Profile
Olivia de Havilland
Actress
Female
Born
Jul 1, 1916
Age
96
Hometown
Tokyo
Other Names
Havilland, Olivia...
Olivia Mary de Havilland is a British American film and stage actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1946 and 1949. She is the elder sister of actress Joan Fontaine. The sisters are among the last surviving leading ladies from Hollywood… Read More
Romance
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Pierre GalanteMarried 1955 - 1979
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Pierre GalanteMarried 1954 - 1979
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Marcus GoodrichMarried 1946 - 1953
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Carl Frederick StoverDated 1935
Family
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Olivia de Havilland
Age 96
parents
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Walter Augustus de HavillandFather, d.1968
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Lillian FontaineMother, d.1975
siblings
children
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Benjamin GoodrichSon, Age 64
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Giselle GalanteDaughter, Age 57
Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1916
Birth
Born on July 1, 1916.
1919
3 Years Old
De Havilland's parents married in 1914 and separated in 1919, when Lilian decided to end the marriage after discovering that her husband used the sexual services of geisha girls; the divorce was not finalized, however, until February 1925.
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1925
9 Years Old
Although she left the acting profession, Olivia's mother did not fail to appreciate the arts, as she read Shakespeare to her children, and taught them diction and voice. In April 1925, the girls' mother remarried, this time to the owner of a department store, named George M. Fontaine, a man hated by both girls.
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TEENAGE
1933
17 Years Old
The sisters attended Los Gatos High School and de Havilland also attended the Notre Dame High School, Belmont. An acting award at Los Gatos is named after her. She participated in school drama club, and in 1933 made her debut in amateur theater, in the lead role in Alice in Wonderland, a production of the Saratoga Community Players based on the work of Lewis Carroll.
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1935
19 Years Old
De Havilland appeared as Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream, her first stage production, at the Hollywood Bowl. The stage production was later turned into a 1935 movie, her film debut.
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TWENTIES
1941
25 Years Old
In 1941, de Havilland became a naturalized citizen of the United States.
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THIRTIES
During this era, de Haviland was also notable as a staunch liberal, campaigning for Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman. In 1946, determined to protect liberalism from infiltration by communists, she provoked a highly-publicized row: concerned about reports of Stalinist atrocities, de Havilland removed pro-Communist material from speeches prepared for her by the Independent Citizens' Committee of the Arts, Sciences and Professions, a group later identified as a communist front organization.
1952
36 Years Old
Goodrich and De Havilland were divorced in 1952.
1955
39 Years Old
Pierre Galante, a journalist and editor of Paris Match, married De Havilland on April 2, 1955.
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FORTIES
1960
44 Years Old
In 1960, de Havilland published her first memoir called Every Frenchman Has One.
LATE ADULTHOOD
1979
63 Years Old
In a 1979 interview, Fontaine says the reason she stopped speaking with her sister was because Olivia wanted their mother (who was suffering from cancer) operated on at the age of 88.
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1986
70 Years Old
De Havilland continued acting on film until the late 1970s, afterward continuing her career on television until the late 1980s, highlighted by her winning a Golden Globe and earning a Emmy Award nomination for her performance as the Dowager Empress Maria in the 1986 miniseries Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna.
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1991
75 Years Old
Died in 1991.
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