Olivia de Havilland (1916 – 2020), Oscar-winning “Gone With the Wind” star
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legacy.comOlivia de Havilland was an Oscar-winning actress who played Melanie Hamilton in “Gone With the Wind” and won two Academy Awards for Best Actress.Olivia de Havilland’s legacyDe Havilland was one of the last living memories of Hollywood’s golden age and, until her death, the oldest living Oscar winner.
She was the sister of actress Joan Fontaine (1917 – 2013), and they were the only sibling pair in Academy history to win Oscars for leading roles.
De Havilland rose from a studio contract with Warner Brothers – which kept her playing sweet ingénue roles that bored and frustrated her – to suing the studio and helping create a new Hollywood, to leaving that Hollywood behind as she sensed its golden age fading.
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