The death has been announced of actress Olivia de Havilland. A two-time Oscar winner, de Havilland died weeks after her 104th birthday.
De Havilland's career started in 1935 when she acted in Warner Bros.' version of A Midsummer Night's Dream, although the studio released another of her movies first, Alibi Ike opposite Joe E. Brown.
One of her most frequent co-stars was Errol Flynn; the two made nine movies together, including the classic The Adventures of Robin Hood:
Her first Oscar nomination came in the Supporting Actress category for Gone With the Wind, where she played Melanie Wilkes; wife of Ashley (Leslie Howard). De Havilland lost to her co-star Hattie McDaniel.
Her first Best Actress nomination came two years later in Hold Back the Dawn, playing a teacher in love with refugee Charles Boyer.
De Havilland lost to her sister, Joan Fontaine, which led to a lifelong rift between the two. De Havilland would go on to win, of course, first for To Each His Own, and then for The Heiress:
Later in her career, she's play opposite good friend Bette Davis in Hush, Hush... Sweet Charlotte and get roped into lousy all-star disaster pics like The Swarm:
TCM's Summer Under the Stars begins on Saturday and de Havilland was not selected this year, I believe, so either they'll preempt somebody or else give de Havilland a 24-hour tribute in September.
