Olivia de Havilland said in her later years that she felt like “a survivor” from “an age that people no longer understand”.
The actress was a shining star of 30s and 40s Hollywood, working with the likes of Clark Gable and Errol Flynn. And with her death on Saturday, aged 104, our last living link to that golden age of Tinseltown was gone.
Her representative summed it up by saying: “The world lost an international treasure.” Olivia, a two-time Oscar winner and star of 49 films, was the last surviving star of the Gone With The Wind cast.
She was a recluse in her final years but never gave up the glamour, living up to the end in a Parisian hotel suite overlooking the Eiffel Tower, drinking bubbly.
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