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...also that Olivia de Havilland earned an award for being an illegitimate mother...
...screened out Charlie Chaplin, Orson Welles and others politically repulsive to the Colonel. Walter Wanger had declined the invitation. But the 130 names circling the glass-enclosed room overlooking Hedda's swimming pool were as glittering as any ever mobilized by Hollywood on such short notice-Olivia de Havilland, Deborah Kerr, Gary Grant, Irene Dunne, Frank Sinatra, Lana Turner, Tyrone Power...
Oscar-Winner Olivia de Havilland told an interviewer that she had been reading a lot of books between scripts and had made a discovery: "It's the adjectives that count...
...Olivia de Havilland, in accepting the Best Actress Award (for her work in To Each His Own), came onstage as gauzy and misty-eyed as a Walt Disney angel. She began with a ten-second acceptance speech of simple thanks, fought for control, lost, talked on for another ten seconds and still another. Later, when her sister, Joan Fontaine, rushed backstage to congratulate her, Olivia froze and moved away. (The girls were standoffish even before Joan beat out Olivia for the 1941 Oscar...
...Dark Mirror. Suave whodunit with Olivia de Havilland and Lew Ayres (TIME...