Olivia de Havilland

Olivia de Havilland was a veteran actress born in July 1916 who succumbed in her sleep at the ripe age of 104. The two-time Oscar winner who notoriously played Melanie Wilkes in the all-time classic film Gone With The Wind. Along with Vivian Leigh and Clark Gable, she won her first Oscar for Best Actress in her role To Each His Own and three years later in the same category for The Heiress. She was born in Tokyo with her younger sister Joan Fontaine who was also a famous actress.

Their mother decided to move to California after finding out that her father cheated on their housekeeper. She started her career in Midsummer Night’s Dream, where she made a contract with Warner Bros. in 1935. Everything was history from then on. She appeared in a catalog including her eight films with Errol Flynn, and the duo became one of the greatest Hollywood’s ever seen.