Olivia de Havilland

[-lucyinthesky-]

I can't believe we haven't a thread about her. She was a fantastic actress.




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Gorgeous as Melanie Hamilton in 'Gone with the wind':




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With Errol Flynn:



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[nmyngan]

i watched her in Gone with the wind only, but i really love her in it, i love her as Melanie Hamilton, Melanie by Olivia is far more beautiful than what i imagine from the novel

 

[-lucyinthesky-]

I love her in 'Captain Blood' as well:


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[somnambule]

thanks a lot for starting this thread,lucyinthesky and for the beautiful pictures you posted.love the last one.she was a great and classy actress ,loved her especially in "a midsummernight´s dream" but also in errol flynn movies like "robin hood" (what a beautful marian she was) and as the counterpart to bette davis´elizabeth 1 in the private lives of elizabeth and essex.i found her a bit too sappy in gone with the wind,but that´s what the role demanded,so she did a great job anyway.i also love her sister joan fontaine....(btw marilyn monroe was a great admirer of olivia de havillland too)

pic 1:silver screen magazine feb 1937

 

[somnambule]

and...

pic1:leading ladies
pic 2:film und mode -p.engelmeier

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[-lucyinthesky-]

Thank you somnambule
I also think she did a great job in 'The heiress'.


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[nel16]

Yay, a thread for Olivia! She is one of my favourite actresses -- I adore her performance as Melanie in GWTW (I prefer it to Vivien Leigh's Scarlett, actually - not that I don't love her or her character too ) and she was absolutely riveting in The Heiress with Monty Clift.

Plus she was just utterly adorable and classy!

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[-lucyinthesky-]

She's one of my favourite actresses too I recently saw 'The snake pit', and Olivia is so great in it. She was also a very beautiful lady, especially in the 30's.



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[justlooking]

I hated her character in gone with the wind when i was younger. I loved Scarlett's lively spirit and hated Melanie's sickening sweetness. While i've never seen any of her movies (The Heiress sounds good though!) because of her Melanie role I thought of her as a peace keeper goodie-two-shoes type. So i was very surprised to read that she hated her sister and they had a really bad relationship.

 

[nmyngan]

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[-lucyinthesky-]

I hated her character in gone with the wind when i was younger. I loved Scarlett's lively spirit and hated Melanie's sickening sweetness. While i've never seen any of her movies (The Heiress sounds good though!) because of her Melanie role I thought of her as a peace keeper goodie-two-shoes type. So i was very surprised to read that she hated her sister and they had a really bad relationship.

Yeah, it's sad to know that Joan and Olivia had a complicated relationship, with ups and downs. And by the way, Olivia's autobiography will come out next year, sure she have many interesting stories to tell.


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Some screencaps of early Olivia's movies: "The adventures of Robin Hood" (1938) and "Captain Blood" (1935

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[nel16]

Beautiful screencaps! And the portrait in #18 is gorgeous!

That's so exciting Olivia is writing an autobio, I had no idea!