Written by / Stephen Demon
The last of Hollywood's Golden Age is 103 years old today.
She collaborated with contemporaneous film star Audrey. Hepburn, Vivien Leigh. Lido was once popular around the world.
In 1939, she starred in the classic film of the century, "Gone with the Wind", which caused a sensation around the world, and now 80 years have passed.
She won two Oscars and is a legend who witnessed the Golden Age of Hollywood.
In 1941, "Good Night" was nominated for the Best Actress Award at the 14th Academy Awards.
1946, "The Seeds of the Wind", the 19th Academy Awards for Best Actress.
In 1948, "Poison Dragon Pond", nominated for the 21st Academy Award for Best Actress.
In 1949, heiress was awarded the 22nd Academy Award for Best Actress and the 7th Golden Globe Award for Best Actress.
She's Olivia. black. Havelland.
The history of the rebellious girl's upbringing
Olivia was born on July 1, 1916, to a British family in Tokyo, Japan.
His father was a British lawyer and his mother was a stage actress, and his family was well-off and well-off.
In 1917, her sister was born, but was found to be suffering from anemia.
At the age of 3, in order to improve her sister's physical condition, the family moved to the warmer southern California.
Olivia's father was used to getting into trouble, and not long after arriving in the United States, he left his mother and daughter and returned to Japan.
He ignored his wife and daughter, and even came out openly with his former Japanese butler, completely separated from his wife.
The stubborn mother had to raise the Olivi sisters alone in the United States.
Life was difficult, but the mother still worked while taking care of her daughters and teaching them to sing and act.
Influenced by their mother, both sisters displayed high artistic talents.
Olivia learned ballet at the age of 4, piano at the age of 5, and a natural voice, and her temperament from childhood cultivation made her outstanding.
At the age of 9, my mother finally ended her painful marriage and married an American businessman.
The merchants were upright and good to them, and the situation in the family was good again.
Stepfathers were also strict, requiring them to learn traditional knowledge and reduce so-called hobbies.
Olivia's rebellion was revealed for the first time, and she loved acting since she was a child, and she was unwilling to give up her dreams.
In high school, Olivia joined the drama club, organized the participation in the school's stage plays, and became the president.
Her stepfather always told her to focus on her studies and not to "do not do the right thing."
Olivia ignored her stepfather's persuasion and threw herself more into her passion.
The school rehearsed a stage play, and she starred as the heroine of "Pride and Prejudice".
The stepfather was finally enraged, and he said solemnly to Olivia:
"Either stop acting and continue to be an honest girl at home, or choose acting and never come back."
Perhaps inheriting her mother's stubbornness, Olivia really left home.
Olivia decided to take control of her own destiny, with dreams, and will eventually be shrouded in opportunity.
Women who cherish opportunities are best killed
For acting, she gave a lot.
In 1934, Olivia received a scholarship to pursue education at Mills College.
After school hours, she continues her hobby by performing stage plays at a community theater near the school.
An Australian director is going to shoot a new version of the stage play "A Midsummer Night's Dream".
The director's assistant was attracted to Olivia, a girl with excellent acting skills and full of spirit, and recommended her to the director.
The director admired the young and energetic Olivia and decided to make her the second substitute for the heroine, Hemiya.
Logically, the second substitute is a very marginal position, and the chances of being on the stage are very small.
However, Olivia was the "Yang Transcendence" of that era, the absolute koi life.
The original heroine had to quit a week before the premiere when there was a sudden emergency at home.
Only two days later, the first substitute also went out of the situation and temporarily announced a strike.
In this way, fate has the opportunity to rewrite, and there is a turning point in life.
Olivia was on the real stage, and the year she was 18 years old.
Olivia has a lot of stage performance experience, and is also full of young people's fighting spirit and enthusiasm.
She is not proud, but gives full play to her acting skills and shows her charm to the fullest.
"A Midsummer Night's Dream" became a hit, and the heroine Olivia also managed to attract the attention of Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. decided to remake the stage play into a movie, and still had Olivia as the heroine.
They approached Olivia and wanted her to move from stage to screen.
Olivia, who was still reading, hesitated for a while and seriously thought about what she was thinking.
In the end, she decided to carry out the road of acting to the end and cherish the hard-won opportunity.
On November 12, 1934, Olivia signed a contract with Warner Bros.
Her film career officially kicked off, but her struggle had only just begun.
Don't be a "silly white sweet" hardcore queen
The movie version of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" was rave reviews, and she became a newcomer to Warner Bros.
In 1935, she played the heroine of the action film Captain Predator, the brave and decisive Bishop Arabella.
The film was nominated for 'Best Picture' at the Academy Awards that year, and Olivia became a hot female star, and she was only 19 years old.
In order to work with Olivia deeply, Warner Bros. persuaded her to renew her contract and changed the contract to 7 years.
Subsequently, she starred in a large number of romantic love movies, the heroine is sweet and lovely, all long for beautiful love, and finally they all got their wish to marry as desired.
Although these movies have brought her countless popularity, Olivia is not willing to take on these "silly white sweet" roles.
As a real actress, Olivia did not rejoice in the steady stream of film contracts, she had her own opinions.
She wants to play a role of spiritual independence, not attached to men, and self-directed in her destiny, just like the heroine of "Captain Iron".
It's just that there are too few opportunities like this, and the film company hopes that she can go well in the "silly white and sweet" persona.
In 1938, filmmaker David M. Selznick decided to start filming Gone with the Wind.
The actresses are all vying to play the heroine Scarlett, but Olivia is partial to the supporting actress Melanie.
Melanie's strength, determination, and own pursuits are exactly the roles she wants to play.
In order to get this role, Olivia always went to the boss Warner, and even went to his wife to intercede.
Finally, she got the chance.
Stills from Gone with the Wind, Olivia. black. Havreland plays Melanie
Gone with the Wind became a sensation in the world as soon as it was released, and the film became one of the highest-grossing films in American history, sweeping 10 Oscars in 1940.
Olivia was also nominated for the 12th Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Melanie.
After this movie, Olivia still only received a "silly white sweet" style love movie.
The rebellion in her bones broke out again, and she wanted to fight for herself, and she made a shocking move: strike!
As long as it wasn't the role she wanted, she refused to play it.
The company was also angry, no longer gave Olivia any scripts, and even hid her for half a year.
Finally, in 1943, her seven-year contract with Warner expired.
At the time, California law prohibited employers from hiring an employee for more than 7 years for the first time.
In the 1930s, Betty Davis sued Warner for this, but ultimately failed. Dee Havran and Davis have been friends for many years (stills from the 1942 collaboration "Sisterly Feud")
However, she got an outraging message: because of her long delay, she needed to continue to work and make up for it.
In fact, in the 20s and 40s of the last century, there was an unspoken rule in the industry: after actors signed contracts with the company, as long as they were in the period of no work, this period did not belong to the contract period.
The other actors reluctantly accepted, but the hardcore queen Olivia just did not accept defeat.
On August 23, 1943, Olivia formally sued Warner Bros. for non-compliance with the "compensation period" requirement.
In order to win the tug-of-war, she stopped all work, gathered evidence, and did all kinds of investigations.
The protracted lawsuit cost her years of savings.
On December 8, 1944, the Court of Appeals for the Second District of California ruled in favor of Olivia.
The government then enacted California Labor Code 2855, which prohibits film companies from illegally extending contracts, also known as the Dee Havran Act, named after her last name.
She won the respect of her peers and was a milestone in the advancement of Hollywood actors' rights.
The days of Hollywood studios manipulating their artists at will have passed.
She was therefore absent from work for two years under the interference of Warner Bros. until her comeback in 1946.
Soon, Olivia finally had the right to play a role she really liked.
She is the lonely and helpless mother of "Flowing Seeds", which won her the Oscar of the year;
Won the Oscar for Best Actress for her 1946 film The Seeds of the Merry Flow
She is the mad and poor psychopath in "The Snake's Den";
In December 1948, the movie "Snake's Den" appeared on the cover of Time Magazine
She is also the daughter of "Heiress" who wants to escape the control of her grumpy father, and this film has won her Oscar for best actress and golden globe award for best actress at the same time.
Later, Olivia, loyal to her heart, she acted until 1988.
In her 60-year acting career, she has left 49 touching works.
Olivia was lucky, but she did not succumb to fate, she fought all the way, and finally lived the way she wanted.
Sisters flower love to kill each other
Olivia's legend is also due to the love and killing of her sister for a century.
My sister is also an Oscar queen and has starred in "Jane Eyre" and "Letter from a Strange Woman" for Hitchcock Girls.
Joan Fontaine
Since childhood, the sisters have liked to compare, better than anyone, more able to get the love of their mother than anyone.
Perhaps because of her sister's frailty and illness, her mother has favored her eldest daughter, Olivia, and has also laid the foundation for the sisters' subsequent struggles.
The youngest daughter, who is also quite artistic, also made her debut, but in order to worry about affecting her sister's development, her mother did not allow the younger daughter to use the same name.
In the end, the younger sister had to take her stepfather's surname and change her name to Joan. Fonden, this incident became a lifelong pain for my sister.
Her autobiography, No Bed of Roses, published in 1978, also detailed their struggles.
After they both embarked on the road of acting, the two sisters fought openly and secretly, and were bound to become the most successful actresses in Hollywood.
In 1942, Olivia received an Oscar nomination for "Good Night".
Stills from "Good Nights" from left: Pauline Gaudet, Charles Boyer, And Dee Hafran
The awards were announced, but it was her own sister, Joan Fontaine, who starred in "Deep Doubt".
Joan Fontaine won the Oscar, but refused her sister's congratulations.
Joan Fontaine won the 14th Academy Award for Actress in 1941 for "Deep Doubts"
Olivia held her breath and tried desperately to hone her acting skills, and not long after, she also won an Oscar.
The relationship between the two people is also hot and cold, and sometimes some photos of sisters and angry are taken for publicity.
More often than not, I don't even bother to do superficial kung fu, and I don't say hello when I meet.
Once, when the two sisters attended an event together, the party arranged the rooms of the two together.
Joan immediately changed rooms when she learned of this, not wanting to mess with her.
In addition to their acting careers, even in their emotional lives, the two have to compete with each other.
However, the relationship between the two has always been very bumpy, and in the end, it is a very different life.
Although Joan was filled with hatred throughout her life, when Olivia was in financial crisis, she gave her a huge check.
Olivia also spoke highly of her sister as a natural actress.
But when the media asked: Will you revise it?
Both sisters unanimously denied it.
The biggest contradiction, what really broke the two apart was the death of their mother.
Joan publicly announced that she had not received any invitations to her mother's death funeral at all.
Eventually, she attended the funeral.
However, in the face of her mother's will distribution, Joan was completely chilled, and she couldn't imagine that her mother was so eccentric.
All of her mother's inheritance was inherited by her sister, who was less than half a cent herself.
Since then, Joan has rarely participated in public events, and Olivia has emigrated to France.
The two sisters are at the east and west ends of the earth, competing with each other to live longer than each other.
Joan once said that she got married before her sister and won an Oscar first, and if she even died one step ahead, then her sister would be angry.
In 2013, Joan. Fontaine died peacefully in California at the age of 97.
Olivia was so sad that she left a message: "Quitter coward."
Perhaps it is difficult for her to accept that in the future life, no one will grow and compete with her.
I hate you, but I only have you, which is the best interpretation of the sister flower.
Eventually become a generation of century beauties
Olivia has been married twice, and the love road is not smooth.
The first marriage with the American playwright Marcus Goodrich began in 1946 and lasted only 6 years.
The two had a son, Benminger Goodrich, who died of illness in 1991.
In 1955, she married Pierre Garrant, an editorial journalist for a French magazine, and gave birth to a daughter, Guissère.
The two divorced in 1979, but after the divorce, Pierre Garrant was diagnosed with cancer.
The affectionate Olivia chose to continue to care for him until his death in 1998.
After the film, Olivia has been living in France, living a simple and leisurely life, rarely appearing on screen.
Olivia's home in France
In 1979, at the Forty Years of Gone with the Wind celebration in Los Angeles, Olivia appeared with her daughter, Guiselle Garrant.
In 2003, Olivia was invited to the 75th Academy Awards.
During the commemorative footage, Olivia received a standing ovation from the audience, including President George W. Bush.
In 2006, Olivia attended the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art for her 90th birthday.
June 2017, two weeks before Havilland's 101st birthday.
In accordance with the annual British medal system, the Queen conferred the honorary title of 'Female Sir' to Olivia in recognition of her outstanding contribution.
As a result, she became the oldest female jazz in history.
She said: "This is the best birthday present I have ever received. ”
Olivia was not willing to be mediocre in her life, not afraid of oppression, and truly realized her self-worth.
Her high life and safety are precisely because of her indomitable will and the spirit of fighting with all her might.
She is a heroine among women, and she does not forget her original heart in order to "live forever".
Can't help but sigh, 80 years after "Gone with the Wind", Olivia. black. Hafran lived to be the real beauty.