"To Each HIs Own."
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| One of the most graceful actresses that came from the silver screen, Olivia de Havilland has always done her work in a more quiet, luminating light- and always with care has she directed her career. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Although Olivia had been born in Japan to English parents, both parents had decided to leave Japan around the time Olivia was 2 years old and her sister Joan, a little younger. Their mother had planned a trip back home to England where she was going to keep her young daughters, but staying in California temporarily and with two daughter's who were ill at the time, she remained in California and made it their final destination. Olivia grew up south of San Francisco. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Olivia's parents divorced when she was very young and later on her mother remarried. Joan Fontaine, at the beginning of her career, to distinguish herself from her older sister's famous name, used her step-father's last name, which was Fontaine. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| While every actress in Hollywood and elsewhere were vieing for the role of Scarlett O' Hara, Olivia had her eyes set on the book's, Gone With the Wind, other heroine, Melanie Wilkes. Olivia was attracted to the syrupy affection and happiness that Melly brought to the fiesty Scarlett. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| In her Oscar winning performance, Olivia finally recieved her Oscar for her very sad and lonely character in The Heiress, filmed in 1949. The movie starred Montgomery Clift, Ralph Richardson, and Meriam Hopkins, as well. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Olivia starred in one of cinema's biggest tearjerkers, "To Each His Own," in which she gives up her son because she has the child out of wedlock, and must watch from afar as friend raises him, not knowing her personal agony. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Another heart-wrenching scene where Olivia's character tries to make a connection to the son who does not know who she is in "To Each HIs Own." |
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| Olivia and her sister Joan enjoy a snapshot together in 1942. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Olivia in the film, "It's Love I'm After" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Olivia plays a disillusioned heiress in "Four's A Crowd," 1938. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| A magazine from my own collection, which has a feature on Olivia's film "The Snake Pit," and many other movie stars. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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