The two-time Oscar winner was best known for her role in Gone with the Wind Olivia ... Warner Bros., which produced a movie version of the Shakespeare comedy. Reprising her role as Hermia, de ...

Olivia de Havilland began her career at the height of the classical Hollywood studio system, signing a long-term contract with Warner Bros. in 1935. (Under the prevailing practice of this era ...

Olivia de Havilland began her career at the height of the classical Hollywood studio system, signing a long-term contract with Warner Bros. in 1935. (Under the prevailing practice of this era, actors ...

Over her eventful 104 years, more than half of them as a Hollywood leading lady, Olivia de Havilland ... who lost her battle with Warner Brothers while de Havilland won the war.

Olivia de Havilland — who died July 26 in Paris — was 20 when on May 5, 1936, she signed a seven-year contract with Warner Bros. (She was loaned to MGM for the filming of GWTW two years later.) ...

Actress Olivia de Havilland died in Paris ... added to the overall length of their contracts. When de Havilland prepared to leave Warner Brothers at the end of her seven-year contract, the ...

Gone With the Wind star Olivia de Havilland ... though she was under contract with Warner Bros., to see if she would work for the role.) In 1940, de Havilland was nominated for a Best Supporting ...

Warner Bros. had other plans, and continued to cast her in the same kind of fluffy roles they had in the past. Eventually, de Havilland began to turn down projects, an assertive stance that was ...

In her interview with Ryan, de Havilland described Warner Bros. as a prison—with Jack Warner as the head warden. “And all of us, all of the actors, were the inmates,” said de Havilland.

Olivia de Havilland ... came in court against Warner Bros, setting a template for labor rights in Hollywood." She took pride in the ruling, still known as the De Havilland Law.

But the Grande Dame on set was Olivia de Havilland ... for stars to have a say in their careers.” De Havilland, under contract with Warner Bros., grew dissatisfied with the quality of the ...