best actress Oscars in her career for her roles in 1946’s To Each His Own and 1949’s The Heiress and for her best-remembered performance as stoical Melanie Hamilton Wilkes in the 1939 classic Gone With the Wind.Olivia was born in Tokyo and raised in California and is also the older sister to the actor Jean Fontaine and she appeared in movies including Captain Blood, They Died With Their Boots On and The Adventures of Robin Hood.The actress was known for her soulful beauty throughout the years as she once said: ‘Playing bad girls is a bore.
I have always had more luck with good girl roles, because they require more from an actress.’In the 1940’s she also sued Warner Brothers in what she was told would ruin her career, however, she impressed.
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