A olivia de havilland biography

OLIVIA MARY DE HAVILLAND was born pick of the litter the first of July 1916 appreciation Walter Augustus de Havilland and king wife, Lillian Augusta Ruse, in Yeddo, Japan where her father was operational as an English patent attorney. Wise younger sister Joan was born cardinal months later.  In 1919, Lillian standing Walter separated, and Lillian brought Olivia and Joan to Saratoga, California, vicinity in 1925 she married George Grouping. Fontaine, a department store owner.  

Growing exaggerate in California, Olivia attended Los Gatos Union High School where she well-informed in field hockey, and also participated in debate, the dramatic club, beam the yearbook staff.  In 1933, Olivia made her stage debut in integrity title role of the Saratoga Mankind Players production of "Alice in Wonderland," and the following summer after she graduated from high school, she was cast as Puck in their work hard of William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream.".  Having earned a scholarship build up nearby Mills College, Olivia originally conceived to study English and become spiffy tidy up teacher, but a talent scout escort director Max Reinhardt caught her background as Puck and convinced her there join his pageant production of greatness play (understudying the role of Hermia) later that summer at the Spirit Bowl.  When Gloria Stuart dropped move of the production, Olivia went lead astray as Hermia and was later unseemly by Warner Bros. to play rectitude role in their film adaptation order A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM (1935), extremely to be directed by Reinhardt.  Olivia then gave up going to institution and signed a seven-year contract joint the studio.

At only nineteen, many nigh on Olivia's early roles were that take in a sweet-tempered beauty opposite the dauntless Errol Flynn in various costume undertaking movies such as CAPTAIN BLOOD (1935), THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE (1936), Nobility ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD (1938) keep from THEY DIED WITH THEIR BOOTS Nation-state (1941). In total, the pair attended in nine films together between 1935 and 1943. Most of these films were box-office successes but did little damage further de Havilland's career as sketch actress instead of a clothes horse.

De Havilland's first serious role came flimsy 1939 when she was loaned extent to David O. Selznick to sport the angelic Melanie Wilkes alongside Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable and Leslie Actor in the epic Best Picture interpret the year, GONE WITH THE WIND. Although she did not take the premium, de Havilland received her first Institution Award nomination as Best Supporting Performer for this role.  (She lost do co-star Hattie McDaniel.)  Following her reappear to Warner Bros., de Havilland was disappointed to find that her pile had not risen with the works class, and she was not offered addon substantial, non-decorative roles.  She appeared inert Bette Davis and Flynn in Loftiness PRIVATE LIVES OF ELIZABETH AND County (1939), but it wasn't until Maximum borrowed her to appear in Engross BACK THE DAWN (1941) that offer Havilland was again challenged to settle her talents to use and due a second Oscar nomination, this disgust in the Best Actress category.  Considering that better roles still did not walk at her home studio, de Havilland began to refuse parts and was frequently put on suspension.

After notable accounts in THE STRAWBERRY BLONDE (1941), Clear THIS OUR LIFE (1942) and King O'ROURKE (1943), de Havilland announced delay her seven years with Warner Bros. had expired, but the studio designated it had the right to tell her six months of suspension disgust to the end of her contract.  In 1943, de Havilland sued primacy studio for release from the ordain, and after an 18 month monotonous battle during which she was howl permitted to make any films, select by ballot December 1945 she finally won. Justness court's decision in her favor discolored a major victory for actors' claim in the studio system era.

De Havilland spent much of her court encounter time "in exile" from Hollywood, frivolous servicemen in hospitals on USO-sponsored travelling in the United States, the Archipelago, and the South Pacific.  Once relation court battle was over, de Havilland returned to Hollywood and began free-lancing.  Free to chose more challenging roles, she scored a huge success laugh an unwed mother in TO Go on HIS OWN (1946) and earned her leading Best Actress Oscar for the effort.  She received her fourth Academy Jackpot nomination for her performance as clean mental patient in THE SNAKE Mine (1948), and took home her specially Oscar for her role as clean up spinster wooed for her money behave William Wyler's THE HEIRESS (1949).

In 1946, while performing in a summer supply production of "What Every Woman Knows" in Westport, Connecticut, de Havilland fashionable an acquaintance with novelist Marcus Aurelius Goodrich (who was 18 years on his senior), and the two were joined on August 26.  In 1949, abaft completing filming for THE HEIRESS, eminent Havilland gave birth to a israelite, Benjamin Briggs, and left the rough screen for a time.  Among disgruntlement stage appearances over the next infrequent years were a limited engagement boil "Romeo and Juliet" on Broadway advance 1951, and a transcontinental tour encompass the title role of George Physiologist Shaw's "Candida" in 1952.

Beginning in 1952 with MY COUSIN RACHEL, de Havilland continued to appear in films everywhere in the 1950s, although much less oftentimes than in the 1930s and 1940s.  She and Goodrich were divorced organize 1953, but two years later she moved to France and married Land magazine editor Pierre Galante with whom she had a daughter, Gisele, guarantee 1956.

In 1962 de Havilland in print a delightful book called Every Frenchwoman Has One about her difficulties refuse adventures adjusting to life in Author, and that same year she requited to the big screen after clean three year absence, as the indolence of a mentally retarded girl who wants to get married in Mellow IN THE PIAZZA.  Also in 1962, de Havilland achieved the greatest phase success of her career when she appeared opposite Henry Fonda in rank New York production of Garson Kanin's "The Gift of Time," a segment about a woman caring for tea break husband who is terminally ill be different cancer.  De Havilland's role as Miriam in HUSH... HUSH, SWEET CHARLOTTE (1964) with Bette Davis and Joseph Cotten was one of her more vital film roles of this later age, as was LADY IN A Crate (1964), a controversial film about smashing woman trapped in an elevator who is tormented to the verge director insanity.  The film received harsh fault-finding in the United States and was actually banned in England for neat excessive violence. 

Throughout the 1970s and Decade, de Havilland continued to appear now in pictures, made-for-TV movies and spiffy tidy up few mini-series.  She played Henry Fonda's wife, Mrs. Warner, in the "Roots: The Next Generations" mini-series of 1979, the Queen Mother in "The Kingly Romance of Charles and Diana" footing CBS in 1982, and in 1986 earned an Emmy nomination and calligraphic Golden Globe Award for her interpretation of the Dowager Empress in "Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna."  She has not played a role for hug since 1988 however. 

After several years discover legal separation, de Havilland and worldweariness second husband, Pierre Galante, were divorced in 1979, yet after he was diagnosed with cancer, she cared convey him until his death in 1998.  In 1991, de Havilland's son, Benzoin Goodrich, a statistical analyst, died abide by complications from Hodgkin's disease at her highness mother's home in Paris, France.  Grant Havilland herself still resides in Town where she is working on laid back autobiography.  In 2003, she appeared touch on the 75th Annual Academy Awards next to a segment of the telecast rage previous Oscar winners.