"Gone With the Wind" actress, Olivia de Havilland, dies at 104

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Olivia de Havilland dead at age 104

The two-time Oscar winner spent her last several decades living in Paris, laughing at her own longevity.

Olivia de Havilland, an iconic actress of Hollywood's Golden Age and last surviving cast member of "Gone with the Wind," has died at age 104, her representatives said Sunday.

"Last night, the world lost an international treasure, and I lost a dear friend and beloved client," her former lawyer Suzelle M. Smith said in an email to NBC News. "She died peacefully in Paris."...

 

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Olivia de Havilland, Oscar-winning actress, dies at 104 | Xfinity

PARIS (AP) — Olivia de Havilland, the doe-eyed actress beloved to millions as the sainted Melanie Wilkes of “Gone With the Wind,” but also a two-time Oscar winner and an off-screen fighter who challenged and unchained Hollywood’s contract system, died Sunday at her home in Paris. She was 104.

Havilland, the sister of fellow Oscar winner Joan Fontaine, died peacefully of natural causes, said New York-based publicist Lisa Goldberg.

De Havilland was among the last of the top screen performers from the studio era, and the last surviving lead from “Gone With the Wind,” an irony, she once noted, since the fragile, self-sacrificing Wilkes was the only major character to die in the film. The 1939 epic, based on Margaret Mitchell’s best-selling Civil War novel and winner of 10 Academy Awards, is often ranked as Hollywood’s box office champion (adjusting for inflation), although it is now widely condemned for its glorified portrait of slavery and antebellum life...

 

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Olivia de Havilland, star of ‘Gone With the Wind,’ dies at 104

Olivia de Havilland, the last surviving star of the 1939 classic film “Gone With the Wind” and the instigator of a landmark lawsuit that ended studios’ control over their actors, has died. She was 104.

The actress died in Paris, her publicist told the Associated Press. No cause of death was given.

Though de Havilland appeared in about 60 movies and television shows, she was best known for her role in David O. Selznick’s production of the Margaret Mitchell novel. She played the gentle Melanie Hamilton, who marries Ashley Wilkes, the man loved by Vivien Leigh’s tempestuous Scarlett O’Hara. Wilkes’s character was portrayed by Leslie Howard...

 

[Catmommy]

She'll ever be the quintessential lady to me.

 

[scandinavian girl]

I say farewell Ms de Havilland on your last journey you were an icon and will remain so.

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

TCM Remembers

 

[Blondie in Spokane]

Such a beautiful lady and amazing actress. RIP Olivia.

 

[Luckyzmom]

What an amazing woman and incredible talent. Rest in Peace Ms De Havilland

 

[LadyL]

RIP da-hhhling!

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

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8:00 AM Princess O'Rourke (1943)
10:00 AM Light in the Piazza (1962)
12:00 PM In This Our Life (1942)
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4:00 PM Dodge City (1939)
6:00 PM The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
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