“The life of the love interest is really pretty boring,” Academy Award-winning actress Olivia de Havilland told the Academy of Achievement in 2006.
That may have been true for the beloved silver screen star. But, life with de Havilland as your love interest would never have been boring!
De Havilland, a gay icon and one of Old Hollywood’s last surviving stars, died on July 26 at age 104 at her home in Paris. It’s hard to believe that de Havilland is no longer with us.
We know movie stars, no matter how stellar, will fade away. But, somehow, we expected de Havilland to always be there. Like many of her aficionados, I first knew de Havilland as Melanie Hamilton in “Gone with the Wind.” I saw the 1939 Civil War epic when I was 10.