1. When Gone With the Wind was released in December 1939, the US Civil War had ended 74 years earlier, in 1865.
2. As Ms. de Havilland turns 103 in 2019, Gone With the Wind was released 80 years ago.
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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Just looked & found a pic from her 101st Birthday; you are right...still beautiful!
My GG Aunt recently celebrated her 104th & is also lovely. She still gets along rather well...but recently had to move from an apartment to a care facility.
She lived by herself on the farm until just a couple of years ago...amazing:)
Olivia’s paternal cousin was Sir Geoffrey De Havilland (1882–1965), an aircraft designer and founder of the De Havilland aircraft company.
Beautiful! Happy birthday Miz Melly.
1. When Gone With the Wind was released in December 1939, the US Civil War had ended 74 years earlier, in 1865.
2. As Ms. de Havilland turns 103 in 2019, Gone With the Wind was released 80 years ago.
“It’s Sean Astin.”
Thank you! I thought I was a little off, but was too lazy to check!
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Sounds like you have some good genes in your family!
That scared my silly when I was a kid. :)
Happy 104th!
Thanks for the heads up.
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