Olivia de Havilland

Flynn's Robin Hood is not just a swashbuckling hero, he is a man of joy and charisma, embodying the spirit of adventure with every daring leap and sword fight.

His chemistry with Olivia de Havilland, who plays the lovely Maid Marian, is palpable.

De Havilland's Marion is not just a damsel in distress but a strong and intelligent woman who sees the goodness in Robin and aids him in his quest for justice.

The supporting cast is equally impressive, with Alan Hale as the loyal Little John, Eugene Pellett as the jovial Friar Tuck and Patrick Knowles as the dashing Will Scarlet.

it is such a fascinating film because I think it's the one film on the list I hadn't seen before and I think I was really expecting again something more along the domestic terror lines because obviously this is one of the films that you could class as a psycho bitty film so we talked a little bit like in the last podcast about Norma Desmond Gloria Swanson's role in Sunset Boulevard and the idea that you have these women from the 20s 30s and 40s who in the 60s are now aging out of what Hollywood is considering acceptable to be on film.

But a lot of these like grand dams of cinema like Olivia de Havilland, Joan Crawford, Betty Davis, they are now finding new expression and they're having to sort of like stay on screen by playing these psychobitties.

So you've got films like Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte, which Olivia de Havilland is also in, in which it is sort of like an offspring of sort of like gothic excess but it is essentially about all these sort of like hagsploitation these women that are mad they're so like perfumed by cloying excess and that's kind of more what I was expecting but Lady in a Cage is such like a fascinating time in Hollywood because it's 1964 and obviously Olivia de Havilland is in Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte but the roles that she's like most famous for in Hollywood in her career are sort of like her roles with like errol flynn in sort of like these swashbucking romance movies she's also very famous i think for being in gone with the wind where she's playing like again a very kind of like cloying version of white goodness in like the antebellum south and this film really does engage with that like from the outset like from the minute the credits roll on this picture, it is a film about like convergence.

They're describing like this idea of like this urban jungle coming for this white woman.

I mean,

old generation and the new generation, yeah.

It feels like a cracking from old Hollywood to new Hollywood.

It's specifically just having Olivia de Havilland and James Caan next to each other.

This is William Keeley saying goodnight to you from Hollywood.

Mark Stevens appeared through the courtesy of 20th Century Fox and is currently co-starring with Olivia de Havilland in The Snake Pit.

Heard in tonight's cast were John McIntyre as Cy and Ed Begley as Chief.

Our play was adapted by S.H. Barnett and our music was directed by Louis Silvers.

This is director Victor Fleming.

Stars Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Olivia de Havilland, and Hattie McDaniel.

So, [laughs] so Terri, what are your thoughts about Gone With the Wind?

I love Gone With the Wind.

Mm-hmm.

Not only was Catherine Oxenberg related to royalty, she'd also just played Diana in a trashy US tele movie called The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana, with, uh, Olivia de Havilland as the Queen mum.

I mean- Wow ... quite why to see that.

[laughs] At the time, he remembers reading The UK was not interested in screening the film, so we probably didn't see it.

Starring in this Theatre Guild production are Joan Bennett, Sam Levene, and Thelma Ritter.

And on Sunday, you're invited to another hour-and-a-half broadcast of the Big Show, starring Eddie Arnold, Jack Carson, Eddie Cantor, Olivia de Havilland, Martha Raye, Meredith Willson, and many more.

Your emcee, of course, is the glamorous and unpredictable Tallulah.

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The general principle behind the statute is that a person cannot be held to a personal service contract in California for more than seven years.

The law is historically associated with the entertainment industry, including the famous nineteen forty-four dispute involving actress Olivia de Havilland and Warner Brothers.

But here is where people can get confused.

The seven-year rule does not necessarily mean that every entertainment contract automatically disappears after seven years with no remaining obligations and no financial consequences.