Olivia de Havilland, the Melanie Wilkes whose unselfishness
contrasted to the petulant Scarlett’s behavior in the 1939 classic “Gone With
the Wind,” is still alive at the age of 100.
She’s celebrating with dinner and drinks with “dear, dear” friends
in Paris, where she’s lived for six decades after marrying a Frenchman.
Miss de Havilland was born in Japan to English parents, who reared
her in Los Angeles where she became an American citizen. She was in films for
eight decades, but “Gone With the Wind” brought her an Oscar and a permanent
place in the memories of moviegoers.
Not even eight on-screen romances with swashbuckling Errol Flynn
could top that.
She may have been sweet and loving in “Gone With the Wind” but she
took on and beat Warner Brothers in a 1944 lawsuit that forced movie studios to
limit their strangehold on actors to seven years, instead of ad infinitum.
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