# So, I was having brunch with Olivia de Havilland in Paris last week . . . **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 28, 2012, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-was-having-brunch-with-olivia-de-havilland-in-paris-last-week/623353 "2012-05-28T16:33:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2012, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-was-having-brunch-with-olivia-de-havilland-in-paris-last-week/623353/21 "2012-05-28T20:38:43Z")
“Melanie”! Wow, I had no idea that anybody from \*Gone with the Wind \*was still alive. What a cool story. Thank you for sharing, **Eve**. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2012, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-was-having-brunch-with-olivia-de-havilland-in-paris-last-week/623353/22 "2012-05-28T20:56:03Z")
Cool! I’m happy for you! Sometimes I regret that I actively avoid celebrity culture. This is one of those times. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2012, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-was-having-brunch-with-olivia-de-havilland-in-paris-last-week/623353/23 "2012-05-28T21:04:59Z")
I’m going to print this thread out and give it to my mother, who will faint away with envy. She and her sister, my aunt, have two favorite movies, _The African Queen_ and _Gone With the Wind_. And Mom loved Olivia de Havilland in many other pictures as well. The first time I saw GWTW Mom taught me something. You know the scene where Pork, Gerald O’Hara’s valet, asks Scarlett who will milk the cow, as he and Mammy can’t “We’s _house_ servants, Miss Scarlett.” In the theater(it was a revival theater) a lot of people laughed at that, but Mom said it was sad, the people can be conditioned to think that way. ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2012, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-was-having-brunch-with-olivia-de-havilland-in-paris-last-week/623353/24 "2012-05-28T21:26:25Z")
Eve, I can’t even tell you how extraordinary you are!! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2012, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-was-having-brunch-with-olivia-de-havilland-in-paris-last-week/623353/25 "2012-05-28T22:02:42Z")
That is so very cool, and I’m so happy for you, **Eve**. And like **Taomist** , my first thought was, “dang it, girl, when someone says something like that to you, _offer to help_! She knows you’re a good writer already, and you might get to live in Paris for a while!” ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2012, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-was-having-brunch-with-olivia-de-havilland-in-paris-last-week/623353/26 "2012-05-29T01:51:54Z")
> [@Cub\_Mistress](#): > > Wow, I am so happy for you,\*\* Eve\*\*! > > More details please, and a link to the sexy girl pirate picture! I wonder if it was[this one](http://www.things-and-other-stuff.com/hub-pages/olivia-de-havilland-information/#ecwid:category=1039122&mode=product&product=10970233). ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2012, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-was-having-brunch-with-olivia-de-havilland-in-paris-last-week/623353/27 "2012-05-29T03:56:15Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > Once they had me pose with an alligator—you know, ‘eccentric starlet Olivia de Havilland has a pet alligator.’ They told me to pat it on the nose and warned me, ‘don’t worry about its mouth, but look out for the tail—that’s what they use to sweep you into their mouth.’” That might be the least reassuring thing I’ve ever heard. But the chat sounds like a lot of fun and I’m glad you got to have this experience, **Eve**. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2012, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-was-having-brunch-with-olivia-de-havilland-in-paris-last-week/623353/28 "2012-05-29T05:16:48Z")
That’s just so amazingly cool, **Eve**! ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2012, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-was-having-brunch-with-olivia-de-havilland-in-paris-last-week/623353/29 "2012-05-29T07:39:01Z")
Sweet zombie Jesus **Eve**. You realize this will make a great movie. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2012, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-was-having-brunch-with-olivia-de-havilland-in-paris-last-week/623353/30 "2012-05-29T09:35:43Z")
This beats the hell out of me chatting with Truman Capote, in the men’s room line at Studio 54 . . . and I didn’t even recognize him. But you really should have offered to work on her memoirs. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2012, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-was-having-brunch-with-olivia-de-havilland-in-paris-last-week/623353/31 "2012-05-29T10:24:21Z")
How awesome are you? 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2012, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-was-having-brunch-with-olivia-de-havilland-in-paris-last-week/623353/32 "2012-05-29T12:53:13Z")
Swooon. And swoooon again. You mean you didn’t have a tape recorder in the pocket of your . . . well, what were _you_ wearing? ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2012, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-was-having-brunch-with-olivia-de-havilland-in-paris-last-week/623353/33 "2012-05-29T13:26:49Z")
No “What’s it like working with Erroll Flynn?” How disappointing. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2012, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-was-having-brunch-with-olivia-de-havilland-in-paris-last-week/623353/34 "2012-05-29T13:42:03Z")
Very impressive. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2012, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-was-having-brunch-with-olivia-de-havilland-in-paris-last-week/623353/35 "2012-05-29T13:49:07Z")
> [@Askance](#): > > I wonder if it was[this one](http://www.things-and-other-stuff.com/hub-pages/olivia-de-havilland-information/#ecwid:category=1039122&mode=product&product=10970233). It was from that same sitting, yes, but even sillier–she was sitting in a chest of gold pirate treasure. No, I did not mention _Gone with the Wind_ or Errol Flynn, and my \*goodness \*not her sister! Did not ask for an autograph or take a photo, that would be _de trop_–I did tell her if she does write her memoirs, I will be happy to edit them for her, but I think she has pretty much given up on them. Just dropped a thank-you note in the mail today. Back at work today and reminding myself to be grateful I \*have \*a job. After a week in Paris–mostly in Montmartre–I got off the plane and I was in _Newark_. I got out of the cab and asked the driver, “just run over me repeatedly, OK?” ---
**Author:** ![kombatminipig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5ac83/32.png) [@kombatminipig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kombatminipig)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2012, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-was-having-brunch-with-olivia-de-havilland-in-paris-last-week/623353/36 "2012-05-29T14:09:01Z")
I feel like I’m the only one completely clueless here…but how the heck and why? =) Is your general profession just being awesome? ---
**Author:** ![gwendee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2012, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-was-having-brunch-with-olivia-de-havilland-in-paris-last-week/623353/37 "2012-05-29T14:17:30Z")
I hope this thread stays on the front page for ever. Just seeing the title makes me so happy! ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2012, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-was-having-brunch-with-olivia-de-havilland-in-paris-last-week/623353/38 "2012-05-29T14:36:14Z")
> [@kombatminipig](#): > > Is your general profession just being awesome? **Eve** has raised “being awesome” to an art. The great ones just make it look easy. ---
**Author:** ![kombatminipig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5ac83/32.png) [@kombatminipig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kombatminipig)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2012, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-was-having-brunch-with-olivia-de-havilland-in-paris-last-week/623353/39 "2012-05-29T14:43:36Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > **Eve** has raised “being awesome” to an art. The great ones just make it look easy. Oooh. Is there a best of Eve thread somewhere around? If not, there should be. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2012, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-was-having-brunch-with-olivia-de-havilland-in-paris-last-week/623353/40 "2012-05-29T14:46:30Z")
> [@kombatminipig](#): > > Is your general profession just being awesome? But let me tell you, the dental and prescription benefits are _terrible_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-was-having-brunch-with-olivia-de-havilland-in-paris-last-week/623353.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-was-having-brunch-with-olivia-de-havilland-in-paris-last-week/623353.md?page=3)