blood, The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936), and as Maid Marian to Flynn's Robin Hood in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938). Overall, she starred opposite Flynn in eight films. She played Melanie Hamilton Wilkes in Gone with the Wind (1939) and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance.
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In 1941, De Havilland became a naturalized citizen of the United States.
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She won Best Actress Academy Awards for To Each His Own (1946) and The Heiress (1949).
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She has lived in Paris for the past 40 years.
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On November 17, 2008, at the age of 92, she received the National Medal for the Arts from President George W. Bush.


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