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Olivia de Havilland, sophisticated star of Hollywood's golden age, dies at 104
- jimbob45 6y agoHitler himself may have watched her in Captain Blood or Robin Hood. She lived to be astoundingly old and was supremely talented.
- lkramer 6y agoQuickest example of Godwin's law I've seen in a while.
- tzs 6y agoNope. Godwin’s law involves comparisons to Hitler or Nazis. This was a use of Hitler as a marker in time to indicate the era de Havilland was from.
- CamperBob2 6y agoGodwin's Law has also been explicitly suspended by its originator for the duration, not that it applies here.
- interestica 6y agoAnother time marker: an American slave ship survivor may have seen her in Gone with the Wind. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2020/03/last-slave-ship-survivor-descendants-identified/ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2020/03/last-slav...
- jimbob45 6y agoHaha you win. That is absolutely bonkers to think about.
- gkoberger 6y agoYou probably could have gone with FDR.
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- Andrew_nenakhov 6y agoDeathlist 2020 [1] looks to overtake a 17/50 record set in 2017. [1]: https://deathlist.net/ https://deathlist.net/
- asveikau 6y agoWow. Imagine for a moment being a famous person of a certain age and making that list. As if strangers on the internet are betting on, almost plotting your demise.
- Andrew_nenakhov 6y agoKirk Douglas was absolutely beating their expectations, finally dying this year only on his 18th appearance.
- turndown 6y agoI think the list is interesting in a cultural sense, but I agree that the way it works is disturbing to say the least. Consider the discussion post for Phillip Mountbatten[0] for the kind of enlightened discussion the site hosts... 0: https://forums.deathlist.net/topic/8107-1-prince-philip-duke-of-edinburgh/ https://forums.deathlist.net/topic/8107-1-prince-philip-duke...
- Andrew_nenakhov 6y agoI don't think it bothers Philip. Members of his family have had worse than some harmless online haters. Some were killed by bombs [1], including 14 y.o. children. [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Mountbatten,_1st_Earl_Mountbatten_of_Burma https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Mountbatten,_1st_Earl_...
- asveikau 6y agoOne strange thing about that forum is they keep the same threads year after year. So there is, for example, 11 pages of people rooting for Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death since 2009. Discussions are indeed not very kind.
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- aazaa 6y agoWikipedia maintains a list of films now in the public domain. de Havilland's films are of the right age to be on the list, but don't appear to be. Most of the films on the list got there from failure to renew the copyright, a requirement which has since disappeared. > Prior to 1988, all motion picture films published after 1909 with a copyright notice where the 28th year of copyright would occur before 1988, had to be registered and before the 28th year, the registration had to be renewed, or the copyright for the film would expire and it would enter the public domain. This would apply to all films registered for copyright prior to 1960. Copyright renewals became optional in 1988. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_in_the_public_domain_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_in_the_public_do...
- WarOnPrivacy 6y agoCopyright has abandoned any pretext of serving a public interest - it's reason for existing.
- Wildgoose 6y agoAs a Go player, my favourite anecdote about Olivia de Havilland is that her father became so addicted to the game in Japan that his wife divorced him. He married a Japanese woman and went on to write the first Go book written in English.
- dwohnitmok 6y agoWikipedia and other sources seem to paint a darker tale. > Lilian and Walter met in Japan in 1913 and married the following year; the marriage was not a happy one due in part to Walter's infidelities. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivia_de_Havilland#Early_life https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivia_de_Havilland#Early_life. And apparently in his wife's own words > spoke like God, but behaved like the Devil from https://books.google.com/books?id=nmjetV92THsC&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q=spoke%20like%20god%2C%20but%20behaved%20like%20the%20devil&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=nmjetV92THsC&pg=PP1#v=onep... It doesn't seem like Go was the reason for the divorce.
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- nomad543 6y agoHe was probably the first weaboo ever.
- DoreenMichele 6y agoI had no idea she had a legal thing named after her. Of course, it was well before I was born. But, still. The article mentions in passing Hattie McDaniel, one of her co-stars in Gone With the Wind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hattie_McDaniel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hattie_McDaniel
- 082349872349872 6y agoIt also mentions Every Frenchman Has One, which was a "best-seller". What are recent US best-sellers explicating other cultures? Educated? The City of Falling Angels? (I'm not sure either of those portray the other in a sympathetic light. Considering that de Havilland immigrated to france, I'd bet hers did.) Leap of Faith?
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- jackcosgrove 6y agoThe Adventures of Robin Hood is incredibly entertaining to this day. Claude Rains is an excellent villain, and the action is fast-paced. RIP Golden Age of Hollywood, RIP Ms. de Havilland.
- kanobo 6y agoIt'll be a nice tradition if everybody who turns 100 publish a short letter for the next generation documenting lessons they've learned and advice they would give. RIP Havilland.
- 082349872349872 6y agoI haven't read it yet, but The View from 80 may be interesting. https://www.csmonitor.com/1980/0917/091702.html https://www.csmonitor.com/1980/0917/091702.html
- emmelaich 6y agoA woman of principle, successfully navigating her way between the communists and the anti-communists in Hollywood https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-olivia-de-havilland-bucked-dalton-trumbo-and-helped-save-hollywood-from-itself https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-olivia-de-havilland-bucked...
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