Olivia de Havilland

Olivia and Joan were nominated simultaneously for an Oscar: Joan won. Olivia later won two Best Actress Oscars for To Each His Own (1946) and The Heiress (1949). Olivia was also famous for playing twins in The Dark Mirror.

Olivia de Havilland was the first contract actress to successfully sue a major studio, Warner Bros., because she was unsatisfied with the quality of the scripts she was given. This decision limited the terms of studio-player contracts, including suspension, to a maximum of seven years.

She has been married to Marcus Aurelius Goodrich, and to Pierre Paul Galante, editor of Paris Match.

As of 2003, Olivia de Havilland is in retirement at the age of 86 years old in Paris, France, in good health and living with her daughter, Giselle Galante. She speaks English and French. She visited the United States to promote the 60th anniversary of Gone With the Wind and break ground for a college in her cousin Geoffrey de Havilland's name. She is reportedly writing her autobiography, which will likely recount her much-discussed relationship with Errol Flynn.

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