Olivia de Havilland of 'Gone with the Wind' dies at 104

Olivia de Havilland, who died in Paris at the age of 104, was one of the last links with Hollywood’s golden era.

“If you can be dignified in an all-star epic about insect apocalypse – which she was – you can be dignified anywhere and everywhere,” wrote film critic Nigel Andrews in the Financial Times in 2016, referring to her part in “The Swarm” .When a silver-haired de Havilland presented an award at the 2003 Oscars ceremony, she was greeted with a standing ovation lasting nearly four minutes as modern Hollywood paid homage to one of the enduring emblems of its past glory.

And in a shocking move for the era, she sued the studios, demanding release from a seven-year contract. Having been blacklisted for three years and unable to work, her career was revived by the legal victory, bringing her the freedom to pick her roles. Neither actress ever spoke publicly about their feud and their careers shuttled along in frosty parallel.

In the 1970s and 1980s she shuttled back to the US for film and television work, but she progressively retreated from the limelight.“I thought that I had made great progress with my French when a grande dame said to me one day: ‘You speak French very well Olivia, but you have a slight Yugoslav accent.’ I suppose there were not parts in French movies for actresses with Yugoslav accents,” she told The Irish Independent.

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