Happy 104th birthday, Dame Olivia de Havilland!

I have two Oscars, bitch.

Tokyo, her place of birth, in 1916.

She always looks so unkempt, does she even have a stylist? She needs fillers and a bit of botox.

Why, r3? Do you think she might find love again if she spruces up a bit at 104?

If she takes another cruise, she will surely find love again.

She really is a wretched woman, in the early 80's she had an affair with Billy Barty. Olivia forced Barty's wife out of the family home, Barty's wife Shirley Bolingbroke had a nervous breakdown and never recovered.

I can't imagine she has any quality of life left. What's the point?

You lack imagination, R7. Here she is last year, bicycling through Paris.

Link, r6?

R7, Dame Olivia has I suspect stayed alive through a combination of joie de vivre (see cycling photo) and sheer bloody-mindedness, and I for one am here for it. I suspect she enjoys just still being around. She outlived the sister who was always her rival. And when she turned 100, The Queen could no longer really NOT make her a Dame.

She’s lasted longer than lots of younger celebrities, and I now suspect she’s trying to outlive Her Majesty herself. I commend her in this effort and hope she has a lovely, still-goddamn-alive, birthday.

So young!

Only 104?! Big deal.

J'adore this GIF of Dame de Havilland plowing the fields, in glorious three-strip technicolor! It's sad that she became most famous for playing the roles of dowdy women, because she was fucking gorgeous in her heyday.

So, she's a hair flinger r13?

Eat My Ass Scarlett!

R14

Errol's sperm must have been the Fountain of Youth .

[quote]Before you know it, you'll be in heaven back with Joan again

You should write greeting cards.

At this age, I wish her as many happy returns of the day as she wants... but if she's well, well done, O de H.

Hey, I used to skate at Billy Barty's Roller Fantasy in Fullerton, CA! BB's voice was on the answering machine giving admission prices and skate times. I never knew he had such a glamourous wife such as Miss OdeH!

I wonder who she'll pointlessly sue in order to celebrate.

She's spending the holiday rappelling down the face of an Alpine mountain!

Happy birthday to the protagonist of Gone with the Wind!

R18 Mmmmm.....Erroll's sperm.......

I believe Olivia de Havilland is the last star of the Classic Hollywood era who is still living. Offhand, I can't think of anybody else from that era who's still alive.

Until recently, Kirk Douglas also was on that list. But I agree that OdeH is probably the last one.

R18 It wasn't for him though...

It's amazing that Melanie from GWTW is still with us. At this point, she's outlived the other principal cast members (Leigh, Gable, McDaniel, and Howard) by 53, 60, 68, and 77 years, respectively. She's even outlived the little girl who played Bonnie by a decade already (Cammie King died in 2010).

R26, other name-above-the-title stars from that era (before1950) are still with us, though DBE Olivia is the oldest and brightest: Jane Powell, Margaret O'Brien, Ann Blyth, Rhonda Fleming, Jane Withers, Arlene Dahl, Marsha Hunt, Janis Paige, Angela Lansbury, though the last three were usually below the title in supporting roles.

What a filthy old slut!

Olivia's predecessor as DL's "so young" commenter, Luise Rainer, died days before turning 105. Will Olivia beat her record?

Impressive age. I wish her the best! HB DL Legend OdeH.

Many Happy returns Damr Olivia! I adore this woman but I agree a certain psychological defiance and up yours attitude is part of the determined resolve helping her to live so long and outlast many.

She has good genes. I have a grandmother who will be 104 on July 18.

r26 Not the last star but the biggest star or biggest name still around from that era.

Imagine outliving 99% (probably more) of the world's population who were born the same year as you. Hell, imagine outliving most of the people who were born the year you turned eighteen.

Mickey Kuhn, then child actor in GWTW, is still living. Of course it was a minor and brief role. A few others living were babies.

r8, there was an OdH thread some months ago were we discussed the tricycle photo to death and the consensus was that it was taken in LA is at least 20 to 25 years ago.

Sorry about that, R39, here's Olivia riding her bicycle today. Isn't she amazing?

OP Joan is NOT in Heaven!

r30 none of those people were big stars in the category of Olivia. Olivia was A-List, in the category of Davis, Hepburn, Crawford etc.

I'm aware of that, R42. I stated that Olivia was the brightest star among that group. However, Margaret O'Brien was a bigger box-office star for a few years, and Jane Powell was no slouch either. R26 didn't specify stars from the classic Hollywood era who are still alive and of the same magnitude as de Havilland, Davis, Hepburn and Crawford.

So appropriately aged.

Only the good die young!

Why, she’s five times my age!

After she passes, who will replace Dame Olivia in the "so young" department?

r47 Joan Collins?Angie Dickinson? Betty White? Eva Marie Saint?

Those ladies are spring chickens, R48.

Here are a couple of candidates:

Retired actress Renee Simonet, mother of Catherine Deneuve, will be 109 in September.

Gay-friendly, blacklisted Marsha Hunt will be 103 in October, and she and Olivia share some Hollywood history: David Selznick cast Marsha as Melanie in GWTW when Warner Brothers refused to loan Olivia out, but then Warners backed down and Marsha lost out. Both Marsha and Olivia made their film debuts in 1935.

This fabulous woman R47, who is now 111-years-young.

It was 104 that did in Luise Rainer. So, watch out, Olivia.

John McCain's mother Roberta McCain is 108 years old! She has outlived all three of her children.

Well she’s just showing off.

Roberta McCain was born two months before the Titanic sank. She is old enough to have memories of the end of World War I.

[quote]Roberta McCain was born two months before the Titanic sank.

Too bad she wasn't on it. Saved us her yellow-teethed, shitstain of a son from being born.

[quote]Here she is last year, bicycling through Paris.

Look closer R8. More like sitting crossed-legged on a non-moving three wheeler.

She’s lived long enough to see Gone With the Wind come under fire from cancel culture.

R56. see r39 and r40.

Caught a few minutes of her classic performance on TV tonight

Soon I will be the only Dame Olivia.

Oh, Olivia.... how could you?

Sarah/R55, we needn't have endured you or your spawn if your mother had optimally exercised her abortion rights..

I made it to 104, bitches!

Wasn't she cancelled recently for appearing in Gone With the Wind?

Prince Philip, R47

YOU look closer, R56. Look at her feet.

Livy is not sitting cross-legged on a non-moving three wheeler.

She is sitting knock-kneed on a non-moving three wheeler.

How do you know it’s not moving?

[quote]After she passes, who will replace Dame Olivia in the "so young" department?

Norman Lloyd is 105 and, if he's still around, will be 106 in November.

r49 Marsha Hunt it is then!

Not so fast there, R69. I'm still here.

Hmmm... I just can't imagine an uptight twat like Olivia de Havilland dancing in her scanties.

I'm voting for Prince Philip. It's age + name rec.

No hard feelings, Marsha and Norm.

Joan tweeting from hell @ R71.

R50 I remember Virginia McLaurin in the White House. It was so sweet and joyous. It's so wonderful that she lived long enough to see a black president, and then to meet him in person.

Is that Cheetah from the Tarzan films R50?

Marsha in good form with Greer Garson...

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It should be obvious to anyone with a functioning brain that photo was taken years ago.

[quote] Olivia's predecessor as DL's "so young" commenter, Luise Rainer, died days before turning 105. Will Olivia beat her record?

Of course.

Apparently that's not a prerequisite for employment with The Daily Mail, R78.

Every time I see that photo I think she’s been put on it against her will, it’s rolling downhill with no brakes, and she’s actually screaming. It’s like she’s a live toy for a latter Maître Blum.