Olivia de Havilland – Career in Pictures

Friday is Follies day at Once Upon a Screen, but today I forego the usual, themed pictorial to honor the legendary Olivia de Havilland on her 100th birthday. I’m calling this a career retrospective in images as every single one of Ms. de Havilland’s films – from Ray Enright’s Alibi Ike (1935) to Charles Jarrott’s 1988 TV movie, The Woman He Loved, – is represented.

Bon anniversaire, Ms. de Havilland!

“There’s something about Olivia de Havilland that has always set her apart from other actresses. Maybe it’s the combination of warmth, sensitivity and intelligence she conveys, or the way her good looks have always been further enhanced by the ever-present twinkle in her eyes or the wisdom you sense behind those orbs.” – Robert Osborne

Her career in pictures…

In The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex 1939

Olivia de Havilland hair and make up test for The great Garrick 1937

Olivia de Havilland in A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1935

Olivia de Havilland, Ian Hunter, Bonita Granville & Peter Willes %22Call It a Day%22 (1937)

Pat O'Brien, Olivia de Havilland, Frank McHugh in The Irish in Us

with Flynn in The Charge of the Light Brigade

With George Brent and John Payne in Wings of the Navy 1939

with Jeffrey Lynn in the film 'My Love Came Back' 1940

%22The Dreamer%22 number in Thank Your Lucky Stars with George Tobias and Ida Lupino.

As a bride in They Died with their Boots on 1941

Henry Fonda, Olivia de Havilland, and Jack Carson in The Male Animal 1942

Olivia de Havilland and Rita Hayworth between scenes of %22The Strawberry Blonde%22

Olivia de Havilland costume test as Charlotte Bronte for Devotion (released 1946)

Portrait of Olivia de Havilland and Errol Flynn for Santa Fe Trail

With AAnne Shirley in Government Girl (1943)

With Cagney in The Strawberry Blonde 1941

With Charles Boyer & Paulette Goddard Hold Back the Dawn (1941)

With Errol in They Died With Their Boots On 1941

With Frank Sinatra in 1955's Not As A Stranger.

With Henry Fonda in The Male Animal 1942

With Ida Lupino and Nancy Coleman in Devotion (1946)

With Ray Milland in %22The Well-Groomed Bride%22 (1946)

Airport '77 - Publicity still with Joseph Cotten, Jack Lemmon and others

As Dowager Empress Maria in Anastasia- The Mystery of Anna 1986

As the Queen Mother in The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana

George Hamilton, Olivia de Havilland, Rossano Brazzi and Yvette Mimieux - from Light in the Piazza

Olivia de Havilland in publicity portrait for the film 'That Lady', 1955.

Publicity still for The Woman He Loved 1988 with Jane Seymour & Anthony

With Bekim Fehmiu in The Adventurers 1970

With Bette in Hush Hush, Sweet Charlotte

With Myrna Loy in The Ambassador's Daughter 1956

With Richard Burton in My Cousin Rachel 1952

With Robert Mitchum in Not as a Stranger.

With the cast of Anastasia- The Mystery of Anna 1986

A golden of the Golden Age.,

If you missed my previous radio tribute to Olivia de Havilland you can check it out here. There are several musts there of the old-time radio variety and I guarantee her sounds are as compelling as her sights.

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