Olivia de Havilland, a legendary Hollywood Golden Age star, died at 104.
The news was confirmed to Fox News by his representative, as well as by his son-in-law Andrew Chulack.
The two-time Academy Award winner was born in 1916 and died Sunday of natural causes at her Paris home, reports The Hollywood Reporter.
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The star was the last surviving star of “Gone with the Wind,” which had recently come under scrutiny for its depiction of slavery in the pre-abolition south. De Havilland was nominated for an Oscar for her role in the film.
The actress won two Oscars in her life, one for her work on “To Each His Own” and the other for “The Heiress”.
Actress Olivia de Havilland, a legendary Hollywood star, died at the age of 104. (AP Photo / Kevork Djansezian)
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De Havilland was also the older sister of Oscar-winning actress Joan Fontaine, who died in 2013 at age 96.
While de Havilland was an on-screen legend, she was also known for taking down the Hollywood studio system when she sued Warner Bros. in 1943 after her studio contract expired.
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Her contract said she was tied to the studio when she wasn’t working as well and was suspended after turning down a handful of papers, leading to her suing the studio.
The 1945 verdict ruled that de Havilland was free from his contract and that all actors would no longer be linked to specific studies within the industry.
Olivia de Havilland disagreed with her projection of herself on Ryan Murphy’s FX show “Feud.” She filed a lawsuit against the FX networks saying that her image was used illegally by Catherine Zeta-Jones.
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Most recently, De Havilland sued FX and Ryan Murphy Productions for their performance in the miniseries “Feud: Bette and Joan,” in which she was played by Catherine Zeta-Jones.
The appeals court ruled against her, and the California Supreme Court and the United States Supreme Court did not consider an intervention warranted.
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Other roles for which the star was known include “The Adventures of Robin Hood” and “The Snake Pit”. Her most recent role was the 1988 television movie “The Woman He Loved”.
Actress Olivia de Havilland in a frame from “Gone with the Wind” in 1939 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo from Donaldson Collection / Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images)
He was married twice in his life, first to Marcus Goodrich, an author, with whom he once had a son, Benjamin. Benjamin died at the age of 42 after heart disease brought treatments for Hodgkin’s disease.
Goodrich and de Havilland’s marriage ended in 1953, and he would die only a few weeks after their son.
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Her second marriage was with the journalist Peter Galante from 1955 to 1979. She died in 1988. The marriage produced the daughter Gisèle.
