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Olivia de Havilland is one of the last few living actresses who worked through the Golden Time of Hollywood, but also one of the most decorated, winning dozens of awards over the course of a 50 time career. Among those, she especially acquired the Academy Award for Best Celebrity for To Each His Own (1946) and The Heiress (1949), more than a 10 years after she got her start as an 18 time old in Hollywood. Ironically, de Havilland was in California in part because the young British girl who was simply born in Tokyo quit in the us for treatment. Naturally, de Havilland isn't well kept in mind for any of these accolades or other films but because she played Melanie Hamilton in Gone with the Blowing wind (1939), perhaps the most well-known movie in American record. Although she was a veteran actress at the time, de Havilland's career hadn't progressed much since she started out, and rumor has it that she eventually got the role after her own sister, Joan Fontaine, was asked to audition for the part and recommended Olivia instead. Olivia was in the end nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Celebrity and became a household name in her adopted country overnight. Having been typecast in light loving comedies before Absent with the Blowing wind, that performance guaranteed de Havilland consequently had an extended, productive and flexible career making everything from westerns and dramas. Of these movies, she is perhaps most closely associated with the enigmatic Errol Flynn, another foreign-born professional who was more notorious for his assignments off the display screen than onto it. Before his untimely death, they appeared in several films along and became one of Hollywood's most popular on-screen couples.
