# Happy Birthday, Olivia de Havilland

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-birthday-olivia-de-havilland/758839>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 1, 2016, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-birthday-olivia-de-havilland/758839 "2016-07-01T01:31:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![from\_a\_to\_z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5fc32e/32.png) [@from\_a\_to\_z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/from_a_to_z)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2016, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-birthday-olivia-de-havilland/758839/21 "2016-07-03T01:18:14Z")

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> [@Siam\_Sam](#):
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> Alas! The _Daily Mail_ remains blocked in Thailand. If the article is ever rerun in a different paper, please let me know.

It’s an Associated Press article, also [here](http://bigstory.ap.org/article/db5918b0dc21407f85119bb0835ada4e/ap-interview-de-havilland-breaks-silence-sibling-feud), titled “AP Interview: De Havilland breaks silence on sibling feud”, By Thomas Adamson, July 1, 2016.

Olivia is lots of fun in her early years, having started in Hollywood as a teenager. As a 21 year old in [It’s Love I’m After](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_Love_I%27m_After), she is infatuated with a ham actor who is a boorish guest in her family’s home. But, according to her, “What are ‘manners’? Little rules for _little_ people. He’s too _big_ for manners. Genius is _above_ trifles!” A code of honor to live by, no matter how many fêtes that one is invited to.

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**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2016, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-birthday-olivia-de-havilland/758839/22 "2016-07-04T22:14:36Z")

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> [@from\_a\_to\_z](#):
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> It’s an Associated Press article, also [here](http://bigstory.ap.org/article/db5918b0dc21407f85119bb0835ada4e/ap-interview-de-havilland-breaks-silence-sibling-feud), titled “AP Interview: De Havilland breaks silence on sibling feud”, By Thomas Adamson, July 1, 2016.

Thank you for that.

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**Author:** ![KellyCriterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b3f665/32.png) [@KellyCriterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KellyCriterion)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2016, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-birthday-olivia-de-havilland/758839/23 "2016-07-07T07:03:46Z")

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Pretty crazy that you go and watch her in color, **as a 22 year old woman** , in 1938’s The Adventures of Robin Hood.

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