Breaking....Dame Olivia finally says goodbye

See you in hell, Livvy

[quote]See you in hell, Livvy

I still won, bitch.

So young.

Weird nothing from the mainstream news channels but here's another one.

So what was on her Victrola?

Does she lead or end the Oscars death roll?

Awww RIP Hollywood Queen

Or does she, for living that long, get a tribute segment?

So old.

So young.

I've gotten us a special seating for brunch, dear. You're just in time.

It'll be heavenly!

She's still stuck in that elevator frantically pushing the "up " dutton to no avail.

My god, I honestly never thought I'd see this day.

We know

Well, now Ryan Murphy can do the Feud miniseries about Joan and Olivia without fear of reprisals.

Could this possibly be wrong?

No mainstream media has anything and, not that it has anything in common with quality control, but Wikipedia isn't even calling her dead. And Wikipedia generally posts that you're dead within seconds of your actually dying.

r14, I feel the same way.

R17 that requires a fan base outside of an obscure gay gossip site.

Has anybody asked ME how I am?

Has Steve Kornacki called it yet?

Nobody outside of DL has any idea who she is.

Like Debbie Reynolds, she seemed to have had a career through sheer will. No one really asked for them, and no one really missed them when they faded.

DL!

The time has come to pick a new aged hollywood legend to tell us someone is So Young.

Think carefully my bitches.

R10, Norman Lloyd’s 106th birthday isn’t until November 8.

Until AP or CNN calls it, she's not dead. We need to get on Twitter a la Naya Rivera, bitches! #ConfirmOlivia

The other weird thing is nothing published so far cites a source.

As an avid TCM fan, this saddens but doesn’t surprise me, obviously. She was in enough major movies to warrant her own Oscars tribute, I would think.

Why did she reject the United States?

I don't know all of the drama on why so many on DL hate her. can someone fill me in without being snarky? like the facts on why she is so hated?

So yo...

Oh, wait. That's me.

Its fake.

R29... she married a French magazine publisher called Pierre Galante and moved there. And loved it.

R15 You're sharing a 3 month old joke thread

[quote] She’s gone. Olivia de Havilland has gone. Showing, to the very end, the grit with which she took on the Hollywood studio system and won. I had one of the most perfect days of my life in her company. Sitting on that chaise, eating macaroons and gossiping about Errol Flynn.

And, following protocol, when it does happen the thread is properly called Olivia de Havilland is dead to me.

Show a little respect, OP.

Cause of death: Swarm of killah bees.

So she's still here. Good.

It was the joy of my life portraying such an aging, ELDERLY legend in "Feud: Starring Catherine Zeta-Jones!"

she aged better than madame x

R36

R15 is correctly titled

Do fuck off, R22, you ignorant slut.

Entertainment Weekly confirms her DEATH. REAL DEATH, not Internet fake story.

[quote]Olivia de Havilland, classic star of Hollywood, died peacefully in her sleep on Saturday.

[quote] The time has come to pick a new aged hollywood legend to tell us someone is So Young.

If it must be an actress, then I suppose Betty White is the obvious choice.

Otherwise, I vote for Prince Phillip.

R41 it may be, but it was posted 3 months ago, so it is not the "we know" thread. We did NOT know.

[quote] The time has come to pick a new aged hollywood legend to tell us someone is So Young.

Norman Lloyd who is 105 going on 106 is the next one.

Nooooo! Taken too soon!

entertainment weekly

R15 et al. Must be trying to be funny.

R48 see R43.

Well, I'm not sure anybody can replace her. As Vivien Leigh was to Scarlett O'Hara, Olivia de Havilland was to So young.

One of the few dames I knew who where the carpet matched the drapes.

I’ll have a Helenesque for you tonight, honey.

gurl, BYE!

R17 Wikipedia just updated it.

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I can't believe no one has posted the Princess Diana is dead scream yet.

Is this confirmed? None of the mainstream new sources are confirming it. Entertainment Weekly is about the only kind of mainstream new source that is reporting it.

R57 For you, and for the big O.

Slo mo, of course

Betty White is fun and funny, but lacks the requisite glamour and hauteur of a DL icon.

I honestly can't think of anyone to fill Olivia's satin pumps just yet.

It's a shame when young performers are cut down in their prime

Variety

[quote]Does she lead or end the Oscars death roll?

Kirk Douglas was at the end of this year's death roll. She'll probably be at the end next year.

[quote]Does she lead or end the Oscars death roll?

Kirk Douglas was at the end of this year's death roll. She'll probably be at the end next year.

Any comment from Gable or Leigh?

Has Orange It tweeted about this loss to confederate filmdom?

That's an example of an internet claim that somehow becomes a "fact" r56.

That pic was for not from her 104th birthday. The year prior it was also reported to be from her 103rd birthday. The truth is it's about 10 years old.

Prediction for the next three celeb deaths, Barbara Walters, Cicely Tyson, and Shannen Doherty.

Hey OP...Check your sources before you post.

Don't forget Betty White and Paul McCartney, R68. Dead by the years end.

What was on her Edison Cylinder Phono-graph?

This is the link I meant to include

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

So no major Hollywood stars of the Golden Era are left? I always lived in comfort knowing that Olivia was still alive.

At least she outlived Kirk Douglas.

I don't think Betty White will make it to year's end. I'm trying to prepare myself. I imagine it would be hard to keep going at that age coupled with quarantine.

But how fares Miss Schuster?

Betty White will be the closing celeb death on December 31st.

R.I.P. A true DL icon.

The BBC alerted and filed.

I can't believe she's gone

At least she can now keep Bette company.

R73 I beg your fucking pardon?!

[quote] It feels very sad that Olivia de Havilland has died, when in fact its absolutely extraordinary and incredible that in the year 2020 Olivia de Havilland was still alive.

It always tickled and astonished me to know that Melanie Wilkes from GWTW was still alive. I am truly a little sad now. Im dying to know what GWTW memorabilia she might have had !

RIP

R69 whatever ARE you talking about?

All of the major female Hollywood actresses of the 30's,40's and 50's are dead now! Mary!

Why did she live in Paris, of all places?

[quote]All of the major female Hollywood actresses of the 30's,40's and 50's are dead now! Mary!

60s next, gurl.

Vanity Fair..

R96 go fuck yourself!

[quote]In 2015, the late Olivia de Havilland opened up about 'Gone With the Wind,' her Oscar wins and losses, swooning for Errol Flynn, and more:

When even our favorite 70s and 80s new wave musicians are in their 60s and 70s.....actresses from the golden era of Hollywood passing are to be expected, not a surprise.

This is HORRIFIC!

It's always a bit sad when a DL icon passes away.

Her last words reportedly were:

"Be kind to Captain Butler. He loves you so."

<3

I totally thought this was a hoax. Damn, this board is going to explode!!

There’s no room down here for the old bitch. Her fat ass will crowd the joint and make it hotter than it already is.

r86, I'm still alive, bitch!

[quote] And, following protocol, when it does happen the thread is properly called Olivia de Havilland is dead to me.

Oh, fuck off, self-appointed Hall Monitor. There's no rule book for DL, and you're certainly not the one to set them.

Please fix the DL search engine! I about had a stroke trying to find the dead ODH thread. I really thought she’d live another year, after seeing her on that bike.

And besides, the actual protocol is [name of star] is DEAD to ME! (CAPS emphasis)

She couldn't even get THAT right.

Fake news.

[quote] I don't know all of the drama on why so many on DL hate her. can someone fill me in without being snarky? like the facts on why she is so hated?

She's not hated at all. She was adored here--considered a first rate actress because of her superb performances in "The Snake Pit": and 9particularly) 'The Heiress," and honored for her bitchy hatred of her sister Joan Fontaine, which DLers always admire

The persona created for her on DL was of a snarky condescending bitch (like a drag queen), always a sure sign someone is loved and admired (See also: Meryl Streep).

MSNBC & CNN have no time for this. They are covering the 18 funeral ceremonies around the country of Congressman John Lewis..

[Quote] Off-screen, de Havilland continued to fight the good fight. She battled against Communist sympathy in Hollywood, and testified before the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

Did she name names?

I was hoping HBOMax had Snake Pit available. Alas.

Is Snake Pit a hagsploitation movie?

Is she the last of the Golden Age era actors?

R101, the bike photo was from several years ago.

Rolls eyes at R66.

TCM will certainly do a big tribute and include "The Snake Pit."

No, it's not a hagsploitation picture at all--it was a prestige picture of the late 1940s dealing with an important social problem (in this case, mental illness). By the late 40s, Olivia was starting middle age and was given only high prestige pictures, and she acted very rarely, but usually was given an AA nomination when she did.

If Dame Vera Lynn had held on a bit longer, she could have had a brief stint as DL's resident "so young" commenter.

The Heiress is her best film which also stars Montgomery Clift.

Snake Pit is a Fox movie. They don't like putting their old movies anywhere, unfortunately.

Thanks a lot BLM, did you have to remove the last statue of the Confederacy still standing?!

There's some old actors hanging on from that era, but was she last acknowledged true star of the Golden Era? If not she must be the last Oscar winner of the era?

God bless Marsha Hunt, but who the hell was Marsha Hunt?

Do we know what the most recent picture of her was? Was it that bike picture?

I’ve always been curious what a 104 year old actually looks like.

It's very interesting to see her in "The Snake Pit," and "The Heiress" because she shows how good someone could be in the old Hollywood style of acting without going Method. Bette Davis and Barbrara Stanwyck show that too in their best pictures--and Henry Fonda. They were very natural.

Somewhere in this area are two men sleeping the night away, while my pillow gets heavier and heavier with my tears.

[quote] I’ve always been curious what a 104 year old actually looks like.

Until I read her obituary I didn't know about her court case against Warner Bros.

Four those in mourning, you can get a double dose of the late Livvy in 1946’s “The Dark Mirror,” a good-bad psychological noir in which she plays TWINS!

There goes one of the only truly funny DL memes.

That didn't start with her r124.

At long last! There really could only be one Dame Olivia, and that's me!

Apparently, some DL-ers think " , , , is dead to me" has grown tiresome.

This leaves only 3 individuals still living that had a role in Gone with the Wind:

Mickey Kuhn (age 87) credited. Played son of Ashley & Melanie Wilkes.

Caren Marsh Doll (age 101) uncredited extra.

Patrick Curtis (age 82) uncredited - baby Beau.

Luise Rainer still reigns supreme as longest lived Oscar winner (by some 11 months).

......

So young.

Thank fucking christ and buddha. Olivia De Havilland sucked balls. And the fans who posted "so young" all the fucking time out here were just stupid old men who thought that was funny? They'll just start doing it about someone else now, like Angela Lansbury. Olivia de Havilland was a bad actress with that terrible plummy voice and runny runty Pekingese eyes. Very plain to look at too. RIP. At 104 you've overstayed your welcome.

Less is more, r132.

Have you tried Metamucil, R132?

The death of a child is a terrible thing! I’m going to go check in on her parents tomorrow and drop off a couple of dump dinners for the fridge and a bunch of carnations which I will let sit in a vase of water and black food coloring overnight.

I’m heading off to Aldi right now but I’m going to wait a days before posting the link to my GoFundMe. Now is not the time to think about money, so please don’t ask.

If you’d like to add a personal message to the group sympathy card from DL, I’ll be happy to include them.

I’m sure that reading their daughter’s peers’ happy memories of growing up with her will bring them great comfort in the years to come.

Again, you're trying far too hard, r135. Less would have been more.

Who will be the new Olivia? Marsha Hunt? According to her bio, she supports gay rights, so she'd make a good DL icon!

Livvy's finest work.

I like the idea of Marsha Hunt.

This is the end of an era indeed.

She just didn’t have what it takes!

R118, someone posted a photo of her at mass to the Hollywood Babylon facebook group 3 weeks ago. She looks great for 104, though obviously a bit ambushed for the photo.

After 90 most old people stop looking any older.

BOLT THE DOOR, MARIAH!

I rule all of DL now, suck my balls Muriel!

Olivia de H. was a big Hollywood star. Marsha Hunt and Norman Lloyd not so much. The next big star probably didn't get their career break until the 1940s.

She was waiting for Regis to die, and he knows why.

Gone too soon!

@PaulRudnickNY

[quote]Lindsey Graham is now the only surviving cast member from Gone With The Wind

I'm still in shock

Olivia Du Havilend had no star power. Runny eyes and little rodent teeth, missing a jawline and that ridiculous vocal affectation made her nauseating to my great grandmother's generation. And she was a mean bitch too. Suing Ryan Murphy? What a pretentious old fool. She's lucky someone as gorgeous and young as Zeta Jones gave her a glow up.

Have we had the "and ANOTHER coronavirus cover up" troll yet?

If not, bye bitch!

[quote] She's lucky someone as gorgeous and young as Zeta Jones gave her a glow up.

Correction for you:

[quote] She's lucky someone as gorgeous and eternally young as Zeta Jones gave her a glow up.

I am certain Joan and Errol were waiting for her when the elevator descended.

She's totally shaded Regis Philbin and old-school hottie John Saxon and their deaths.

And ANOTHER coronavirus cover up.

What did she die of?

Kudos to her for hanging in there until 104. She seemed like a person who always wanted to know what the morrow would bring.

It was a bungee jumping accident Rose r156.

Man, they are dropping like flies these days!

Susan Dey’s last chance for redemption.

Has Regis issued a statement yet?

What? Oh shit!

My mom met her once in the 70s. I asked what she was like and my mother said “she was very nice and also very short!”

RIP Queen!

Fuck Ryan Murphy.

She didn't deserve that Oscar for "To Each Their Own" and I never knew she was offered "A Streetcar Named Desire*

Fun fact: Catherine Deneuve's mother was Olivia's French dubbing voice - and is 108!

She was about to be canceled because of Gone with the Wind anyway.

RIP, Olivia Please kiss (on the lips with a little tongue) Errol Flynn on the other side for me, thanks ;)

Sorry, I think the accent fucked up the link.

The loveliness of Paris seems somehow sadly GAY, The glory that was Livvy is of another day!

So old

Gone too late

Melly was kind to the black people in the movie. What she could have been cancelled for was she stopped believing in God for 2 weeks after Hattie McDaniel beat her for the Oscar!

God needed another litigious angel.

[quote] And she was a mean bitch too. Suing Ryan Murphy?

I sort of love that that was one of her last acts on earth. Hilarious.

[quote]If Dame Vera Lynn had held on a bit longer, she could have had a brief stint as DL's resident "so young" commenter.

But she didn't, did she?

R137, both of our “so young” divas were multiple Oscar winning actors who were over a century old at the time. No one comes close to qualifying. Gene Hackman is the next oldest winner with multiple awards, but he just turned ninety and doesn’t have the right persona. Maggie Smith and Jane Fonda definitely do, but they have a long time to go before they hit 100. Lansbury has a single Honorary Oscar to go with her Tonys and Betty White has a boatload of Emmys, but those just aren’t good enough.

No one has the perfect combination of age, personality and hardware. “So young” should die with Livvie, to be resurrected only when either Maggie or Jane hits triple digits.

Get her in the ground before BLM gets a hold of her!

r30 I love and adore her!

R175 Angela should have had an Oscar that was stolen by that badtard Party Duke. I agree with you about Betty.

Patty Duke!

Yes, Olivia was the perfect vehicle for conveying a slight contempt in the form of grande dame expressing the obligatory condolences expected of her.

Betty White, not so much.

Gone... not soon enough

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She should have been pleased a beauty like CZJ played her and made a whole generation think she was much prettier than she ever was!

Should I be worried...?

(Norman Lloyd in Orson Welles Mercury Theater adaptation of Julius Ceasar in 1937 )

It’s about fucking time.

The end of a DL era

What was the cause of death?

I still remember when Joan Fontaine died, mostly because we had a thread at the time about how that weekend had cleared out half of Hollywood.

R165, I think Renee Simonot should be our next "so young" celebrity

R186 I'll tell you the fucking cause of death:

I have a friend who's partner was Olivia's nurse and has reliably informed me that Olivia had been feeling down and logged onto Datalounge hoping for a pick-me-up from some supportive comments from "her gays". Instead, she read the nasty comments on the thread "Olivia De Havilland is an epic bitch!", and immediately had a stroke and died

R175 -- just as the sovereign is never "dead" in the UK, "So young..." will never die on DL, dammit!

I resent that Dame Angela isn't considered good enough to be the next condoler of aged deaths. She's a much better known character than ol Livvie and certainly much more celebrated than that hack Luise Reiner!..

[quote]Olivia had been feeling down and logged onto Datalounge hoping for a pick-me-up from some supportive comments from "her gays". Instead, she read the nasty comments on the thread "Olivia De Havilland is an epic bitch!", and immediately had a stroke and died

That can happen.

Rue's killer thread was people piling on to insult her looks

She's great fun here, especially at around 2:15

How’d she die?

[quote]I don't think Betty White will make it to year's end. I'm trying to prepare myself. I imagine it would be hard to keep going at that age coupled with quarantine.

She'll die on November 2nd. It will be a needed sacrifice for the country.

Olivia was writing a book, wasn't she?

Was she holding it's publication until after her death?

Was the book titled "Ryan Murphy is a Cunt?"

RIP DL’s greatest legend

You are looking for an aged oscar winner you say? And no one has mentioned me?

Cunts.

[quote] Kudos to her for hanging in there until 104.

I see no reason to celebrate that she lived to be so BLOODY old!

In the bullfighting arena, r195.

Well, now they can finally release "Feud" on DVD.

R200 Eva you only have half an Oscar, you fuck off!

So young.

I rarely get sad at a celebrity death. But I'm sad about this. This ovation she received at the Oscars and the grace showed always made me a little teary eyed.

Lucky Bitch!

I only made it to 102

How’d she die?

—Anonymous

Fighting an oil rig fire, Rose.

She was shaped like a barrel

Is Larry King doing a special? He’s running out of guests.

Pissed that the thread title isn't "So young!" but OP was likely in a state of shock at Olivia's untimely demise.

R180 is correct. Jane Fonda and Maggie Smith have both done some great work and I admire them, but neither one has the persona. Maggie is too irritable and Jane is too business-like for either of them to play the note of gracious but very slightly malign observance. Of all the older actresses that I can think of, the only one who could have matched her for that might be Joan Bennett (I'm thinking Madame Blanc in the original Suspiria) and she died in 1990. Bennett nailed the perfect ratio of cultured civility and overt malevolence.

r212

That reminds me, I wonder if her grandson is still around here.

Dame Judi is 86 and a known bitch.

I thought you meant Dame Olivia Newton-John

SHE WAS IN THE RACIST GWTW = CONGENITAL RACIST!!!!!!!

RAISING MY WOKE WHITE FIST IN TREMBLING FURY!!!!

MELT DOWN HER HOLLYWOOD STAR. NOW!!!!!!

#OLIVIAMUSTBECANCELLED

Maybe she's been dead for months and they forgot to tell us.

Came straight over here when I saw the news!

Goodbye, Olivia, a true DL legend.

I told her to her face what I thought of her!

In honor of Dame Olivia, I’m watching The Dark Mirror, where she plays twins who share a job, but one of them is a complete innocent and other is a murderer who tortures the other.

I can’t imagine why that story appealed to her.

R216, thanks for proving that Republicans aren't funny

And here we were, just having a thread about her in Lady in a Cage too. All dishing about her big climax, wriggling across the floor, her fat little rump in the air.

Perhaps we put her over the edge? Oh dear I hope not!

Slim pickins - you dudes have a choice between Eva Marie Saint and Betty White as replacement

[quote] What did she die of?

Being seen with the Poors in R142's photo

[quote] What did she die of?

Being seen with the Poors in R142's photo.

[quote] Fighting an oil rig fire, Rose

We need a "What did Olivia de Havilland die of?" thread, just for the "___, Rose!" answers.

I'll never forget when she said she'd stopped believing in God for weeks after losing an Oscar. You just don't get that level of crazy self-absorbion nowadays.

Don’t look at me, gays

[quote] Fighting an oil rig fire, Rose.

Well it's great she was able to work right up to the end, R208.

Olivia was one of the most talented actresses ever. She also had a lot of pain and struggle throughout her life. Despite that, she had a good heart, which is hard to encounter in Hollywood. At a time when gay men were oppressed beyond belief, they identified with her struggles, and she theirs.

Ah, my heart aches as yet another legend joins the 104 club.

[quote] Ah, my heart aches as yet another legend joins the 104 club.

MARY!

R230, What pain and struggle?

R200 is right. Eva Marie Saint is now the oldest living Oscar winner (born in 1924, I think) - best supporting actress for On the Waterfront.

Joanne Woodward is oldest living Best Actress winner.

Sidney Poitier is oldest living Best Actor, and Joel Grey is oldest living Best Supporting Actor.

... but my vote goes to the ever-youthful Jane Withers.

R234, the oldest Supporting Actor winner isn’t Grey, it’s Christopher Plummer, even though he won his Oscar almost forty years after Grey. (The Supporting Actor winner who has had the award the longest is George Chakiris, who is younger than both. In all other acting categories, the oldest winner is also the earliest one to win).

So who's the oldest still alive now?

Helen Lawson

Helen Lawson - how's that tree doin' BITCH?!!

It died of Dutch elm disease in 1982.

But I'M still here, baby.

As r234 said, Eva Marie Saint is currently the oldest living oscar winner r236.

Myrna Loy is the oldest living Oscar Winner. We just don't hear about her much.

Ashley! Oh Ashley! Is it really you, darling?

NYT

Rhonda Fleming turns 97 next week. I vote for her as next icon.

At that advanced age even a small medical issue can result in death. She's fortunate to have died peacefully in her sleep.

^ duh

See you in hell very soon, you crusty, ancient whore of Babylon!

R186 She went skydiving and her parachute didn't deploy, Rose.

Why was she Skydiving at her age? At least she went quickly

Dame Olivia gave us the best reaction in cinematic history.

R245 was she getting lasik or bariatric?

Did she have “an” Onlyfans?

The funny thing is that sometimes when you've been expecting a celebrity death for ages, it's a shock when it finally comes. Amy Winehouse was like that for me.

Internal injuries sustained after rough sexplay.

My ear worm is Steiner's Tara theme... what a life.

[quote]Amy Winehouse was like that for me.

So young.

About fucking time.

What took her so long?

My tombstone will read

STILL HOLDING A GRUDGE, BITCH!

She did have two awesome scenes... where she found Butler after the fall down the stairs... she handled that beautifully. And the scene with Belle Watling after Kennedy is shot. The scene that always gets the attention is the one up the stairs with Hattie McDaniel but that's McDaniel's masterpiece, rightly - though de Havilland has a nice little moment at the end when she summons up the bravery to knock on the door.

Here's the scene with Belle... racist yes, but not without merit still... when the film is quiet instead of spectacular... there are some marvellous moments still.

Take my "pole" please as to who should replace Olivia de Havilland as the "So young" poster on DL.

I'm writing in de Havilland via Ouija Board... she owns that phrase.

Quit pushing your fake poll that only let's people for for Angela r261.

I think So Young will be carved on her head stone.

I can't stop giggling at the clip at r250.

[quote] Quit pushing your fake poll that only let's people for for Angela

Look at the results, R263. Angela is not the sole vote recipient. Perhaps it is you who are doing something wrong.

I swear some DLers think of conspiracies out of The Manchurian Candidate.

[quote]And, following protocol, when it does happen the thread is properly called Olivia de Havilland is dead to me.

Enough. It's not the entire board's problem that some of you bitches are so basic that you can't handle a thread unless it uses a 10-year-old meme for a subject line.

"OH mah GAWD I can't know she's DEAD unless you say DEAD TO ME" isn't nearly as funny as you think it is.

strawpoll dot com is the official site, what's this strawpoll dot me crap?

No, but your overreaction is tasty, R267.

Olivia de Havilland threads and posts have always cracked me up. Now who will be our youthful queen? WHO, I ASK?

R249 Let me guess -- you're a St. Olaf native? Back to the herring circus with you.

It is DL truth that she is NOT officially dead and was NOT given a proper DL burial until a “Dead to Me” thread has been performed.

Then go to the Dead To Me thread, R272.

And the 2020 disasters proceed apace.

RIP

The OBVIOUS choice is Cicely Tyson, who is 95 and fits the other critical criterion in a way that suits our day.

Black Stars Matter.

New and improved "pole". Now with additional choices.

R276, there’s this thing called a fun sponge. Are you Sylvia Fowler by any chance?

She had great hair in old age. I can tell you how important that is.

[quote] It is DL truth that she is NOT officially dead and was NOT given a proper DL burial until a “Dead to Me” thread has been performed. —rules are RULES

There IS no rule.

Fuck off and die, asshole.

But there are things called straight jackets, R279. Maybe you should try one.

Highly recommended!

It must have been cold there in my shadow.

So can I, r278.

The BBC obit on her passing claims Liv never wanted a younger sibling, and used to tear up Joan's clothes and force her to sew them back together again.

A true Datalounger, Ms. de H! :D

[quote] It is DL truth that she is NOT officially dead and was NOT given a proper DL burial until a “Dead to Me” thread has been performed.

She was 104; I think she can have a unique thread title. But god, it’s insane how angry some people get over this shit.

Wonder if Ryan Murphy will now proceed with a Joan-Olivia edition of Feud.

But there are no actresses younger than CZJ.

R286, according to this thread it's supposedly going forward:

Interesting, r288. Wonder if the estate will sue.

R276 What about me?

[quote] What about me? — Nehamia Persoff

I don't think you can pull off drag as well as Norman Lloyd. Hell, you can't even spell your first name correctly, doddering old fool. You're as sunk in DLers' consideration as a U-boat.

R106 Did she have to leave Hollywood because of her Communist battles?

So many Americans fled to England and appeared in second-rate products with B-grade leading men..

B-grade? I went on to play Dracula and Sauron!

Being Japanese is what allowed her to live so long.

A photo that says it all.

Poor Olivia always had that heart-shaped face.

She could only play Victorian period roles with big hair and crinolines. She looked awkward playing in modern dress and short skirts.

R292, she left Hollywood to live with her French husband in Paris, where she stayed. In '55 she also starred with Sinatra and Robert Mitchum in Not as a Stranger.

Livvy went to Spain to make that movie R292 two years after Joanie went to Spain to make this one—

I did not know until now that she once did an episode of the Love Boat.

She should have done an episode of Murder, She Wrote. They might have even given her a double episode like they did Jean Simmons.

[quote] So no major Hollywood stars of the Golden Era are left?

Ahem

That crazy narcissistic bitch Brenda Dickson is posting about this on her Facebook page and acting as if she and Olivia were best friends and this is a personal loss. She’s accepting condolences and talking about how Olivia was happy to the end.

[quote] All of the major female Hollywood actresses of the 30's,40's and 50's are dead now! Mary!

OMG. What is wrong with people?!

[quote]Pissed that the thread title isn't "So young!" but OP was likely in a state of shock at Olivia's untimely demise.

And the title should have opened with “Attention. Attention.”

I'm liking the "So young. Olivia de Havilland via Ouija board" option.

I think we should keep Olivia as our DL Queen and future posts in her name should be signed as "Olivia, from Hell."

Hell seems a bit excessive. Even Mrs. Patsy Ramsey is just formerly of Boulder, CO.

Oscar winner Lee Grant is either 92 or 94 years young.

[quote]Hell seems a bit excessive. Even Mrs. Patsy Ramsey is just formerly of Boulder, CO.

You didn't know her like I did.

New York Times

She looks a little like Aussie singer Tina Arena in the pic at r310.

Did she deserve her Oscar for "To Each their Own"?

It's called To Each His Own. I thought she was pretty good. Not the best Best Actress win but hardly the worst, either.

Her Competition:

NOMINEES:

CELIA JOHNSON Brief Encounter

JENNIFER JONES Duel in the Sun

ROSALIND RUSSELL Sister Kenny

JANE WYMAN The Yearling

Did anyone else know she turned down "A Streetcar Named Desire"? I never heard that before.

Is this the last photo of them taken together (from 1967)?

So, she DID speak French! I thought she was one of foreign French residents who never bothered to learn more than just a few words of the language.

Was it Olivia who never bothered to tell her sister their mother was dead?

I think Rhonda Fleming would be a fantastic replacement for Olivia in the so old post signing department.

If only someone had recognized that she was drowning and not waving she would still be with us.

No formal offer was made for Streetcar but the producers considered her seriously and had discussions with her. She thought about it but let Warners know she thought the part to distasteful to consider it further. Vivien had played the part in London and wanted to do it, so the producers were happy to go with her.

She had a hot ass but she wasn't going to live forever.

She is ascending the stairs to heaven a la the finale of The Heiress -- but this time on a stairlift.

Feel sad I posted this on Saturday, the day before she died:

[quote]I'm Olivia de Havilliand, still alive at 119, and making a guest appearance as a wealthy denizen of Cabot Cove. Jessica investigates when she suspects there was more to my passing than that swarm of killah beeees.

R323 lol

Why did she find Streetcar distasteful? She wasn't pretty enough for the role anyway.

Does Blanche have to pretty?

*Does Blanche have to be pretty?

R323 She has the fancy one that does curves!

It certainly helps!

Is she going to be buried in Pere Lechaise like all the fancy people?

[quote]Why did she find Streetcar distasteful?

Maybe she didn't like the idea of being violently raped and shuffled off to a mental hospital onscreen. Some women are just weird that way.

R331 where was the violent rape? You piece of shit.

R323 You are either dense or a troll, I know not which is worst.

Not pretty enough for a role? LOL. She was beautiful. Let's face it, part of the reason she had a career was because she was beautiful. She could act, but she wouldn't have gotten leading lady roles if she wasn't attractive

So, do you think she’s going to heaven or hell?

So does Ryan Murphy now have the legal clearance to do his next season of Feud? Will CZJ reprise her role? If so who will play the sister?

[Quote] Will CZJ reprise her role? If so who will play the sister?

Millie Bobbie Brown, of course.

True, they need to keep the ages of the sisters appropriately close, R337.

Did anyone already ask what was on her phonograph?

^ Old, Gray Mare

I think Jane Wyman should have won the Oscar for "The Yearling" the year Olivia won it for "To Each His Own." It's Wyman's all-time best performance, and one of the best women's performances from the 1940s.

The problem was in that it the 1940s the AMPAS kept voting for people for absolutely the wrong reasons (they still often do), but they would often try to make up for it by giving the award in later years to the person who should have won. De Havilland should have won in 1941 for "Hold Back the dawn" (one of her finest performances), but they gave it to Joan Fontaine instead for "Suspicion" even though thta's not a very good performance. And they gave it to Fontaine because she stood have given it to her the year before for "Rebecca," but she was too much of an unknown then, and they gave it instead to Ginger Rogers (for another inferior performance in "Kitty Foyle," which is far from Rogers's best and far below Fontaine's performance in Rebecca"). In 1946 they were rewarding De Havilland for not having won for '"Hold Back the Dawn."

[quote] She is ascending the stairs to heaven a la the finale of The Heiress -- but this time on a stairlift.

For shame! She is of course ascending to heaven in "a small, private elevator!"

RIP, Milady.

I guess TCM had that tribute all ready to go.

Her BFF Robert Osborne's tribute in 2016...

[quote]I guess TCM had that tribute all ready to go.

In fairness, the bigger surprise would be if sat on the shelf for another year. She was 104.

R317, with names like De Havilland and Fontaine, I would expect these sisters to at least have had some education in the French language.

Livvy talks smack about Sir Ralph and Monty...

Didn’t they want Marilyn for Streetcar at some point?

Livvie gets hep with Ida Lupino and Abner Kravitz...

A Streetcar Named Harlot?

[quote]Didn’t they want Marilyn for Streetcar at some point?

In 1951? Miss Casswell was "less than nobody."

she couldn’t handle the flight back and forth from France so she made it her permanent base, she would suffer from jet lag or something. She hadn’t made the flight since the 90s.

I'm surprised this thread didn't fill up to 600 posts.

It would help if DL had someone blocking mechanism from posters starting 189 threads when someone major dies or closing the others and moving the responses to the main one that has the most postings.

And also....there's been some things goin' on.

She flew to the US at least several times this century, R353--to the 75th Oscars in 2003, AMPAS and LACMA tributes in 2006, a Bette Davis centennial event at AMPAS in 2008, and to receive the National Medal of Arts.

I don't enjoy her as an actress or a personality. I've tried. But that Oscar appearance for the 75th of the Oscars was the shit. Very moving, beautiful. This would never happen today about any film or with any old film star. No such moment will ever happen again. It's nice to watch. I was too cool at the time. She seemed like such an old LADY. But now I realize that she was an old lady in 2003. She received a fantasmagorical welcome, but she knew why she was there and was extremely gracious and composed. It's a nice moment. Went with the wind.

She was a cunt to her sister and pretended in her extreme dotage and after the sister died she was anything other than that to her--even to the point of bringing a frivolous, potentially damaging lawsuit, all in an attempt for last-ditch attention and to rewrite facts.

A blight on Livvie's last years.

Mo Rocca on the feud from several years ago. The feud started around the time Hitler invaded France...