Which film actress was the sister of Olivia de Havilland?
"Barrier"" is based upon this event. Geoffrey was succeeded as Chief Test Pilot by John Cunningham. Geoffrey was a cousin of the actresses Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine. In 1933, he married Gwendoline Maud Alexander. They divorced in 1942, and in 1943 he married Pipette Marion Scott Bruford. There were no children of either marriage. Geoffrey's brother John de Havilland was also a test pilot for de Havilland and was killed in an accident while flying a Mosquito in 1943. Geoffrey de Havilland Jr. Geoffrey Raoul de Havilland Jr., OBE (18 February 1910 – 27 September 1946) was a"
"Lilian Fontaine Lilian Augusta Fontaine (née Ruse, formerly de Havilland; 11 June 1886 – 20 February 1975) was an English actress and mother of Academy Award-winning American actresses Dame Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine. Fontaine was born in Reading, Berkshire. She received a scholarship from Reading College at age 13 for her musical talent and studied acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. After a stage career Fontaine married the British patent attorney Walter de Havilland (1872–1968). Her first daughter, Olivia, was born in 1916, followed by her second daughter, Joan, in 1917. Fontaine decided to"
"and that such portrayals are protected by the First Amendment. De Havilland intends to appeal the decision to the US Supreme Court in September 2018. Olivia de Havilland Olivia Mary de Havilland (born July 1, 1916) is a British-American actress whose career spanned from 1935 to 1988. She appeared in forty-nine 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"""
"the Los Gatos Theatre workshop. Fontaine died on 20 February 1975, aged 88, of cancer. The Lilian Fontaine Garden Theatre in Saratoga, California, was named in honor of the actress, and that city's Fontaine Drive was also named in her honor. Lilian Fontaine Lilian Augusta Fontaine (née Ruse, formerly de Havilland; 11 June 1886 – 20 February 1975) was an English actress and mother of Academy Award-winning American actresses Dame Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine. Fontaine was born in Reading, Berkshire. She received a scholarship from Reading College at age 13 for her musical talent and studied acting at"
"estranged following the incident. While promoting her autobiography in 1978, Fontaine addressed the issue, stating, ""Until my adopted daughter goes back to see her parents, she's not welcome. I promised her parents. I do not forgive somebody who makes me break my word."" Fontaine and her sister, Olivia deHavilland, are the only set of siblings to have won lead acting Academy Awards. Olivia was the first to become an actress; when Fontaine tried to follow her lead, their mother, who allegedly favored Olivia, refused to let Joan use the family name. Subsequently, Fontaine had to invent a name, taking first"
"Olivia de Havilland filmography The Olivia de Havilland filmography lists the film appearances of American actress Olivia de Havilland, as well as her television, stage, and radio credits. De Havilland's career spanned fifty-three years, from 1935 to 1988. During that time, she appeared in forty-nine 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"
"Joan Burfield, and later Joan Fontaine. Biographer Charles Higham records that the sisters had an uneasy relationship from early childhood, when Olivia would rip up the clothes Joan had to wear as hand-me-downs, forcing Joan to sew them back together. A large part of the friction between the sisters allegedly stemmed from Fontaine's belief that Olivia was their mother's favorite child. De Havilland and Fontaine were both nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1942. Fontaine won for her role in Alfred Hitchcock's ""Suspicion"" over deHavilland's performance in ""Hold Back the Dawn"". Higham states that Fontaine ""felt guilty"
"any streaming/airing of this series is currently stopped by restraint order from lower California courts until Olivia de Havilland can be heard by the United States Supreme Court on whether producers had the right to use her likeness without permission although she is a public figure. She is played by Catherine Zeta-Jones. Joan Crawford Joan Crawford (born Lucille Fay LeSueur; March 23, c. 1904 – May 10, 1977) was an American actress who began her career as a dancer in traveling theatrical companies before debuting as a chorus girl on Broadway, Crawford signed a motion picture contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in"
"Paris in 1969. The sisters reportedly did not completely stop speaking to each other until 1975, after their mother's funeral, to which Joan, who was out of the country, was not invited. Both sisters largely refused to comment publicly about their relationship. In a 1978 interview, however, Fontaine said of the sibling rivalry, ""I married first, won the Oscar before Olivia did, and if I die first, she'll undoubtedly be livid because I beat her to it!"" The following year, in a 1979 interview, Fontaine claimed the reason her sister and she stopped speaking to each other was that deHavilland"
"with Lou Doillon, Stephen Rea, and Chloë Sevigny in the leading roles. Sisters (1973 film) Sisters (released as Blood Sisters in the United Kingdom) is a 1972 American psychological horror-slasher film directed by Brian De Palma and starring Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt, and Charles Durning. The plot focuses on a French Canadian model whose separated conjoined twin is suspected of a brutal murder witnessed by a newspaper reporter in Staten Island. Co-written by De Palma and Louisa Rose, the screenplay for the film was inspired by the Soviet Siamese twins Masha and Dasha Krivoshlyapova and features narrative and visual references"
"for ""The Snake Pit"" and ""The Heiress"", the National Board of Review Award for Best Actress and the Venice Film Festival Volpi Cup for ""The Snake Pit"", and a Primetime Emmy Award for ""Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna"". Olivia de Havilland filmography The Olivia de Havilland filmography lists the film appearances of American actress Olivia de Havilland, as well as her television, stage, and radio credits. De Havilland's career spanned fifty-three years, from 1935 to 1988. During that time, she appeared in forty-nine feature films, and was one of the leading movie stars during the golden age of Classical Hollywood."
"for each period. She also lowered the pitch of her voice incrementally in each period until it became a mature woman's voice. Her performance earned her the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1946her first Oscar. According to film historian Tony Thomas, the award represented a vindication of her long struggle with Warner Bros. and confirmation of her abilities as an actress. Her next two roles were challenging. In Robert Siodmak's psychological thriller ""The Dark Mirror"" (1946), deHavilland played twin sisters Ruth and Terry Collinsone loving and normal, the other psychotic. In addition to the technical problems of showing her"
"Vivien Oakland Vivien Oakland (born Vivian Ruth Andersen; May 20, 1895 – August 1, 1958), was an American actress best known for her work in comedies in Hollywood in the 1920s and 1930s, most notably with the Hal Roach Studios. Oakland appeared in 157 films between 1915 and 1951. Born Vivian Ruth Andersen in San Francisco, California, she was the daughter of Norwegian immigrants Edward Andersen and Anna Marthine Olsen. Her siblings' names were Edward, Herbert (né Hagbart), and Edna. She was one half of the vaudeville team ""The Oakland Sisters"" with her younger sister Edna, who later performed in"
"was inducted into the Online Film & Television Association Award Film Hall of Fame. The moving-image collection of Olivia de Havilland is held at the Academy Film Archive, which preserved a nitrate reel of a screen test for ""Danton"", Max Reinhardt's never-produced follow-up to ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"" (1935). De Havilland, as a confidante and friend of Bette Davis, is featured in the series ""Feud: Bette and Joan"", portrayed by Catherine Zeta-Jones. In the series, deHavilland reflects on the origins and depth of the Davis-Crawford feud and how it affected contemporary female Hollywood stars. On June 30, 2017, a day"
"she continued to act until her last performance in 1994. Having won an Academy Award for her role in ""Suspicion"", Fontaine is the only actor to have won an Academy Award for acting in a Hitchcock film. Furthermore, she and her sister remain the only siblings to have won major acting Academy Awards. Joan de Beauvoir deHavilland was born on 22 October 1917, in Tokyo, Japan, to English parents. Her father, Walter de Havilland (1872–1968), was educated at the University of Cambridge and served as an English professor at the Imperial University in Tokyo before becoming a patent attorney. Her"
"the Master of the King's Music, Sir Walter Parratt, and toured England with the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. Olivia's paternal cousin was Sir Geoffrey deHavilland (1882–1965), an aircraft designer and founder of the de Havilland aircraft company. Lilian and Walter met in Japan in 1913 and were married the following year; the marriage was not a happy one due in part to Walter's infidelities. DeHavilland was born on July 1, 1916. They moved into a large house in Tokyo, where Lilian gave informal singing recitals for the European colony. Olivia's younger sister Joan (born Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland)later known"
"of Gracie Williams, York's fiancée, but York wanted an actress who neither smoked nor drank. Leslie eventually got the part. ""Sergeant York"" was a critical and financial success, becoming the highest-grossing movie of 1941. It received 11 Academy Awards nominations and Cooper won the Best Actor Award. Cooper was 24 years her senior. ""Gary gave me a doll on the set,"" Leslie later told the ""Toronto Star"". ""That’s how he saw me."" Leslie had a supporting role in ""The Male Animal"" (1942). She played Olivia de Havilland's younger sister, Patricia Stanley, a role Gene Tierney had played in the original"
"look the same but have different psychological attitudes."" ""Dark Mirror"" was remade as a TV film in 1984, with Jane Seymour as the twins, Stephen Collins as the Psychiatrist and Vincent Gardenia as the cop. The Dark Mirror (film) The Dark Mirror is a 1946 American film noir psychological thriller film directed by Robert Siodmak starring Olivia de Havilland as twins and Lew Ayres as their psychiatrist. The film marks Ayres' return to motion pictures following his conscientious objection to service in World War II. De Havilland had begun to experiment with method acting at the time and insisted that"
"for a ""Baby Jane"" ""follow-up"", ""Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte"" (1964), despite a hyped, somewhat exaggerated feud. But genuine mutual dislike between the two actresses led to Crawford bowing out. She was replaced by Olivia de Havilland, who knew how to get along with Davis. Veteran actresses Agnes Moorehead and Mary Astor also appeared in the film. In ""Charlotte"", Davis was not only the one going insane, but was the ""officially"" sympathetic character, who is gaslit by her cousin (De Havilland) and her doctor, the cousin's lover (Joseph Cotten). In this movie, Davis' character is again haunted by guilt, though this"
"turned down the role of Elizabeth, and Olivia de Havilland was cast. David Hempstead was initially scheduled to produce the film, but when he had to bow out because of scheduling conflicts, Dudley Nichols stepped in, in his first film where he was both director and producer. Sonny Tufts, borrowed from Paramount to star, was paired with Olivia de Havilland, who had run into studio politics at Warner Bros. on her last feature, ""Princess O'Rourke"" (1943) that had resulted in first, her suspension, and subsequent ""assignment"" by studio boss Jack L. Warner to producer David O. Selznick in return for"
"and luxury but makes no sexual demands on her. A common motif in Hollywood's woman's films is that of the doppelgänger sisters (often played by the same actress), one good and one bad who vie for one man as Bette Davis in her double role in ""A Stolen Life"" (1946) and Olivia de Havilland in ""The Dark Mirror"" (1946). The good woman is portrayed as passive, sweet, emotional, and asexual whereas the bad woman is assertive, intelligent, and erotic. The conflict between them is resolved with the defeat of the bad woman. A central element of the 1980s British woman's"
"Alaina Reed Hall Alaina Reed Hall (November 10, 1946 – December 17, 2009) was an African-American singer and actress best known for her roles as Olivia Robinson, Gordon's younger sister, on the long-running children's television series ""Sesame Street"", and as Rose Lee Holloway on the NBC sitcom ""227"". Hall was born Bernice Ruth Reed in Springfield, Ohio on November 10, 1946. In the mid-1960s, she attended Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, where she was active in many productions at KSU's E. Turner Stump Theater. These included ""The Streets of New York,” ""It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman!,” and"
"Melanie Hamilton Melanie Hamilton Wilkes is a fictional character first appearing in the novel ""Gone with the Wind"" by Margaret Mitchell. In the 1939 film she was portrayed by Olivia de Havilland. Melanie is Scarlett O'Hara's sister-in-law and eventually her best friend. Melanie was born in 1843 or 1844. She and her brother Charles are among the last members left of the wealthy Hamilton family. The family has always valued education and sought to provide its members with the finest available. As a result, they have gained a reputation for producing a fair number of intellectuals and several noted lawyers."
"seven years later and was buried in Chapel of the Pines Crematory. Vivien Oakland Vivien Oakland (born Vivian Ruth Andersen; May 20, 1895 – August 1, 1958), was an American actress best known for her work in comedies in Hollywood in the 1920s and 1930s, most notably with the Hal Roach Studios. Oakland appeared in 157 films between 1915 and 1951. Born Vivian Ruth Andersen in San Francisco, California, she was the daughter of Norwegian immigrants Edward Andersen and Anna Marthine Olsen. Her siblings' names were Edward, Herbert (né Hagbart), and Edna. She was one half of the vaudeville team"
"Princess O'Rourke Princess O'Rourke is a 1943 American romantic comedy filmdirected and written by Norman Krasna (in Krasna's directorial debut), and starring Olivia de Havilland, Robert Cummings and Charles Coburn. Krasna won the 1944 Academy Award for Writing: Original Screenplay. Although conceived as a vehicle for de Havilland, ""Princess O'Rourke"" turned out to be a troubled project that led to the de Havilland Law, that changed the status of contracts in the U.S. film industry. Filmed in 1942, the release was held up for one year due to legal issues that resulted from the production. During World War II, Princess"
"Awards and won its star, Olivia de Havilland, her second Oscar. Wyler himself was nominated for Best Screenplay for ""Detective Story"" (1951), another film directed by his brother and a controversial hit in its day. He was involved as an associate producer on most of his brother's films through the 1950s, such as ""Roman Holiday"" (1953) and ""Friendly Persuasion"" (1956). Then 47-year-old Wyler married 24-year-old actress Cathy O'Donnell on April 11, 1948. They had met two years earlier, while she was being directed by his brother in ""The Best Years of Our Lives"". She died in 1970, on their 22nd"
"Olivia de Havilland and George Hamilton, playing a mentally disabled girl. The film lost money but was well regarded critically. She had a small part in ""The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm"" (1963), another commercial disappointment. Also later that year, she appeared in ""Diamond Head"" for Columbia, as well as ""Toys in the Attic"", co-starring Dean Martin, based on the play by Lillian Hellman. While at MGM, Mimieux made a cameo in ""Looking for Love"" (1964) and played Richard Chamberlain's love interest in ""Joy in the Morning"" (1965), a melodrama. She was in a Western, ""The Reward"" (1967), the"
"Warner later recalled, ""Olivia, who had a brain like a computer concealed behind those fawn-like eyes, simply went to my wife and they joined forces to change my mind."" Warner relented, and deHavilland was signed to the project a few weeks before the start of principal photography on January 26, 1939. Set in the American South during the 19th century, the film is about the strong-willed daughter of a Georgia plantation owner in love with the husband of her sister-in-law, Melanie, whose kindness stands in sharp contrast to those around her. According to film historian Tony Thomas, deHavilland's skillful and"
"Miguel de Allende, Mexico on January 19, 2018 after a heart attack. Olivia Cole Olivia Carlena Cole (November 26, 1942 – January 19, 2018) was an American actress. Cole was born in Memphis, Tennessee, the daughter of Arvelia (née Cage), a tennis player and instructor and William Calvin Cole, a worker for Grumman. After graduating from Manhattan’s Hunter College High School in 1960, she studied drama at Bard College in New York and earned a scholarship to attend the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, where she graduated with honors in 1964. After returning to the United States, she"
"on having his brother, William, produce the film, with his past success of ""Captains of the Clouds"" (1942) proving that he could move from acting to producing. After their work on ""The Strawberry Blonde"" (1941), the Cagneys also brought in Julius and Phil Epstein to ""invigorate"" the script. Davis wasn't the first choice for the Joan Winfield part, as Ann Sheridan, Ginger Rogers and Rosalind Russell were considered before the role was earmarked for Olivia de Havilland. With the backing of Hal Wallis, however, Davis got the coveted role. Principal photography took place in the Death Valley, California in January"
"love for Scarlett. She then dies immediately. Melanie's death serves as a catalyst for the final phase of Scarlett's character growth in the book. Scarlett mourns Melanie's death, and unselfishly thanks God for not allowing the dead woman to know about Ashley's emotional involvement with herself. Melanie Hamilton Melanie Hamilton Wilkes is a fictional character first appearing in the novel ""Gone with the Wind"" by Margaret Mitchell. In the 1939 film she was portrayed by Olivia de Havilland. Melanie is Scarlett O'Hara's sister-in-law and eventually her best friend. Melanie was born in 1843 or 1844. She and her brother Charles"
"My Cousin Rachel (1952 film) My Cousin Rachel is a 1952 American mystery-romance film directed by Henry Koster and starring Olivia de Havilland, Richard Burton, Audrey Dalton, Ronald Squire, George Dolenz and John Sutton. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Daphne du Maurier. Twentieth Century-Fox obtained the rights to film the novel, with Burton agreeing to star in a U.S. film for the first time. Production was troubled when du Maurier and original director George Cukor were dissatisfied with the adaptation, causing Cukor to leave the project. ""My Cousin Rachel"" received some positive reviews"
"her film career, deHavilland continued her work in the theatre, appearing three times on Broadway, in ""Romeo and Juliet"" (1951), ""Candida"" (1952), and ""A Gift of Time"" (1962). She also worked in television, appearing in the successful miniseries, """" (1979), and television feature films, such as """", for which she received a Primetime Emmy Award. During her film career, deHavilland 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"