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Number9Dream

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Mon Jun 30, 2025, 03:42 PM Jun 2025

Born July 1, 1916 - Olivia de Havilland - British & American actress

"Before her death in 2020 at age 104, she was the oldest living and earliest surviving Academy Award winner and was widely considered as being the last surviving major star from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema." "De Havilland first came to prominence with Errol Flynn as a screen couple in adventure films such as Captain Blood (1935) and The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938). One of her best-known roles is that of Melanie Hamilton in Gone with the Wind (1939), for which she received the first of her five Oscar nominations."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivia_de_Havilland

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Born July 1, 1916 - Olivia de Havilland - British & American actress (Original Post) Number9Dream Jun 2025 OP
I had a HUGE crush on Olivia when I was about ten years old Martin Eden Jun 2025 #1

Martin Eden

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1. I had a HUGE crush on Olivia when I was about ten years old
Mon Jun 30, 2025, 06:52 PM
Jun 2025

Watching her early movies with Errol Flynn.

She proved to be a versatile actress.

In Gone with the Wind, she was practically a saint.

In Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte, quite the opposite!

Great performance as a mental patient in The Snake Pit.

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