But de Havilland remembered the movie as one of the happiest experiences Ive ever had in my life. The decision is still unofficially called the De Havilland law.De Havilland went on to earn her own Academy Award in 1946 for her performance in To Each His Own, a melodrama about out-of-wedlock birth. She was also famous, not always for the better, as the sister of Fontaine, with whom she had a troubled relationship. II wanted to be a stage actress, she recalled. De Havilland allegedly never got along with Fontaine, a feud magnified by the 1941 Oscar race that placed her against her sister for best actress honors.

Olivia de Havilland, Oscar-winning actress has died, aged 104 in Paris, publicist says Sunday July 26, 2020. Fans and actors alike owe much to de Havilland, the Oscar-winning performer who became, almost literally, a law unto herself. De Havilland, who died Sunday at 104, was one of the last survivors of Hollywoods so-called Golden Age. De Havilland died peacefully of natural causes at her home in Paris, publicist Lisa Goldberg said. Flynn was a compulsive womanizer even by Hollywood standards, but de Havilland insisted that her bond with the dashing actor remained, somehow, platonic.