The two-time Oscar winner and 'Gone with the Wind' star was also a vocal opponent of unfair labor laws and sexism in Hollywood.
Her talent agent Jim Wilhem confirmed to HuffPost that de Havilland died peacefully from natural causes.
“I stared across the table, where Olivia was sitting directly opposite me. ‘Get up there, get up there,’ Olivia whispered commandingly. Now what had I done?” Fontaine later recalled in her memoir. “All the animus we’d felt toward each other as children, the hair-pullings, the savage wrestling watches, the time Olivia fractured my collarbone, all came rushing back in kaleidoscopic imagery. My paralysis was total.
As a teenager, she began performing in community theater productions and gave up a college scholarship when she landed a role in a production of William Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” at the Hollywood Bowl. She reprised the role in Warner Brothers’ movie adaptation in 1935, which launched her film career.The studio paired her with Flynn, who ended up being her co-star in a total of eight feature films.
Later films included “Light in the Piazza” and “Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte” , co-starring her friend Bette Davis. She also returned to theater and appeared on numerous TV shows, including the NBC miniseries “Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna,” for which she received an Emmy nomination in 1987. Men felt threatened and mistrustful of women who had good ideas, and one had to employ immense tact when dealing with directors and producers.In 1965, she became the first woman to serve as president of the Cannes Film Festival’s jury. The French government appointed her a chevalier of its Legion of Honor in 2010.“for her persuasive and compelling skill as an actor in roles from Shakespeare’s Hermia to Margaret Mitchell’s Melanie.
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