Tomorrow, July 1, you will be one hundred years old. You were a great actress in some of my favorite movies. Have a great day, maybe break out some bubbly.
Wish Eve were still here; she knew her.
By odd coincidence, some spammer bumped an Eve thread and I did a click on find her posts and the last thread she posted in?
So, I was having brunch with Olivia de Havilland in Paris last week . . .
It’s July 1 here now. Happy Birthday, kid!
Damn good genetics. Her sister only died 3 years ago, at 94.
Wou!da crushed harder except, at age 13 and with no self-respect, bitch STILL seemed uncomfortably needy and PA. One must have standards.
She’ll always be Maid Marian to me. She was sooooooo gorgeous! :o
WTF? 
Wow, 100 years old. Is there anybody else connected with GWTW still alive? Even if you were an 18 year old extra back then, you’d be 95 this year.
I believe Mickey “Beau Wilkes” Kuhn is the only other one.
Some years ago she said her greatest regret was her behavior when Hattie McDaniel won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for GWTW. She didn’t congratulate her or even speak to her. It wasn’t racism but the fact she was, by her own admission, a very self-centered 23 year old to whom everything to that point had come easy and who thought she was a shoe-in for the award and was crushed when she didn’t get it.
She was BFFs with Errol Flynn as I recall, though I don’t think they were involved romantically.
People has a nice article with a current picture. She still looks beautiful and says that she will be celebrating with dinner and drinks with friends.
The Daily Mail has a respectful article.
Good article, Quartz. Glad to see the old gal is still beautiful and still has all her marbles. Thanks for sharing.
It’s good of her to speak out like that.
After I saw GWTW for the first time I liked her performance, but I thought Hattie McDaniel had it when she gave that smirk to Scarlett early in the film, when she’d said “I ain’t seen Mr. Ashley asking for to marry you” Scarlett glared at her and that smile just nailed it.
She was also a pioneer to get more control over her career and get more adult roles like “The Snakepit”, which is about mental illness.
Patrick Curtis, who played the infant Beau Wilkes and was once married to Raquel Welch is still alive at 78. Don’t think he is credited in the film though
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Melanie was a doormat. I had grown up around doormats. I preferred spunk. Scarlett had spunk.
Note: Even back then, The Crazy beckoned.
Melanie had class. She went out and thanked the town madam Belle for saving the life of her husband and others who raided the shantytown where Scarlett was attacked. A high society lady didn’t have to do that but she didn’t forget a kindness.
Alas! The Daily Mail remains blocked in Thailand. If the article is ever rerun in a different paper, please let me know.
Thanks for sharing that information, as I had never heard that. I admire people that can admit regrets, as I’ve known several people who are very stubborn and will never admit any wrongdoing.