Olivia de Havilland, who turns 100 on Friday, remains for many the sweet Melanie "... With the Wind," American classic that takes place during the Civil War and became one of the greatest icons movie theater.
Almost 80 years later, the winner of two Academy Awards for Best Actress - for "All that remains is a tear" (Mitchell Leisen, 1946) and "too late" (William Wyle, 1949) - continues to be associated with Victor Fleming film, the next to Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh.
Winner of ten Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director (1939), this legendary film, one of the biggest commercial successes of the history of film, earned him a nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
Last living actress of this film adaptation of the novel by Margaret Mitchell, Havilland lives in Paris for over 60 years. It is currently the dean of American actors, beating Kirk Douglas in five months and eight days.
Young naive at the beginning of his career in the 1930s in films of adventures next Australian-American to Errol Flynn, could Havilland strong character roles that made her a star.
Olivia de Havilland actress poses for a photo next to the Minister of Culture and Communication of France
American of British origin, Olivia de Havilland was born in Tokyo on July 1, 1916 of British parents, former actress Lillian Fontaine, known as Lillian Augusta Ruse, and Walter de Havilland, patent attorney.
"Enemy-sisters" had as younger sister (15 months) and rival always, the actress Joan Fontaine (died 2013), the unforgettable Rebecca Alfred Hitchcock also won the Best Actress Oscar for her role in "Suspicion" (1942).
The relationship of the two was marked by emotional and professional rivalry extreme, which earned him the epithet of "sister-enemy" of cinema, something did not abate even with the death of Joan Fontaine in Carmel (California).
After the divorce of her parents when she was three years old, Olivia was with her mother to the United States to settle near San Francisco (California).
Olivia was the first of two sisters to go to the cinema, while Joan came to live two years in Japan with his father.
At 19, she appeared in "Esfarrapando Apologies" Ray Enright and, soon after, made his debut on the stage of the Hollywood Bowl playing Hermia in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by Shakespeare, before getting the role in his adaptation for film.
He signed a seven-year contract with Warner, which she accused of limiting their role to supporting Errol Flynn in Michael Curtiz films such as "The Charge of the Light Brigade" (1936), "The Adventures of Robin Hood" (1938 ) and "Captain Blood" (1935).
Thanks to Warner, who agreed to "borrow it" the year 1939 was the starting point of the great successes of the actress who was chosen by Victor Fleming to "... With the Wind."
In 1943, Warner refused to release it to the end of his contract, due to periods of "loans", causing Havilland acionasse justice. The judge compared the practice of bondage studio, giving favorable decision for actress and setting a precedent for defending the rights of the actors.
The many films in which participated it can choose its partners, as Richard Burton (I You will kill, Honey, 1953), Bette Davis and Joseph Cotten ( "With Malice in the Soul" 1965), Liv Ullman ( "Joan, what woman It was Pope ", 1973), Jack Lemmon, Joseph Cotten and Christopher Lee (" Airport 77 ", 1977).
He married and divorced twice - with the American writer Marcus Goodrich (1946-1952) and French journalist Pierre Galante (1955-1979) - Havilland Olivia had a son, Benjamin (who died in 1991), and a daughter, Gisèle .
Since 1953, she lives in France, where, in September 2010, President Nicolas Sarkozy awarded the Legion of Honor.
Olivia de Havilland actress
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