Olivia de Havilland
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| Name: | Olivia de Havilland | |
| Status | Deceased | |
| Age: | 104 (July 1, 1916 -July 26, 2020) | |
| IMDB: | IMDb | |
| TMDB: | TMDB | |
| Smoking Status: | Unknown | |
| Type of Celebrity: | Actor | |
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| TMDB Popularity | 10.677 | |
| Biography (TMDB): | Dame Olivia Mary de Havilland DBE (July 1, 1916 - July 25, 2020) was a British-American actress, whose career spanned from 1935 to 1988. She appeared in 49 feature films, and was one of the leading movie stars during the golden age of Classical Hollywood. She is best known for her early screen performances in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) and Gone with the Wind (1939), and her later award-winning performances in To Each His Own (1946), The Snake Pit (1948), and The Heiress (1949). Born in Tokyo to British parents, de Havilland and her younger sister, actress Joan Fontaine, moved with their mother to California in 1919. They were brought up by their mother Lilian, a former stage actress who taught them drama, music, and elocution. Olivia de Havilland made her screen debut in Reinhardt's A Midsummer Night's Dream in 1935. During her career, she often played demure ingénues opposite popular leading men, including Errol Flynn, with whom she made nine films. They became one of Hollywood's most popular romantic on-screen pairings. She achieved her initial popularity in romantic comedy films, such as The Great Garrick (1937), and in Westerns, such as Dodge City (1939). Her natural beauty and refined acting style made her particularly effective in historical period dramas, such as Anthony Adverse (1936), and romantic dramas, such as Hold Back the Dawn (1941). In her later career, she was most successful in dramas, such as Light in the Piazza (1962), and unglamorous roles in psychological dramas including Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964). In addition to her film career, de Havilland continued her work in the theatre, appearing three times on Broadway. She also worked in television, appearing in the successful miniseries, Roots: The Next Generations (1979), and television feature films, such as Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna, for which she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. During her film career, de Havilland won two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, two New York Film Critics Circle Awards, the National Board of Review Award for Best Actress, and the Venice Film Festival Volpi Cup. For her contributions to the motion picture industry, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. For her lifetime contribution to the arts, she received the National Medal of Arts from President George W. Bush, and was appointed a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur by French President Nicolas Sarkozy. De Havilland and Joan Fontaine are the only siblings to have won Academy Awards in a lead acting category. A lifelong rivalry between the two actresses resulted in an estrangement that lasted over three decades. De Havilland lived in Paris since 1956, and celebrated her 100th birthday on July 1, 2016. In June 2017, two weeks before her 101st birthday, de Havilland was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2017 Birthday Honours for services to drama. She was the oldest woman ever to receive the honour. In a statement, she called it "the most gratifying of birthday presents". |
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Movies
Four's a Crowd
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Rosalind lights a cigarette from her combined case and lighter, part-releasing before inhaling and then talk-exhaling. An editing error in a later scene means that we see her take out a cigarette - the next moment it is already lit. Olivia takes a drag in a beach scene, but doesn't seem to inhale to any depth. |
Government Girl
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Olivia dangles in one scene. She stubs her cigarette out in another, immediately asking for a light for the next in the chain. She doesn't inhale, though. Anne holds in one scene. |
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
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I was very surpised that this movie wasn't listed... The 'villainess' of this classic film (whom I *think* is Olivia de Havilland... though I'm not totally positive since I only caught the last 10 minutes or so of the film; I definitely know it's NOT Agnes Moorehead who's also in the film...) has a [dangle] and then a nice light up at the end. She doesn't inhale, however and (unfortunately) doesn't put the cigarette near her mouth again and just holds for the remainder of the scene. Apparently there's a famous ballroom scene earlier in the film that I missed that also may have 'elegantly dressed' woman smoking, for those interested... but that's just speculation on my part. |
In This Our Life
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In a nice role-reversal for the time, she offers the man a cigarette. He lights her, but she looks awkward and does not inhale. |
Light in the Piazza
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Seven non-filter scenes with three lightings and convincing inhales/exhales. |
Raffles
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Helps herself from a cigarette box and lights with a match |
The Adventurers
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[de Havilland] A exquisite scene in which a (topless?) Olivier de Haviland lights up a post-coital St Moritz menthol, while loungeing in bed with her playboy lover. |
The Ambassador's Daughter
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In this scene, Myrna asked Olivia if she wants to go to the next room and smoke. Olivia agreed and then they walked into the next room. Myrna gave Olivia a cigarette and a man approached Olivia, giving her a light. She exhaled nicely. Myrna lit up her own cigarette, but there wasn't much of an exhale. |
The Dark Mirror
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About 8 scenes with non-filters in this B/W. Mostly of average quality IMHO, but her exhales were respectable. |
The Snake Pit
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Three scenes, with two lightings. She does not inhale, though |
To Each His Own
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[de Haviland] is made up to look much older with her earlier life shown in a flashback. She smokes a number of times (lost count) both old and young but mostly in her youth. Good lighting and camera angles on this lovely lady. Plus she inhales. This is the only movie I've seen of her where she inhales and she looks quite good doing it! She certainly looks like an IRL smoker in this movie. |
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