Olivia de Havilland - biography

“The TV business is soul crushing, talent destroying and human being destroying.”

“Famous people feel that they must perpetually be on the crest of the wave, not realising that it is against all the rules of life.  You can’t be on top all the time, it isn’t natural.”

“Playing good girls in the 30s was difficult, when the fad was to play bad girls.  Actually I think playing bad girls is a bore; I have always had more luck with good girl roles because they require more from an actress.”

“The one thing that you simply have to remember all the time that you are there, is that Hollywood is an oriental city.  As long as you do that you might survive.  If you try to equate it with anything else you’ll perish.”

“We were like a stock company at Warners.  We didn’t know any of the stars from the other studios.”

Olivia de Havilland has appeared in the following films:
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1935)
Captain Blood (1935)
The Irish in Us (1935)
Alibi Ike (1935)
Anthony Adverse (1936)
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)
It’s Love I’m After (1937)
The Great Garrick (1937)
Four’s a Crowd (1938)
Gold Is Where You Find It (1938)
Hard to Get (1938)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
Dodge City (1939)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Raffles (1939)
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)
My Love Came Back (1940)
Santa Fe Trail (1940)
Hold Back the Dawn (1941)
The Strawberry Blonde (1941)
They Died with Their Boots On (1941)
In This Our Life (1942)
The Male Animal (1942)
Princess O’Rourke (1943)
The Heiress (1949)
My Cousin Rachel (1952)
Not as a Stranger (1955)
That Lady (1955)
The Proud Rebel (1958)
Libel (1959)
Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)
Lady in a Cage (1964)
The Extraordinary Seaman (1969)
The Adventurers (1970)
Pope Joan (1972)
Airport ’77 (1977)
The Swarm (1978)
The Fifth Musketeer (1979)