There are few veterans of Hollywood’s Golden Age who are still around, much less still making headlines. ButShe’s part of the current furor over “Gone With the Wind,” since she is the only surviving star of the 1939 epic. In 2017, she also sued FX Networks over her depiction in the miniseries “Feud: Bette and Joan,” from exec producer Ryan Murphy. After a series of appeals, the court ultimately decided against de Havilland.
WB put her in such films as “Captain Blood” and “The Adventures of Robin Hood,” both with Errol Flynn. But she wasn’t always happy with the studio’s assignments and WB suspended her multiple times. On March 15, 1944,Variety ran the headline “De Havilland Free Agent.” That set in motion the system that remains today, when actors, agents and guilds could call the shots when making a deal.Four months later, de Havilland went to court again, seeking assurance that she could work elsewhere without interference from Warners. Again, she was successful.
In 1965, she became the first woman to serve as president of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival. Three years ago, she recalled tothat at first she was intimidated, but “As the only female on the jury that year, I did enjoy presiding over a committee entirely composed of men.”In November 2008, President George W. Bush presented de Havilland, then 92, with the National Medal of Arts, saying “Her independence, integrity and grace won creative freedom for herself and her fellow film actors.
HalSparks She will be forever remembered as Melanie in Gone with the wind.
She was a star in the purest sense-she had range & charisma & all the things that make a star-her performance in 'Gone With the Wind' lifted her character to an iconic place few other characters have been.
DebraMessing I thought this was you ,I had to do a double take when I first glanced ❤
Wonderfull woman!!
Great read!
rebeccalords The only two I’ve seen of hers are Adventures of Robin Hood & Airport 77. I liked both. She made several with Errol Flynn.
Happy Birthday dear lovely woman.
I love how she still fights to clear her name when other people try to say something that isn't true about her. I love this woman and her spirit.
iheartguitar What a ripe old age ripe old age to live. Never saw Gone With The Wind, but would like to.
Great innings
LiterOfCola85
Happy birthday Goddess! 💃🏻🌹💐🌸
gogirlsjax Happy Birthday OliviaDeHavilland
A true legend!
This is a pretty good story about her & Jared Leto & how her lawsuit helped him with his lawsuit - The De Havilland Decision.
AndreaEMitchel3 Outstanding!!! Imagine. Being a movie star during the Great Depression, and still alive today! To live beyond 100! That’s amazing! I hope she’s well.
Can you imagine the stories she can tell? I'm pleased she has lived this long and Betty White. True professional women.
Happy Birthday Olivia! I always loved how sweet Melanie was in GWTW and I thought Olivia played the part perfectly. That will forever be my favorite movie
SipsUpButtercup But but but.. racist! Do you hear me Jan? Racist racist racist
jeyges Legend
SebRules1 Happy Birthday Olivia !
Amazing artist!
KenNapzok DutchAllen
How about Norman Lloyd at 105?
U have to B a very special person 2 stay that healthy!
I love AngelaLansbury but she wasn’t part of the “Golden Age” of Hollywood. Her film career started in the 40’s not the 30’s
What a legend. What a lady. What a life!! Happy birthday! ❤️❤️
The nerve of writing there's still someone alive who can hold a candle to Olivia de Havilland on the Legend's BIRTHDAY. Whatever, congratulations ma'am!!!!
coleyworld Miss Mellie! Congratulations!
My birthday today too! Click on YouTube link for best viewing of cue [30] Reel 7 pt B (Bars 1-4) of ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD. Music by Erich Wolfgang Korngold. You'll see Olivia too! filmmusic OliviaDeHavilland ErichWolfgangKorngold
Happy Birthday Olivia🎂🎂
j9e9n9n9 One of my all time favorites!!
Amazing!
physicsgeek Wow, amazing woman! Rhett shouldda married her😄
A LEGEND we had to stan
You bloody scared me!
*cough* Jane Powell *cough* Angela Lansbury *cough*
How fitting that we’re recording an episode on Captain Blood (1935) later today!
Every time she trends, my heart stops.
Such a wonderful thing!! Happy birthday beautiful! 🎂👍🌻🌷🙏❤🙂
Hard to comprehend the range of actors/actresses Olivia de Havilland came into contact w/ over her career/life. Starting in 1935, she'd have been in a Hollywood w/ most silent film stars still alive, to the late 80s, when many of today's stars were acting. Amazing life.
Happy Birthday, Maid Marian!!! THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD is my favorite movie of all time. THANK YOU!!!
Holy cow...she still alive? You go girl
🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🎂
Happy Birthday
I loved seeing her play the bad girl in Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte (replacing Joan Crawford) OliviaDeHavilland
rwilliams1947 Happy Birthday to a living legend. 💝💝💝
Good genes-very helpful and she has them!
Er, Angela Lansbury is also still very much alive!
clayrr
Wondering what she thinks about the recent news regarding Gone With The Wind
Norman Lloyd and Angela Landsbury are still alive!!!
rebeccalords Amazing she looks that good at 104
As a kid my mother pushed me to watch older movies. I watched amazing cinema from a bygone era. Movies like The Thin Man, Marx Brother Comedies & others hold a special place in my heart but one in particular stands out. Robin Hood starring Ms. Havilland. Happy Birthday & thanks.
Amazing career and amazing longevity. A former neighbor's daughter was her assistant for a few years--I was so jealous!
Variety, actress Eva Marie Saint, of ‘On the Waterfront’ and ‘North by Northwest’ fame, is still alive at age 95 as of the date and time stamp of this reply. I love the films of Olivia de Havilland too, but Eva Marie Saint is from old Hollywood era and very much alive also. 🤓
Jane Withers be like 'excuse meeee?'
Happy Birthday!
Happy birthday Olivia! Hang in there!
Legend
Happy Birthday Olivia 💕
BackHomeLA Miss Melly!
I love her. Happy birthday OliviaDeHavilland ☺
coleyworld They don't make 'em like this anymore.
ScenicArtDesign Cheers...many happy returns of the day -;---------
goneWithTheWind
The real queen of entertainment. The rest are wannabe stars
jtLOL Don’t forget, Gone with the Wind has been cancelled.
Happy Birthday well deserved. 104 how I would love to know everything she has witnessed in her lifetime. ❤
He contract says till 105.
I grew up in her hometown, near the street named in her honor, and worship at the church between two of her childhood homes! Happy Birthday!
Happy 104th Birthday! 🎉
When Olivia de Havilland celebrates her 119th birthday, Bobby Bonilla will receive his final paycheck from the Mets
See, Stay positive Twitter! Apple Blossom song
Talent, grace and style. Difficult to find that trifecta in “New” Hollywood.
My dads favorite actress. Ironically I just thought about her yesterday.
The cancel kids are coming the cancel kids are coming!
I've always loved this quote of her sister Joan Fontaine: 'I married first, won the Oscar before Olivia did, and if I die first, she'll undoubtedly be livid because I beat her to it' Happy Bday Olivia!
Wow, who would’ve thought she lived this long. She great in Gone with the Wind, Roots and Robin Hood. I like Betty White too, but she won’t count due to her not starting to act til 1950. She is amazing but not Golden Age Of Hollywood which is about films not TV.
Fun fact: she has been famous for so long that she was name-checked in the very first 'true' Bugs Bunny cartoon ('A Wild Hare,' 1940).
Sounds like vampire nonsense to me.
Didn’t Hollywood ban her hit movie? 🤔
Happy Birthday 🎂
Tell this to Margaret O'Brien, June Lockhart, Ann Blyth, Angela Lansbury and the other movie stars. Olivia de Havilland is not the last remaining star of Old Hollywood. Also tell Lorenzo Lamas that you just killed off his mom Arlene Dahl? MiaFarrow Janefonda NancySinatra
Hollywood Royalty 😄
Bette Davis & Olivia de Havilland play sisters, one angelic & one evil. My take on this WB southern melodrama, with a surprisingly strong anti-racism subplot.
When Hollywood was respected
OH MY GOSH! Went I saw the'trending' notification I thought she had passed. Love her!
Such a lovely woman!
We share the same last name! OliviaDeHavilland
navychick1993 Alum of Los Gatos High School...
sasyecat My favorite movies starring Olivia de Havilland was The Heiress.
Wow! That Oil of Olay really works, huh..
CycloneLizzy Wow! That Oil of Ulan really works, huh...
I hate to say this Variety, but you're wrong. Betty White is still going strong. She too is part of 'old' Hollywood.
I remember watching GWTW with my dear mother. During the tearful Mellie death scene, mom says 'actual she will outlive you Scarlett' It must be where I get my love for black humor. Happy birthday OliviaDeHavilland
Wow!!! Happy Birthday
Bless her heart! Happy Birthday, Olivia! 🎂
Y'all this headline scared me at first.
This is what 'American Womanhood' is SUPPOSED to look like. 💐👏💐
MAGNIFCENT!!! Fave film? 'The Heiress'!! Favorite 'campy' film? 'Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte', with legendary Bette Davis! I almost cry for Hollywood as it was intended to be. Happy birthday to a True Star!! 💐👍💐♥️🎬💐
Olivia de Havilland was born 104 years ago. 104 years BEFORE she was born, James Madison was President. Her birthday is half-way between Trump and Madison.
Her family’s planes ✈️ are da bomb.
She may be old, but Olivia de Havilland is just a mean & old, & that shouldn’t be celebrated. She publicly fought with her sister, Joan Fontaine until she died, & she sued because she didn’t like how she was briefly portrayed in a recent miniseries. That doesn’t merit respect.
Wow, first Vera Lynn now Olivia de Havilland, had no idea these nuggets were/are still with us. Happiest of days, Olivia! OliviaDeHavilland
InvisibleHand78 Wow!!
Happy Birthday!
Don't forget Norman Lloyd 😉 JerseyCity 105!
OldFuckGCG It’s a good day to watch “The Heiress”! Happy Birthday, Olivia! 🎉🎊🎉
Wow. Amazing. Big Robin Hood fan.
Wow! Amazing.
Arent you forgetting Angela Lansbury.
Oh wow 🙂... ❣️
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