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Olivia Mary de Havilland was born on the 1st July 1916, in Tokyo, Japan, to English parents. She is an actress, best known to the world for appearing in such Hollywood blockbusters as “The Adventures of Robin Hood” (1938), “Gone With The Wind” (1939), and “The Snake Pit”, among others. Her career was active from the 1930s until the late 1980s.

Have you ever wondered how rich Olivia de Havilland is, as of mid-2016? According to authoritative sources, it has been estimated that Olivia`s net worth is as high as $20 million. Apart from films, Olivia has also made frequent stage appearances, some of the most notable include those in Broadway productions such as “A Midsummer Night`s Dream” and “Romeo and Juliet”, among others, which also improved her net worth.

Born in Japan to Walter Augustus de Havilland and Lilian Augusta de Havilland Fontaine, she moved to California in 1919, with her parents and sister, Joan Fontaine, who later became an actress as well. However, her parents divorced, and Olivia stayed with her mother and sister in California, in Saratoga, a village around 80km from San Francisco.

Since an early age, Olivia was taught to love the arts. Influenced and taught by her mother, it was only a matter of time before Olivia would become a professional actress, or a ballet dancer or even a pianist. She went to the Los Gatos High School, where she was heavily involved in the school`s drama club, and also became its secretary. Following her matriculation, she received a scholarship to Mills College in Oakland, which would enable her to study English language and become a professor, however, she was spotted by Max Reinhardt`s assistant and was offered the role of Hermia in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, which would be presented in Broadway theaters. She accepted the offer, and after the premiere, Max took Olivia on a four week tour, as he was impressed by her performance.The next big thing for Olivia was the role of Hermia in the film production of “A Midsummer Night`s Dream”, which Reinhardt directed, after Warner Bros. decided to produce the film. Olivia then signed a contract with the production house, which would earn her $200 per week for the next five years. This marked the real beginning of her professional career, and an increase to her net worth.

During the 1930s, Olivia built a name for herself, appearing in such films as “Captain Blood” (1936) with Errol Flynn and Lionel Atwill, then in “The Great Garrick”, before making a breakout appearance as Marian in the film “The Adventures of Robin Hood” (1938), again with Flynn. The role celebrated her as an actress, but also added a lot to her net worth.

After the role of Marian, she was selected to play Melanie Hamilton in the highly successful film “Gone With The Wind” (1939) opposite Clark Gable. Through the 1940s, Olivia became one of the greatest actresses of the Hollywood Golden age, Classical era, starring in films such as “Hold Back the Dawn” (1941), “Government Girl” (1943), “To Each His Own” (1946), “Devotion” – as Charlotte, one of the Bronte sisters, alongside Ida Lupino and Paul Henreid – “The Snake Pit” (1948), and “The Heiress” (1949), with Ralph Richardson and Montgomery Cliff.

In the 1950s, she moved to Paris, and married Pierre Galante, and focused more on family, but still appeared in several successful films, including “The Lady” (1955) in the lead role, “Not As A Stranger” (1955) with Frank Sinatra, “The Ambassador`s Daughter” (1956) alongside John Forsythe, and “Libel” (1959), among others, all of which increased her net worth.

In the 1960s, her popularity began to decline, and she made her last lead role appearance in 1964 in the film “Lady in a Cage”. To the end of the 1960s, she appeared only in a couple of minor roles, in such TV series as “The Big Valley” (1965), and “The Danny Thomas Hour” (1968).

As she grew older, it became harder to find new roles, and in the 1970s she made only a few appearances in such productions as “The Screaming Woman” (1972), “Airport `77” (1977), and “The Fifth Musketeer” (1979), but they also added to her net worth.

Olivia retired in the late 1980s, after over fifty years of activity in the entertainment industry; however, before retirement, she still managed to make several notable appearances in such films as “The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana” playing Queen Elizabeth, “Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna” (1986) as the Dowager Empress Maria, and “The Woman He Loved” (1988) as Aunt Bessie Merryman, which was her last appearance.

After retiring from acting, Olivia stayed active in Hollywood, as a presenter of Academy Awards in 2003, among other appearances.

Thanks to her skills, Olivia received numerous prestigious nominations and awards, including the Academy Award in the category Best Actress in a Leading Role for her work on film “The Heiress”, and also an Academy Award in the same category, for the film “To Each His Own”. Furthermore, she won two Golden Globe awards, the first one in category Best Actress for the film “The Heiress”, and second one in category Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series for her work on “Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna”. She also received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960.

Regarding her personal life, Olivia has been married and divorced twice; her first husband was Marcus Goodrich, they married in 1949 but divorced in 1953. The couple had one child together. Her second marriage was with Pierre Galante, whom she married in 1955; their marriage lasted until 1962, but they lived in the same house until 1968. She gave birth to their daughter in 1956.

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Olivia Mary de Havilland Trademarks

1. Small, delicate frame
2. Despite her great beauty, was often cast as plain, everyday women
3. Emotionally (and sometimes physically) vulnerable characters

Olivia Mary de Havilland Quotes

• I loved France, although I initially thought they were stubborn for always speaking French. When I went to Paris, Hollywood was collapsing because of television. A whole civilization was dying, and you cannot imagine how depressed we all were. That was the real Gone with the Wind (1939) saga. We didn’t know what the new world was going to be, but we were sure it wasn’t going to be as good. We were right.
• [dedication to Mickey Rooney upon his death, 2014] Mickey, Mickey, Mickey. They say you have died but I find this so hard to believe, for you are so live in my memory. There you are in the big room of the Chamber of Commerce Building on Sunset Boulevard in the summer of 1934, a little boy passing easily as a nine-ear-old when you are really 13. You hand me your work copy of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, climb onto the banquette beside me, place your head upon my lap and ask me to awaken you nine lines before your cue . . . What a memory you have left with me to keep.
• [her favorite word] I am attracted by almost any French word–written or spoken. Before I knew its meaning, I thought “saucisson” so exquisite that it seemed the perfect name to give a child–until I learned it meant “sausage”!
• [on Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)] The problem was I wasn’t as anxious to work as she was. I didn’t need to. I wasn’t thrilled with the script, and I definitely didn’t like my part. I was reverse-typecast, being asked to be an unsympathetic villain. It wasn’t what people expected of me. It wasn’t really what I wanted to do.
• [on Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)] [Bette Davis] wanted it so much, so I did it. I can’t say I regretted it, because working with her was special, but I can’t say it was a picture I am proud to put on my resume. Given the choice, I wouldn’t have deprived Joan Crawford of the honor!
• [on Bette Davis] I always thought it would be fun if we could work together. Then I was offered the chance to work with her on the film that became Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964) when Joan Crawford withdrew. I knew Bette wanted badly to work, and Jane [What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)] had been such a success that Bette was quite anxious. They had to find the replacement, and Bette wanted me.
• I felt Gone with the Wind (1939) would last five years, and it’s lasted over 70, and into a new millennium. There is a special place in my heart for that film and Melanie. She was a remarkable character–a loving person, and because of that she was a happy person. And Scarlett, of course, was not.
• [Clark Gable] was supposed to cry in the scene after the death of his daughter. It worried him for days before he was to do the scene. He never cried on the screen before, and it became an obsession with him. He didn’t think it was masculine for a man to cry. One day he confided in me, “Olivia, I can’t do it. I’m just going to have to quit.” I talked with him and convinced him that the tears denoted strength of character, not weakness. It turned out to be one of the most memorable scenes in the movie. Clark always underrated himself as an actor. I think his Rhett Butler will live forever as one of the screen’s classic performances.
• [on Clark Gable] Clark Gable was highly professional. He was a bigger star than we can create today. I was just a mini-star when we did Gone with the Wind (1939). I was afraid to talk to him. People can’t understand it now, but we were in awe. Clark Gable didn’t open supermarkets.
• [on Bette Davis] The great lesson I learned from Bette was her absolute dedication to getting everything just right. She used to spend hours studying the character she was going to play, then hours in make-up ensuring that her physical appearance was right for the part. I have always tried to put the same amount of work into everything I’ve done.
• [on Michael Curtiz] He was a tyrant, he was abusive, he was cruel. Oh, he was just a villain but I guess he was pretty good. We didn’t believe it then, but he clearly was. He knew what he was doing. He knew how to tell a story very clearly and he knew how to keep things going.
• [on Errol Flynn] I had a very big crush on Errol Flynn during [Captain Blood (1935)]. I thought he was absolutely smashing for three solid years, but he never guessed. Then he had one on me but nothing came of it. I’m not going to regret that; it could have ruined my life.
• The overwhelming majority of people who make up the liberal and progressive groups of this country believe in democracy, and NOT in communism. We believe that the two cannot be reconciled here in the United States, and we believe that every effort should be exerted to make democracy work, and to extend its benefits to every person in every community throughout the land.
• [in June 2006] I’ll be 90 on July 1. I can’t wait to be 90! Another victory!
• [in 2006, asked if she missed acting] Not at all. Life is too full of events of great importance. That is more absorbing and enriching than a fantasy life. I don’t need a fantasy life as once I did. That is the life of the imagination that I had a great need for. Films were the perfect means for satisfying that need.
• [on Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)]: It was full of traps; it was a delicate tightrope assignment. I found that very interesting. Robert Aldrich gave it a very special style, a kind of dark, glittering style which fascinated me.
• [in 2003] I know this is not a popular thing to say at the moment, but I love living among the French. They are very independent, intelligent, well educated and creative. They are a people full of feeling, which they express. They’re a vivacious people. Well, they’re Celts, you see.
• [in 2004] There certainly is such a thing as screen chemistry, although I don’t believe you find it frequently. There was a definite on-screen chemistry between Errol [Errol Flynn] and me. Before us, the most potent example was Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell in the ’20s and ’30s. People should not be surprised by screen chemistry because, after all, life is chemistry.
• [on the continuing appeal of Gone with the Wind (1939)] It will go on forever, and how thrilling that is. It has this universal life, this continuing life. Every nation has experienced war–and defeat and renaissance. So all people can identify with the characters. Not only that, it’s terribly well constructed. Something happens every three minutes, and it keeps you on your toes and the edge of your seat, which is quite a feat, I must say.
• [speaking in 1997] I have taken a long vacation, but I wouldn’t object to a fascinating part in a first-rate project, something I felt I could do well or would understand and interpret in an effective way. Then I would say, “Yes”. The offers still come, but not what I’m looking for.
• Playing good girls in the ’30s was difficult, when the fad was to play bad girls. Actually I think playing bad girls is a bore; I have always had more luck with good girl roles because they require more from an actress.
• [after winning her second Oscar in 1950] When I won the first award in 1947, I was terribly thrilled. But this time I felt solemn, very serious and . . . shocked. Yes, shocked! It’s a great responsibility to win the award twice.
• We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn’t know any of the stars from the other studios.
• The TV business is soul-crushing, talent-destroying and human being-destroying. These men in their black towers don’t know what they are doing. It’s slave labor. There is no elegance left in anybody. They have no taste. Movies are being financed by conglomerates, which take a write-off if they don’t work. The only people who fight for what the public deserves are artists.
• The one thing that you simply have to remember all the time that you are there is that Hollywood is an Oriental city. As long as you do that, you might survive. If you try to equate it with anything else, you’ll perish.
• [on Hollywood’s reaction to her landmark court victory against Warner Bros.] I was told I would never work again, if I lost or won. When I won, they were impressed and didn’t bear a grudge.
• Famous people feel that they must perpetually be on the crest of the wave, not realizing that it is against all the rules of life. You can’t be on top all the time; it isn’t natural.

Olivia Mary de Havilland Important Facts

• $100 000
• $25,000
• $1,250 /week
• She is only the third Oscar-winning actor to celebrate a 100th birthday. The others are George Burns, who died less than two months after passing the 100-year mark in 1996, and Luise Rainer, who lived to be 104.
• In celebration of her 100th birthday, she was honored as Turner Classic Movies Star of the Month for July 2016.
• As of 2016 she is the earliest surviving recipient of a Best Actress Oscar nomination. She was nominated in 1941 for Hold Back the Dawn (1941),.
• As of 2016 she is the earliest surviving recipient of a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination. She was nominated in 1939 for Gone with the Wind (1939).
• When Alicia Rhett, who played India, the daughter of John Wilkes in Gone with the Wind (1939), died less than one month before her 99th birthday on January 3, 2014, Olivia became the very last surviving cast member from that movie. This is quite an accomplishment considering the film had over 50 speaking parts.
• Was the 28th actress to receive an Academy Award; she won the Best Actress Oscar for To Each His Own (1946) at The 19th Academy Awards on March 13, 1947.
• Was considered for the title role in Mildred Pierce (1945).
• Her paternal grandfather, the Rev. Charles Richard de Havilland, was from a family originally from Guernsey, in the Channel Islands. Her other ancestry includes Anglo-Irish and English.
• [July 2006] Celebrated her 90th birthday at her daughter’s home in Malibu.
• Visited New York in the spring of 2004 to film a special commentary programme for the upcoming DVD of Gone with the Wind (1939), to be released in November that year.
• Is a staunch liberal Democrat and anti-communist.
• Gave birth to her second child at age 40, daughter Gisèle Galante, on July 18, 1956. The child’s father was her second husband, Pierre Galante; they divorced in 1979, and he died in 1998.
• Gave birth to her first child at age 33, son Benjamin Briggs Goodrich, on September 27, 1949. The child’s father was her first husband, Marcus Goodrich; they divorced in 1953, and he died in 1991.
• In a rare act of reconciliation, Olivia and her sister Joan Fontaine celebrated Christmas 1962 together along with their then-husbands and children.
• Was offered the role of Mary Hatch Bailey in It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) after Jean Arthur turned it down, but she also turned it down.
• One of her cousins, Capt. Sir Geoffrey de Havilland (1882-1965), was a British aviation pioneer, aircraft designer and owner of the de Havilland Aircraft Co. Its wooden bomber Mosquito has been considered the most versatile warplane ever built. The ill-fated de Havilland Comet was the first commercial jet airliner in 1952.
• Received the Medal of Arts honor from President George W. Bush at a White House ceremony in the East Room on November 17, 2008, “for her persuasive and compelling skill as an actress in roles from Shakespeare’s Hermia to Margaret Mitchell’s Melanie. Her independence, integrity, and grace won creative freedom for herself and her fellow film actors.”.
• In 2008 she was awarded the American National Medal of the Arts by President George W. Bush in Washington, DC.
• Her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is at 6764 Hollywood Blvd.
• She accepted two film roles turned down by Ginger Rogers, To Each His Own (1946) and The Snake Pit (1948). She won an Oscar for “To Each His Own” and was nominated for “The Snake Pit”. Rogers later regretted turning down the roles and wrote: “It seemed Olivia knew a good thing when she saw it. Perhaps Olivia should thank me for such poor judgment”.
• Attended as a surprise guest honoring the late Bette Davis, her long-time friend and co-star at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Los Angeles on May 1, 2008. The event, “A Centennial Tribute to Bette Davis”, was hosted by film historian Robert Osborne and its reception included Davis’ son Michael Merrill, her long-time personal assistant Kathryn Sermak and friends Gena Rowlands and Joan Leslie.
• Attended the funeral of Charlton Heston in April, 2008.
• In Italy almost all of her films were dubbed by either Dhia Cristiani or Lidia Simoneschi. For the Italian releases of two of her most celebrated and fondly remembered roles, Melanie Hamilton in Gone with the Wind (1939) and Maid Marian in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), she was dubbed, respectively, by Renata Marini and Dina Perbellini. This was the only time that either Italian actresses lent her voice to Olivia.
• In April 1946 she set off a power struggle within the Hollywood Independent Citizens Committee of the Arts, Sciences and Professions (HICCASP) by refusing to deliver two speeches in Seattle as written by her fellow executive council member Dalton Trumbo, later one of the blacklisted Hollywood Ten. She felt Trumbo’s text was too left-wing and worried that the organization was becoming “automatically pro-Russian”.
• Is mentioned in Helge Schneider’s book “Die Memoiren des Rodriguez Faszanatas”.
• In the 1950s the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum near Tucson, AZ, named one of their female javelinas “Olivia de Javelina” in her honor; Their male was named “Gregory Peckory” to honor actor Gregory Peck.
• Was romantically involved with James Stewart, Howard Hughes, John Huston in the late 1930s.
• When she was nine years old she made a will in which she stated, “I bequeath all my beauty to my younger sister Joan [Joan Fontaine], since she has none”.
• She has a street named after her in Mexico City. Renowned Mexican actor and director Emilio Fernández lived in Coyoacan Town on a street with no name at all, so he asked the authorities to name this street “Dulce Olivia,” Spanish for “Sweet Olivia,” after her.
• Ex-sister-in-law of Collier Young, Brian Aherne and William Dozier.
• Aunt of Debbie Dozier.
• Was somewhat overweight when she first came to Paramount; Edith Head designed costumes for her with a slimming effect.
• The role of Lisolette Mueller in The Towering Inferno (1974) was originally offered to her. It was eventually played by Jennifer Jones.
• Her mother named her Olivia after William Shakespeare’s romantic heroine in “Twelfth Night”.
• Confessed in later years that she had an intense crush on Errol Flynn during the years of their filming, saying that it was hard to resist his charms.
• She and Errol Flynn acted together in eight movies: The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), Captain Blood (1935), The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936), Dodge City (1939), Four’s a Crowd (1938), The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939), Santa Fe Trail (1940), and They Died with Their Boots On (1941) Both are also featured in a ninth film, Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943), although in separate scenes.
• Is portrayed by Lee Purcell in My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol Flynn (1985).
• She and Joan Fontaine are the first sisters to win Oscars and the first ones to be Oscar-nominated in the same year.
• Is the 15th cousin twice removed of Errol Flynn, her co-star in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938).
• In 1991 her son Benjamin Briggs Goodrich, a statistical analyst, died of complications from Hodgkin’s disease at his mother’s home in Paris, France.
• She holds the record for the most people thanked in an Oscar acceptance speech (27), which she set when she accepted the award for Best Actress for To Each His Own (1946).
• She made a special appearance at the The 75th Annual Academy Awards (2003) and received a standing ovation.
• She lives a peaceful retirement at her home on Rue Benouville, in Paris. She spends time teaching Sunday school to children at a local church.
• It was reported in October 2001 that she was among 40 prominent French residents who were victims of hoax anthrax attacks (the attacks were proven to be hoaxes after a woman was arrested in Paris for sending out envelopes containing a powdery substance).
• Her father, Walter Augustus de Havilland (1872-1968), was a patent attorney in Japan and also the author of the 1910 book “The ABC of Go”, which provides a detailed and comprehensive description of the Japanese board game.
• Is descended from the Haverlands of Normandy, one of whom (the Lord of Haverland) accompanied William the Conquerer in his invasion of England in 1066.
• Turned down the role of Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), reportedly saying that “a lady just doesn’t say or do those things on the screen”. De Havilland set the record straight in a 2006 interview, saying that she had recently given birth to her son when offered the part and was unable to relate to the material.
• In 1965 she became the first female president of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival.
• Lost her son, Benjamin, to Hodgkin’s disease in 1991, shortly before his father, writer Marcus Goodrich, passed away.
• At the age of 82, was awarded an honorary degree from the University of Hertfordshire, England.
• Showed flair as a writer when “Every Fenchman Has One,” a light-hearted autobiographical account of her attempts at adapting to French life, was published in 1962.
• Has made Paris her home since the mid 1950s.
• Justly famous for her court victory against Warner Brothers in the mid 1940s (many others had sued Warners but failed), which stopped Warners from adding suspension periods to actors’ contracts and therefore meant more freedom for actors in Hollywood. It became known as the “de Havilland decision”.
• As of December 15 2014, the 75th anniversary of the premiere of Gone with the Wind (1939), she is the only surviving major cast member. She has been the only survivor of the four principal leads since 1967. The only other surviving cast member who received screen credit is Mickey Kuhn.
• After her divorce in 1979 from second husband Pierre Galante, they remained close friends; after he became ill with cancer, she nursed him until his death in 1998.
• Relations between she and younger sister Joan Fontaine were never strong and worsened in 1941, when both were nominated for ‘Best Actress’ Oscar awards. Their mutual dislike and jealousy escalated into an all-out feud after Fontaine won for Suspicion (1941). Despite the fact that de Havilland went on to win two Academy Awards of her own, they remained permanently estranged.
• Daughter of film and stage actress Lilian Fontaine.
• Older sister of actress Joan Fontaine.

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