Biography

Dame Olivia Mary de Havilland DBE (July 1, 1916 - July 25, 2020) was a British-American actress, whose career spanned from 1935 to 1988. She appeared in 49 feature films, and was one of the leading movie stars during the golden age of Classical Hollywood. She is best known for her early screen performances in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) and Gone with the Wind (1939), and her later award-winning performances in To Each His Own (1946), The Snake Pit (1948), and The Heiress (1949). Born in Tokyo to British parents, de Havilland and her younger sister, actress Joan Fontaine, moved with their mother to California in 1919. They were brought up by their mother Lilian, a former stage actress who taught them drama, music, and elocution. Olivia de Havilland made her screen debut in Reinhardt's A Midsummer Night's Dream in 1935. During her career, she often played demure ingénues opposite popular leading men, including Errol Flynn, with whom she made nine films. They became one of Hollywood's most popular romantic on-screen pairings. She achieved her initial popularity in romantic comedy films, such as The Great Garrick (1937), and in Westerns, such as Dodge City (1939). Her natural beauty …

Filmography

Title	Character	Year	Rating
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)	1983	7.0
Murder Is Easy	Honoria Waynflete	1982	6.553
The Fifth Musketeer	Anne d'Autriche	1979	4.882
The Swarm	Maureen Schuester	1978	5.023
Airport '77	Emily Livingston	1977	5.593
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte	Miriam Deering	1964	7.293
Lady in a Cage	Mrs. Cornelia Hilyard	1964	6.138
Light in the Piazza	Meg Johnson	1962	6.37
The Heiress	Catherine Sloper	1949	7.766
The Snake Pit	Virginia Cunningham	1948	7.098
The Dark Mirror	Terry Collins / Ruth Collins	1946	6.975
Devotion	Charlotte Brontë	1946	5.885
To Each His Own	Miss Josephine 'Jody' Norris	1946	6.935
Princess O'Rourke	Princess Maria	1943	6.524
Thank Your Lucky Stars	Self	1943	6.225
Government Girl	Elizabeth 'Smokey' Allard	1943	5.667
In This Our Life	Roy Timberlake	1942	6.852
The Male Animal	Ellen Turner	1942	4.455
They Died with Their Boots On	Elizabeth Bacon	1941	6.651
Hold Back the Dawn	Emmy Brown	1941	6.67
Santa Fe Trail	Kit Carson Holliday	1940	5.81
Gone with the Wind	Melanie Hamilton	1939	7.9
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex	Lady Penelope Gray	1939	6.302
Dodge City	Abbie Irving	1939	6.926
The Adventures of Robin Hood	Maid Marian	1938	7.477
Four's a Crowd	Lorri Dillingwell	1938	5.433
Anthony Adverse	Angela Guiseppe	1936	5.764
The Charge of the Light Brigade	Elsa Campbell	1936	6.538
Captain Blood	Arabella Bishop	1935	7.216
A Midsummer Night's Dream	Hermia	1935	6.4

Known for	Acting
Credits	30
Born	1916
From	Tokyo, Japan

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