Melanie Hamilton
"She was a tiny, frailly built girl, who gave the appearance of a child masquerading around in her mother's enormous hoop skirts-an illusion that was heightened by the shy, almost frightened looking her too large brown eyes." Margaret Mitchell, Gone With the Wind.
    As Ashley is the opposite of Rhett, Melanie is the exact opposite of Scarlett.  She is sweet, shy, loyal, honest, honourable and friendly.  Despite her lack of beauty or vivaciousness, she was always the most popular woman in Atlanta because of her kindness and purity, and because she was everything that a great lady should be.  Despite her shyness, she was also a wall of strength, supporting those she loved fiercly, and pulling those weaker than her along.
Olivia de Havilland
Olivia Mary de Havilland was born in Tokyo, Japan on July 1, 1916 of a British patent attorney and his actress wife. Her sister, Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland, (Joan Fontaine), was born in October, 1917. The sisters have had a long standing feud. While attending high school in California, she became interested in acting and played Hermia in an amateur production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. She was spotted by director Max Reinhardt who cast her in his professional production of Midsummer at the Hollywood Bowl and she then played Hermia in the movie version of Midsummer. She was signed to a long-term contract by Warner Brothers.
Her critically acclaimed portrayal of Melanie Hamilton in Gone With the Wind came came on loan out to David O. Selznick. When she lost the Best Supporting Actress Oscar to Hattie McDaniel she was consoled by Irene Selznick who told her it was very important to the industry that an African American person win the award and that Olivia's time would come. From 1943 - 1946, she didn't work because she was involved in a legal battle with Warner Brothers. Warners had tried to add the time she was suspended for refusing to take a part to her seven year contract. She won the case and the "de Havilland Law" became famous. She won 2 Oscars for her roles in To Each His Own and The Heiress. In the 1950's she appeared on Broadway and moved to France with her second husband, Pierre Galante, the editor of Paris Match. In the 1960's she remained busy in Lady in a Cage and Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte as well as writing the semi autobiographical, Every Frenchman Has One. Her career continued into the 70's and 80's in both films and telefilms winning a Golden Globe for her performance in 1986's "Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna". She is the only surviving member of the primary cast of Gone With the Wind.
Films
1935 ALIBI IKE
1935 CAPTAIN BLOOD
1935 A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
1935 The Irish in Us
1935 A DREAM COMES TRUE
1936 ANTHONY ADVERSE
1936 THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE
1937 CALL IT A DAY
1937 THE GREAT GARRICK
1937 IT'S LOVE I'M AFTER
1938 HARD TO GET
1938 GOLD IS WHERE YOU FIND IT
1938 THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD
1938 FOUR'S A CROWD
1939 DODGE CITY
1939 A DAY AT SANTA ANITA
1939 GONE WITH THE WIND
1939 THE PRIVATE LIVES OF ELIZABETH AND ESSEX
1939 WINGS OF THE NAVY
1940 MY LOVE CAME BACK
1940 RAFFLES
1941 SANTA FE TRAIL
1941 HOLD BACK THE DAWN
1941 THE STRAWBERRY BLONDE
1941 THEY DIED WITH THEIR BOOTS ON
1942 IN THIS OUR LIFE
1942 THE MALE ANIMAL
1943 GOVERNMENT GIRL
1943 PRINCESS O'ROURKE
1943 SHOW BUSINESS AT WAR
1943 THANK YOUR LUCKY STARS
1946 DARK MIRROR
1946 DEVOTION
1946 TO EACH HIS OWN
1946 THE WELL-GROOMED BRIDE
1948 THE SNAKE PIT
1949 THE HEIRESS
1952 MY COUSIN RACHEL
1953 MAIN STREET TO BROADWAY 1955 NOT AS A STRANGER
1955 THAT LADY
1956 THE AMBASSADOR'S DAUGHTER
1958 THE PROUD REBEL
1959 LIBEL
1962 LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA
1964 LADY IN A CAGE
1965 HUSH�HUSH, SWEET CHARLOTTE
1966 Noon Wine
1970 THE ADVENTURERS
1971 THE SCREAMING WOMAN
1972 POPE JOAN/THE DEVIL'S IMPOSTER
1977 AIRPORT '77
1978 THE SWARM
1979 THE FIFTH MUSKETEER
1979 ROOTS: THE NEXT GENERATIONS
1982 MURDER IS EASY
1982 THE ROYAL ROMANCE OFCHARLES AND DIANA
1986 ANASTASIA: THE MYSTERY OF ANNA
1986 NORTH AND SOUTH: BOOK II
1988 THE WOMAN HE LOVED
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