OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND

Actress Olivia de Havilland was one of the last remaining actresses from Hollywood’s Golden Age, before passing away at the elderly age of 104. Being given credit for almost 50 feature films in the span of a long career spanning more than 50 years, her most notable film appearance in the 1939 classical drama film Gone with the Wind as Melanie Hamilton. She also starred in films such as The Snake Pit and The Heiress, for which she won accolades. Her younger sister, Joan Fontaine, was also an actress.

De Havilland was the oldest performer to have won an Oscar Award. Considered as a central figure in the reshaping of the Hollywood industry, she was instrumental in giving actors and actresses a better share for their hard work, forcing labels, studios, and executives to provide better contracts for them, a system that we can still see today.