Olivia de Havilland

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July 1, 1916

Olivia Mary de Havilland

Pierre Galante (2 April 1955 - 30 April 1979) (divorced) 1 child

Marcus Goodrich (26 August 1946 - 28 August 1953) (divorced) 1 child

Actress:

The Woman He Loved (1988) (TV)

Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna (1986) (TV)

"North and South, Book II" (6 episodes, 1986)

The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana (1982) (TV)

Murder Is Easy (1982) (TV)

"The Love Boat" (1 episode, 1981)

The Fifth Musketeer (1979)

"Roots: The Next Generations" (1979) TV mini-series

The Swarm (1978)

Airport '77 (1977)

Pope Joan (1972)

The Screaming Woman (1972) (TV)

The Adventurers (1969)

"The Danny Thomas Hour" (1 episode, 1968)

Noon Wine (1966) (TV)

"ABC Stage 67" (1 episode, 1966)

"The Big Valley" (1 episode, 1965)

Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)

Lady in a Cage (1964)

Light in the Piazza (1962)

Libel (1959)

The Proud Rebel (1958)

The Ambassador's Daughter (1956)

Not as a Stranger (1955)

That Lady (1955)

My Cousin Rachel (1952)

The Heiress (1949)

The Snake Pit (1948)

The Dark Mirror (1946)

The Well-Groomed Bride (1946)

Devotion (1946)

To Each His Own (1946)

Government Girl (1943)

Princess O'Rourke (1943)

In This Our Life (1942)

The Male Animal (1942)

They Died with Their Boots On (1941)

Hold Back the Dawn (1941)

The Strawberry Blonde (1941)

Santa Fe Trail (1940)

My Love Came Back (1940)

Gone with the Wind (1939)

Raffles (1939)

Essex and Elizabeth (1939)

Dodge City (1939)

Wings of the Navy (1939)

Hard to Get (1938)

Four's a Crowd (1938)

The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

Gold Is Where You Find It (1938)

The Great Garrick (1937)

It's Love I'm After (1937)

Call It a Day (1937)

The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)

Anthony Adverse (1936)

Captain Blood (1935)

A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)

The Irish in Us (1935)

Alibi Ike (1935)

Appearances

I Remember Better When I Paint (2009) (voice)

The Adventures of Errol Flynn (2005) (TV)

Melanie Remembers: Reflections by Olivia de Havilland (2004)

Premiere Women in Hollywood Awards (2004) (TV)

The 75th Annual Academy Awards 2003 (TV)

Entertainment Tonight (1 episode, 1998)

"The Aviators" (1 episode, 1998)

The Best of Hollywood (1998) (TV)

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies (1995) (TV)

The 60th Annual Academy Awards 1988 (TV)

"La nuit des Césars" (1 episode, 1986)

Night of 100 Stars II (1985) (TV)

"Arena" (1 episode, 1983)

Bette Davis: A Basically Benevolent Volcano (1983) (TV)

The American Film Institute Salute to Alfred Hitchcock (1979) (TV)

Good Morning America (2 episodes, 1978-1979)

"Everyday" (1 episode, 1979)

The 50th Annual Academy Awards 1978 (TV)

Inside 'The Swarm' (1978) (TV)

"Hollywood Greats" (1 episode, 1977)

The American Film Institute Salute to Bette Davis (1977) (TV)

"The Russell Harty Show" (1 episode, 1975)

"This Is Your Life" (1 episode, 1971)

The 40th Annual Academy Awards 1968 (TV)

The 39th Annual Academy Awards 1967 (TV)

The 38th Annual Academy Awards 1966 (TV)

What's My Line? (3 episodes, 1958-1965)

"Password All-Stars" (2 episodes, 1963-1965)

"The Bell Telephone Hour" (1 episode, 1965)

"I've Got a Secret" (3 episodes, 1960-1965)

"The Hollywood Palace" (1 episode, 1964)

"This Is Your Life" (1 episode, 1964)

The 35th Annual Academy Awards 1963 (TV)

The Ed Sullivan Show (1 episode, 1962)

"Play Your Hunch" (1 episode, 1961)

The 32nd Annual Academy Awards 1960 (TV)

Person to Person (1 episode, 1960)

The 25th Annual Academy Awards 1953 (TV)

Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)

Show Business at War (1943)

Screen Snapshots Series 16, No. 10 (1937)

A Day at Santa Anita (1937) (uncredited)

The Making of a Great Motion Picture (1936) (uncredited)

A Dream Comes True (1935) (uncredited)

Academy Awards

1950 Won Oscar Best Actress in a Leading Role for: The Heiress (1949)

1949 Nominated Oscar Best Actress in a Leading Role for: The Snake Pit (1948)

1947 Won Oscar Best Actress in a Leading Role for: To Each His Own (1946)

1942 Nominated Oscar Best Actress in a Leading Role for: Hold Back the Dawn (1941)

1940 Nominated Oscar Best Actress in a Supporting Role for: Gone with the Wind (1939)

Emmy Awards

1987 Nominated Emmy Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Special for: Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna (1986) (TV)

Golden Globes

1987 Won Golden Globe Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV for: Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna (1986) (TV)

1953 Nominated Golden Globe Best Motion Picture Actress - Drama for: My Cousin Rachel (1952)

1950 Won Golden Globe Best Motion Picture Actress for: The Heiress (1949)

Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists

1950 Won Silver Ribbon Best Actress - Foreign Film (Miglior Attrice Straniera) for: The Snake Pit (1948)

National Board of Review, USA

1948 Won NBR Award Best Actress for: The Snake Pit (1948)

New York Film Critics Circle Awards

1949 Won NYFCC Award Best Actress for: The Heiress (1949)

1948 Won NYFCC Award Best Actress for: The Snake Pit (1948)

Venice Film Festival

1949 Won Volpi Cup Best Actress for: The Snake Pit (1948)

Walk of Fame

Star on the Walk of Fame Motion Picture At 6764 Hollywood Blvd.

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Olivia de Havilland was the daughter of a British lawyer and his actress wife, and spent her early years in Tokyo, Japan. When her parents divorced, her family moved to Los Angeles, California. She entered movies as a beautiful teenager, luminous in black and white as Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935) and Errol Flynn's ladylove in Captain Blood (1935), and a vision of pink and pastel loveliness in Technicolor opposite Flynn as Maid Marian in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), and out West in Dodge City (1939).

On loan to MGM from Warner Brothers, she died prettily in Gone with the Wind (1939), gaining an Oscar nomination for her trouble. In The Strawberry Blonde (1941) she is sweetly funny as a modern girl of the 1890s, trying to impress James Cagney by smoking a cigarette. She supported Bette Davis in In This Our Life (1942), but de Havilland grew frustrated by the damsel-in-distress parts offered to her at Warner Brothers, and she began to reject such scripts. At that time the law allowed studios to suspend contract players for rejecting a role, and to add the period of suspension to the contract period. On a six month suspension, de Havilland sued Warners and won, setting a legal precedent. All performers were to be limited to a seven-year contract that would include any suspensions given out. The court's ruling was known as "De Havilland Law." After 1945 her roles improved, and she won Best Actress Oscars for both To Each His Own (1946) and The Heiress (1949), and wide acclaim for her depiction of a mentally ill woman in The Snake Pit (1948). Her rare later appearances include being menaced by thugs in Lady in a Cage (1964). Her estranged younger sister is the actress Joan Fontaine.

Famous people feel that they must perpetually be on the crest of the wave, not realising that it is against all the rules of life. You can't be on top all the time; it isn't natural.

Relations between de Havilland and younger sister Joan Fontaine were never all that strong and worsened in 1941, when both were nominated for 'Best Actress' Oscar awards. Their mutual dislike and jealousy escalated into an all-out feud after Fontaine won for Suspicion (1941). Despite the fact that de Havilland went on to win two Academy Awards of her own, they remained permanently estranged.

Turned down the role of Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

It was reported in October 2001 that Miss de Havilland was among 40 prominent French residents who were victims of hoax anthrax attacks. (The attacks were proven to be hoaxes after a woman was arrested in Paris for sending out envelopes containing a powdery substance.)

She and Joan Fontaine are the first sisters to win Oscars and the first ones to be Oscar-nominated in the same year.

The role of Lisolette Mueller in the The Towering Inferno (1974) was originally offered to her.

Was romantically involved with James Stewart, Howard Hughes, John Huston in the late 1930s.

Was offered the role of Mary Hatch Bailey in It's a Wonderful Life (1946) after Jean Arthur turned it down, but she also turned down the part.

Salary

Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964) $100 000

Gone with the Wind (1939) $25,000

Raffles (1939) $1,250/week