Posted on 07/01/2019 4:29:24 PM PDT by fhayek
Given my interest in the stars from yesteryear, I vividly recall a conversation I had with the late TCM film historian Robert Osborne about Gone With the Wind star Olivia de Haviland.
"We speak every Sunday," he told me. "And I would so like to do an on-camera interview with her for TCM. But she would rather be remembered for her illustrious career instead of anyone wondering what she might look like as an older woman."
My conversation with Mr. Osborne, if I remember correctly, was in 2003, which would have made the legendary two-time Oscar winning actress 87 years old at the time.
Today it is my honor, and my privilege, to wish Dame Olivia de Haviland a very Happy Birthday. She turns 103.
Movie fans, of course, will remember de Haviland as Melanie Hamilton Wilkes in 1939 classic Gone With the Wind, which netted the actress her first of five Academy Award nominations. But her initial movie role of prominence was in 1935 swashbuckling pirate film Captain Blood opposite Errol Flynn. Then of note, also pre-Gone With the Wind (and also opposite Errol Flynn), was The Adventures of Robin Hood in 1938.
"This was an early Technicolor classic," Osborne said about The Adventures of Robin Hood during our memorable conversation. "It was the film that really was the best looking color film of the 1930s; more so than The Wizard of Oz and Gone With the Wind. It just never got the credit it deserves."
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Total class act. Happy Birthday, Olivia.
My favorite movie. Classy lady.
She’ll always be Maid Marian opposite Errol Flynn as Robin Hood. :-)
Wow, it is hard to believe.
She wasn’t as classically beautiful as Vivien Leigh, but she was stunning in her own right. And probably still is in her soul.
Lady has some spunk.
I am not as classy as she is... I would probably start trash talking about anyone who crossed me. But basically everyone who was nasty to her when she was a young lady is probably dead... so what is the point? She wins.
103. Now have nightmares; just think of RBG. Oh, the wonders of modern medicine.
Blessings!
Written by a cousin of mine.
Awesome movie.
If she keeps going, she’ll get to witness the Second Civil War in person. How ironic.
Are you talking about Margaret Mitchell? Or someone who was a writer for the movie?
Mitchell.
Couldn’t put the book down. Loved the book & the movie.
Interesting.
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