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Olivia De Havilland actress
Born: 7/1/1916
Birthplace: Tokyo, Japan
The sister of actress Joan Fontaine, she is probably best remembered as the long-suffering Melanie in Gone With the Wind (1939). She starred opposite Errol Flynn in Captain Blood (1935) and The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), and she won Academy Awards for Best Actress for her roles in To Each His Own (1946) and The Heiress (1949). Her other films include Hold Back the Dawn (1941), The Snake Pit (1948), Hush . . . Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964), and Airport 77 (1977).
Information Please® Database, © 2007 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. More on Olivia De Havilland from Infoplease:
- Olivia De Havilland - Biography of Olivia De Havilland, Melanie in Gone With the Wind
- The Strawberry Blonde - Starring James Cagney, Olivia de Havilland, Rita Hayworth
- The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939) - Starring Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Donald Crisp, Alan Hale
- Gone With the Wind (1939) - Starring Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland
- Errol Flynn - Biography of Errol Flynn, Swashbuckling movie star of the 1930s and '40s
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