Goodbye Olivia de Havilland, the last Hollywood diva

(by Alessandra Baldini) (ANSA) - NEW YORK, JULY 26 - Farewell to the last of the grand stars of the golden age of Hollywood and last survivor of the main delcast of "Gone with the Wind": Olivia de Havilland is dead in her sleep Parisian house.
    The unforgettable Melania Wilkes of the saga conceived by Margaret Mitchell and adapted from Hollywood in one of her first films in Technicolor had just turned 104 years old and a photo (uncertain when it was taken) that portrayed her on a three-wheeled bicycle was for the occasion become very popular on Twitter.
    Dame Olivia had lived in Paris since 1955 in an apartment near the Bois de Boulogne. The actress, whose debut dates back to 1935 in "A Midsummer Night's Dream", should not have gladly accepted the announcement of a few days ago that Hbo had suspended from the streaming program of "Via colVento" in the wake of the protests of the Black Lives Matter. Ilfilm, for which De Havilland, a rival in love of the protagonist Rossella O'Hara, won 'a nomination but not the Oscar asking instead to Hattie McDaniel (the black "Mamie"), has been brought back into circulation with a new introduction that frame lasaga set at the time of the Civil War in the historical context of the plague of slavery.
    Olivia De Havilland had become famous in the 1930s alongside Errol Flynn in a series of "hood and sword" films such as "Captain Blood" and "The Adventures of Robin Hood": roles of "damsel in danger" in which she inevitably ended up as a prisoner and then be saved by the hero on duty. Sel'Oscar for "Gone with the Wind" had eluded her, the diva conquered two Academy Awards in any case: the first in 1946 for "To Everyone Your Destiny" in the part of a mother who tries to win back her adopted child; the second for "L" Heiress ": a woman controlled by her wealthy father and betrayed by an avid lover but who finally manages to say the last word. (ANSA).