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Title: Olivia De Havilland Remembers Being the First Female Cannes Jury President
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URL Source: http://variety.com/2018/film/news/o ... ale-jury-president-1202794178/
Published: May 2, 2018
Author: Henry Chu
Post Date: 2018-05-02 19:57:31 by BTP Holdings
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Views: 371
Comments: 3

Olivia De Havilland Remembers Being the First Female Cannes Jury President

By Henry Chu

Henry Chu, International Editor

May 2, 2018 6:30 AM PT

Olivia De Havilland Remembers Being the First Female Cannes Jury President

CREDIT: Laura Stevens for Variety

Olivia de Havilland is used to being a pioneer. Long before becoming the first woman to preside over the Cannes Film Festival jury, she took on the Hollywood studios’ onerous contract system as a young actress, fighting what was practically a form of indentured servitude. Her successful 1943 lawsuit against Warner Bros. went all the way to the California Supreme Court and resulted in the famous De Havilland Law, which remains a legal landmark.

A few years later, her portrayal in “The Snake Pit” of a woman who suffers a mental breakdown shone a light on conditions in psychiatric institutions, helped spark reforms around the country and earned de Havilland one of her five Oscar nominations. Her first was for the role for which she’ll be forever remembered: as Melanie Wilkes in “Gone With the Wind.” De Havilland wound up winning two statuettes for best actress, once in 1947, for “To Each His Own,” and again in 1950, for “The Heiress.”

Her boundary-breaking stint as head of the jury in Cannes, in 1965, was a daunting but enjoyable experience. Fellow panelists included actor Rex Harrison and French filmmaker Alain Robbe-Grillet; the Palme d’Or went to Richard Lester’s comedy “The Knack … and How to Get It.”

“I was intimidated by my role as the first female president of the Cannes Film Festival jury,” de Havilland, who is 101, tells Variety. “However, I must say that, as the only female on the jury that year, I did enjoy presiding over a committee entirely composed of men.”

That won’t hold true for incoming jury president Cate Blanchett, who will be one of five women on this year’s nine-person panel. But the fact that Blanchett is just the 10th woman to follow in de Havilland’s footsteps, after more than half a century, isn’t a happy one. “I am more than surprised,” de Havilland says. “I am dismayed.”

“I did enjoy presiding over a committee entirely composed of Men.”

Olivia de Havilland

Still, she describes herself as “encouraged” that women in show business have banded together to fight abuse and harassment and that the industry is waking up to issues of workplace inequality, such as the gender pay gap. “It’s about time!” de Havilland declares.

And she continues to stand up for herself, filing a lawsuit against FX Networks for what she alleges is a false and damaging portrayal of her in the TV series “Feud: Bette and Joan.” In the show, de Havilland (played by Catherine Zeta-Jones) calls her sister — actress Joan Fontaine, with whom she did carry on a bitter rivalry — a “bitch,” which de Havilland says never happened and insists she would never do. An appeals court tossed out the lawsuit in March.

That was a disappointment for de Havilland, who lives in Paris. But this long-lived icon of Hollywood’s Golden Age can find comfort in knowing that she’s not done setting precedents. Last June, she became the oldest woman ever to receive the British title of “dame,” an honor bestowed on her by Queen Elizabeth II. It was “the most gratifying of birthday presents,” de Havilland said then, shortly before turning 101.

“It’s about time!” said everyone else.


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Another older woman who is sharp as a tack. I remember her in Robin Hood. She was Maid Marian. ;) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivia_de_Havilland

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#1. To: BTP Holdings (#0)

Thanks for this interesting, unusual news. I completely missed it yesterday and only caught it today by clicking latest articles. Anybody else?

I love her for GWTW. If I were a real pain in the @ss (maybe I am) I'd point out that she and all other Hollywood stars from the golden age have known about the abuse and exploitation since the beginning but have said nothing till recently, giving the perps a pass and ameriKa the fatally wrong impression Hollywood was a passably normal, moral, all-American industry.

Her feud with Fontaine was very ugly. A lawsuit over the word bitch does seem an extreme stretch.

Thanks for this B. As a movie addict and critic I just EAT IT UP! Did anybody see the Feud series? Errmm, Sarandon as Davis, not too sure about that :-s

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feud_(TV _series)

www.youtube.com/watch? v=nZpANeIWWXI

Both Bette and Joan probably killed husbands, BTW.

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USA! USA! USA! Bringing you democracy, or else! there were strains of VD that were incurable, and they were first found in the Philippines and then transmitted to the Korean working girls via US military. The 'incurables' we were told were first taken back to a military hospital in the Philippines to quietly die. – 4um

NeoconsNailed  posted on  2018-05-03   20:09:20 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: NeoconsNailed (#1)

Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland starred in the 1938 film, "The Adventures of Robin Hood".

I heard that one time Errol Flynn was in his car with a friend. He said to him, "Let's go see the most beautiful women in the world."

They pulled up in front of Beverly Hills High School. LOL

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke

BTP Holdings  posted on  2018-05-03   20:15:21 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: BTP Holdings (#2)

He was a real degenerate.... some compatriots and I frequently discuss the penetration of Masonry and jew power (but I repeat myself) into everything. They once got the old Robin Hood TV series for their 4 wonderful homeschooled kids -- and were stunned to find the hero giving a pitch to some people to join the Masons in the middle of an episode :-0

This same family went to a gospel concert and were stunned to find the mother of the group, Lily Isaacs, spend the halftime break yammering about TheHolocaust© and how her poor jew family suffered in it. You can't win! They loved the collections I gave them of the Gray Ghost tho (oxymoronically starring yankee mongrel Tod Andrews as Col. Mosby) and my DVD of Tammy and the Bachelor, one of the greatest flicks ever made if truth were told. The mother was named after the character ;-)

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USA! USA! USA! Bringing you democracy, or else! there were strains of VD that were incurable, and they were first found in the Philippines and then transmitted to the Korean working girls via US military. The 'incurables' we were told were first taken back to a military hospital in the Philippines to quietly die. – 4um

NeoconsNailed  posted on  2018-05-03   21:46:38 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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