How did Olivia de Havilland support herself financially?

Porn.

^Granny porn? There's a niche for all your needs.

She had “an” Onlyfans. There surprisingly quite a demand for great-granny porn

Lawsuits against Ryan Murphy, and in lieu of a trial, hefty settlements.

Couldn’t keep her legs together that old trout!

She was supposedly worth about $50M, so I don't imagine she had any problems supporting herself. She lived in the same home in Paris for decades.

Wise investments?

Olivia and her second husband Pierre Galante. He died in 1979.

One dime bag of ditch weed at a time.

Daredevil, Rose

[quote] Olivia and her second husband Pierre Galante. He died in 1979.

And here she is with her first husband:

Also Union Pension, Social Security....

She was a vile, sorry little bitch!

She rented out her pussoir like any Parisian lady would.

How could she be worth $50 million?

Residuals from "The Swarm" would have kept her living high on the hog.

R8, she tried to get rid of the guy behind her in the picture but he dogged her for years, he was one of the first celebrity stalkers and was renowned for his playing the violin at Olivia wherever she went. He was joined in his obsession by another stalker who played the saxophone along with him as they stalked Olivia all over Paris. He life was sufused by sax and violins.

^suffused

United Artists, she was one of the owners and a big stockholder.

She also had major investments from her husband.

Her townhouse in Paris was huge.

You saying she was a landlady with rooms to let?

Prostitution, Rose!!

Airbnb

What do we think, tasteful friends?

There's an underground market where wealthy foreigners pay huge sums for just one night with an established A-list movie star. You can call it high end prostitution, but they never refer to it as such. Golden Age stars especially can demand a high premium since there are so few of them. And no, age is NOT a factor. All that mattes is the "name".

What a Cunt!

I still can't believe she filed and won that lawsuit regarding "Feud."

She didn’t win it, R27.

Thanks, R28, I thought she won. Shows she had money to burn, filing that kind of lawsuit.

She was crafty and sold Gone With the Wind items n Etsy.

R20, So was her vagina.

[quote] Shows she had money to burn, filing that kind of lawsuit.

I think she took it all the way to the Supreme Court where they declined to hear the case.

She had an Etsy side hustle flogging macrame couture.

R24 that's the Malaysian embassy.

R34 She was secretly Malaysian?

Yacht gir...er, granny.

No, I think she was secretly Queen of Malaysia, hence no money problems at all. She was also secretly Muslim, natch.

[quote] She was secretly Malaysian?

Japanese!

Amsterdam day shifter.

What do you mean? Can you imagine the effect of compounding on 81 years of GWTW pay? Once your wealth makes it to a certain level, unless you are someone stupid like Mike Tyson, your wealth builds on itself and you get to the point where you couldn't spend all of your money.

Do you really believe OdH continued to make money from Gone With The Wind, R40? Have you ANY idea the way the studio system worked nearly 100 years ago? ANY??

She didn't have her teeth anymore, so she was quite a hit with the clientele.

I do like OP's picture choice. Genteel woman always dress to complement the room they will be seated in.

R41, I wasn't stating she was still making money from GWTW directly; I'm saying she was still probably earning money on some of the money she earned on GWTW. I have no idea how much she was paid for doing the movie. Even if she had saved $5,000 then and invested it, if that money averaged an 8% return (which is probably conservative), it would have been over $2.3 million now; if she averaged 12% over that time, it would be over $43 million.

Selznick paid $50,000 for the rights to gone with the wind in roughly 1937 or 1938. Adjusted for inflation that’s worth just over $900,000 in today’s money. So its easy to guess how de Havilland Had enough money to live on. She also worked steadily if not regularly in into the 60s and some of the 70s. You assume she probably needed money or was making sure her capital was preserved.

She was paid $17.87 to make GWtW. Adjusted to 2020 that is equal to $8,750,000.

Um...these appearances helped pay the bills...

You'd be surprised how much Joan Fontaine's body parts were worth.

She kept bees and sold honey.

She was a porch pirate.

[quote] She kept bees and sold honey.

What type of bees?

According to her sister, Joan Fontaine, Olivia had emotional and financial problems in the early 1960s. Joan loaned her money. Also, Joan suggested her own agent, who arranged public appearances, live theatre and TV projects. Olivia was offered many projects and worked even more than Joan. Olivia paid back the loan. Joan’s autobiography, “No Bed of Roses”, is fascinating and well written.

With a steel safe shaped like a large divan.

Cooking and disturbing meth, Rose.

Broke her hip while TikTok dancing and it was a rapid decline after that.

Some people don't seem to realize that you can create a fortune from smart investments and frugal living. I'm sure people like her have access to world class investment advice. It's up to an individual to decide how they act with all the information. People like Johnny Depp who've earned hundreds of millions manage to lose it all while lesser known actors with way less money invest wisely and are set for life. A legendary actress as old as de Havilland had countless chances to end up with a lot of money, and obviously she did some things right.

No TV residuals for films made before 1960. No pension. She clearly invested.

It’s the oldest trick in the book, luv.

She was also in Airplane or some such horror. Anyway how much was she paid for GWTW?

Dataloungers love to pretend to be in the 1%, but so many exhibit the mindset of poorsies. Surely Livvie had crippling credit card debt! Everyone does!

BTW I got curious and looked her up on imdb. For someone who wasn't exactly the biggest star of her generation, she sure was busy. She averaged two pictures a year in the 1930s and 40s, then about one every other year into the mid 1960s.

According to wikipedia in 1936 she signed a seven year contract with Warners with a starting weekly salary of $500 (equivalent to $9,200 in 2019.)

Was there income tax in 1936? Eldergays?

[QUOTE] According to her sister, Joan Fontaine, Olivia had emotional and financial problems in the early 1960s. Joan loaned her money. Also, Joan suggested her own agent, who arranged public appearances, live theatre and TV projects. Olivia was offered many projects and worked even more than Joan. Olivia paid back the loan. Joan’s autobiography, “No Bed of Roses”, is fascinating and well written.

I don’t know if Joan was a reliable historian though. She had an axe to grind with Olivia so the whole story of lending her money could be made up.

I wonder if the two sisters reconciled before Joan’s death?

She went from MGM to MLM.

Olivia made her money the old fashioned way. She married it. I hope none of you seriously think she left Hollywood, married, and set herself up in Paris by marrying a poor man and taking in laundry. She earned a good living for herself all through her life working in film. She did not throw all that away to marry a fishmonger.

My fishmonger is rich!

[quote]My fishmonger is rich!

Well...with the price of meat what it is. When you get it.

She did it the old fashioned way. Legs in the air!

[italic]Belle de Jour[/italic]

R62 Did Olivia ever comment on Joan's autobiography?

Invest wisely, you can live quite nicely off the interest alone

Did she live in the poor section of Paris?

Interest? Some banks don't pay any interest at all.

R72 has never heard of investment portfolios.

She was born abroad to American parents...I always figured she inherited some wealth, made some money on her own, and then married a wealthy guy. Her Parisian apartment likely appreciated in value over the years, but I don't buy she was worth $50M. If that were the case she wouldn't have retained US citizenship for tax reasons.

[quote] She was born abroad to American parents

She wasn’t.

Both parents were English.

She was born in Tokyo to English parents.

So where did she get the US passport?

She came from a landed gentry family with aristocratic connections and her father was a patent attorney so perhaps there was something of an inheritance to go with her wages as an actress.

"Sophie, Countess of Wessex, and Diana, Princess of Wales, are descendants of the 1st Viscount Molesworth, as are the actresses Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine."

So. She ws a parasite?

Yes, but a nice parasite.

So did Diana leave her money? Do we know where Livie was the night of the crash? Was she in to moped riding in the tunnels of Paris back then?

Two words...

Mary Kay

R83 she was rewarded for her “duty”

Avon

This thread is amazing. Tons of sarcastic responses and immediate attempts to be funny by referencing prostitution. Seriously like 25% of all the comments are prostitution related jokes. No wonder so many people have abandoned this site. There's nothing wrong with going for a joke occasionally. If you go for a joke every single time in every single response, you're probably desperately unfunny to begin with.

Olivia made a small fortune selling Errol Flynn's used underwear on eBay.

R87, Mary!

She worked as a prostitute. Heart of gold, though.

Someone said she was a prostitute.

Une grande horizontale

I heard R87 dances lewdly for the boys at lunch time.

Sex worker. Get it right, R91.

Christ, she wasn’t a prostitute, she’s been around forever. She worked her way up and was the Madam running all the girls and boys, and with a stern hand too.

The DL commercial residuals alone kept her sitting pretty.

Good one R96.

Dancing for quarters!

I actually want to see her house... cmon tasteful friends, go find it

Turning tricks

Yes R87

do teach us to be as funny as you are

She was a lady of the night in the Bois de Boulogne.

Her lord and savior Satan provided very well for her.

Comfort woman.

She was a whore, hall monitor.

Whorin’.....

Tale as old as time.

[quote]R45 You assume she probably needed money or was making sure her capital was preserved.

Livvy had to borrow money from her sister at some point (I assume the 60s or 70s), so she wasn’t always liquid.

This was during one of their civil periods. So, maybe prior to their mom dying (1975)... which reopened the floodgates of vitriol.

[quote]R71 Did she live in the poor section of Paris?

Oh, Yes. The absolute worst. And she was occasionally spotted selling pencils and matches in the street.

Said she was researching a role, when recognized.

Jinah

One word: murder hornets.

She frequently conspired with Jackie on Assistance (and later Lee Radziwil) to cheat

the fashion houses of Paris of millions of francs

That hand painted dress got gravy spilled it at dinner before the awards, but it blended in with the pattern.

Luckily, Joan was nowhere in sight at the time, or a dislocated jaw would have been added to the menu.

So many returns: no one famous pays for anything. C'mon.

Who eats gravy on Oscar day.

Here we go: did she call it gravy; or did she call it sauce?

You ain't 'eard it from me, but she were a mean ol' bitch, she were

She wore 'em off-brand Depends, you know

She even made us 'ang 'em up to dry so she could reuse 'em over and over again

Made the 'hole flat reek of stale piss and dirty pussy

She pimped out young Natalie Wood to Kirk Douglas

and arranged other similar illicit liaisons

She did streaming foot fetish porn.

In the 1960s

she worked briefly as a Hair Model

showing off the latest bouffant hairstyles

Princess Lee?

She ran a one-woman courier service through the arrondissements of Paris, delivering packages of drugs hither and yon to various junkies.

And she hid them in her vagina.

She met a big financier and she's...

She was the finest chanteuse in all the 4th arrondissement.

Jesus — in that piece in r116 she was already middle aged ... and it was fucking NINETEEN SIXTY TWO.

Sorry meant r119

Princess Grace looks possessed in that photo at R119.

She used to shoot up with Edith Piaf then they’d troll the streets of Paris looking for generou$ gentlemen. Sometimes Erna would accompany them.

Princess Grace was already getting fat in 1962?

She had a cheating husband, a French staff she both hated and couldn’t comprehend, and no reason to diet as she wasn’t competing for roles anymore. So she gradually put on weight.

She was an organ grinder until her monkey, Joan, died. Very lucrative.

She was loaded.

Even with all the laxatives and suppositories.

She'd come to your Gone with the Wind viewing party if she could sell Tupperware during the Intermission.

She used to work for me at this little gas station I ran in Hollywood, see, in the 40s.

She was the Fraus' Frau.

She was also understudy to Joan Sims for years. Many $$$

She invested heavily in Apple and PornHub.

She ran one of the classiest brothels in Paris. Ironically, it was called Miss Scarlet's.

She had a hot bed scene with hunky Bekim Fehmiu in "The Adventurers" when she was 54.

In her later years Miss Olivia ran an exclusive laundromat and haired a stable of young Asian men to help her operate it - here is her favorite:

R87 see what happens when you poke a hornets nest? Next time you’ll know better.

Hit Lady! And she never misses.

[quote] see what happens when you poke a hornets nest?

A swarm of them comes R87’s way.

[quote]In her later years Miss Olivia ran an exclusive laundromat and haired a stable of young Asian men to help her operate it - here is her favorite:

You might say he is Miss Livvy's "Ancient Chinese Secret"

She sold Longaberger baskets.

She had her own lemonade stand in the 13th arrondissement, Miss Melanie’s Limonade. On special occasions she also offered Mint Juleps, but you had to slip her a five Euro note under the table for those.

Livvy was a devout Christian - all these stories about her being a prostitute are hogwash.

Reports are now coming out that they found a Baby Jesus Buttplug inside her.

She was born old. I bet she was the hall monitor in school.

^ They didn't have schools then it was so long ago. they had temples. She was a temple dancer.