Screen legend Olivia de Havilland, who turns 100 on Friday, is the last surviving star from “Gone with the Wind” and one of the last great stars of Hollywood’s bygone golden era.
The two-time Oscar winner and five-time Academy Award nominee came to embody the elegant glamor of the silver screen in the 1930s and 1940s.
But she also made waves with a landmark legal battle against the Hollywood studios and a secret feud with her equally famous sister, Joan Fontaine.
The 1939 box-office blockbuster “Gone with the Wind” brought de Havilland wide acclaim for her role as the noble, long-suffering Melanie, starring opposite Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable in the US Civil War epic.
Her performance as love rival to the fiery Scarlett O’Hara, played by Leigh, led to de Havilland’s first Oscar nod for best supporting actress.

Source: Arab News