Olivia de Havilland was born in Tokyo (1916), worked and became famous in Hollywood, starred in television, lives in France. She received many awards and prizes for her creative life, the audience loved her and now follows the life of the actress, who, despite her advanced age, appears at official ceremonies.
Childhood
In 1913, a young promising English actress who came to visit her brother and lawyer Walter Havilland met in Japan. The following year, the couple married in New York and returned to the Land of the Rising Sun. They moved to a large house in the exclusive area of Tokyo. There, Lillian, the newlywed, continued to take music, vocals and dance lessons. On July 1, the distant 1916, the eldest daughter was born in their family. Her sister Joan was born the following year. Three years later, the parents divorced, as the husband had a tendency to cheat on his wife. In Japan, children were often sick. Mother, taking two daughters, moves to Los Angeles. She is an actress and works under a pseudonym. Olivia begins to practice ballet at the age of four, and at five, playing the piano. Mother gives her diction lessons and teaches acting. Olivia and her sister were transferred to varying degrees, the ability of the mother. The girl graduates from high school and enters Mills College in Auckland.
There, Olivia de Havilland, whose height is 163 cm, takes part in the play "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and attracts the attention of Max Reinhard. He invites her to the professional scene. At about fifteen, she made her debut in the same performance, but at the Hollywood Bowl Theater. She will get the role unexpectedly, as the performer of the role of Hermia fell ill.
Go to the cinema
However, filming in the movies attracts the girl more. At nineteen, she enters into a seven-year contract with Warner Studios. Before ink had dried on the contract, Olivia de Havilland appeared on the screen in 1935 in three films at once: The Irish Among Us, Alibi, and Captain Blood's Odyssey. In the first year she got a lot of experience in cinema - she understood how light should fall. Captain Blood's Odyssey was the first costumed film starring Olivia. Since that time, the famous heartthrob Errol Flynn has become her regular partner for eight years. She is filmed mainly in lyrical comedies. 1938 the picture “The Adventures of Robin Hood” was released. The film became one of the most popular adventure paintings of the time. After this film, Olivia becomes a movie star.
In 1939, the studio “lends” it (indicative of treating the actress as a thing) to David Salsnik for filming in the movie Gone With the Wind. Her femininity and aristocracy were brightly revealed in the role of Melanie Wilkes.
Immediately a few days after the end of filming, she begins work on the film "The Private Life of Elizabeth and Essex." After these roles, Olivia becomes uninteresting well-bred girls who fall into distress. This type, with which both the audience and the directors identify it, should be decisively broken, Olivia de Havilland believes. The photo shows a strong-willed refined young woman who is considered the most stylish actress of this time.
She was not afraid to speak out against a powerful studio. Olivia is not removed within six months, until the contract has expired. The studio believes that the contract should be extended for six months. But Olivia de Havilland sues and, with the support of the Guild of Movie Actors, wins the process. Thus, the court weakened the power of studios over film actors and turned the latter into relatively independent people with the right to choose a creative path. This decision was called the "precedent de Havilland."
Studio "Paramount"
Olivia de Havilland signs a contract for three films. For the first picture, which is called "To Each His Own, " she receives an Oscar in 1946. The second film, Dark Mirror, again showed new facets of the actress's play. She was psychologically convincing in the roles of twin sisters. 1948 - Award at the Venice Festival for his work in the film “Snake Pit”. She played the role of a mentally ill woman named Virginia. The work of the actress was very realistic. She moved away from the lovely charming girls whom she had played in her youth, and showed her dramatic talent. In 1949, she starred in the film "The Heiress" and again received an Oscar. In 1951, Olivia performs in "Romeo and Juliet" on Broadway, and a year later she takes part in a tour with Bernard Shaw's "Candida". This show is well received and many additional performances have taken place.
First marriage
In 1948, she met with the writer Mark Gudich. He is eighteen years older than Olivia, and yet the marriage took place. They have a son, Benjamin. She rejects the offer to play in the film "Tram" Desire ", explaining this by the fact that she had a son. Six years later, the couple divorced.
Second marriage
Two years later she marries a screenwriter, playwright and editor of the Paris Match, Pierre Galante. Olivia moves to France. The couple settled in a prestigious right-bank area of Paris near the Bois de Boulogne. Now it will be her homeland. Her husband is seven years older than Olivia. In their marriage, the girl Giselle will be born. Since 1962, they will begin to live separately, but officially divorced in 1979.
Job
Olivia in the fifties announced the end of her career. But occasionally she starred in a big movie until the mid-seventies, and then goes on television and on Broadway. From 1939 to 2016, Olivia received 22 awards. These are the Oscars, and the Golden Globe, and the star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, the National Medal of Arts, awarded by President Bush, and the Legion of Honor, received from the hands of Nicolas Sarkozy.
