Sunday, July 26, 2020

LAST OF THE GOLDEN AGE

It's a dark day indeed.

I'm deeply sadden and depressed to hear the Golden Age had come to it's end with the death of Dame  Olivia de Havilland, who you may remember just turned 104 a few weeks ago.

"I would prefer to live forever in perfect health, but if I must at some time leave this life, I would like to do so ensconced on a chaise longue, perfumed, wearing a velvet robe and pearl earrings, with a flute of champagne beside me and having just discovered the answer to the last problem in a British cryptic crossword."
I only hope she got her wish.

Dame Olivia de Havilland
July 1 1916- July 26, 2020

36 comments:

  1. I just saw this news and it made me so sad! RIP to a legend. I hope she got her wish, too.

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  2. Very sad news. Apparently, she loved a glass of champagne, so We shall be raising a toast to her, no doubt. However, there is a gin cocktail that was made in her honour - so we might pull out all the stops (mind you, the prospect of getting "Wolf Moon Hibiscus" from our Tesco Metro - or indeed anywhere - might be asking a bit much)... Jx

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  3. ♫ ♪ There is nothing like a dame ♪ ♫
    RIP

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  4. WHAT!!!!!!!! I'm am incredibly sad to hear this. You just posted about her it seem. She shall do a toast to her tonight here on the beach. Im an tearing up.

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  5. Thank you for this beautiful post and tribute. I'm wondering why I didn't hear this on the news. Olivia was a charming lady and great actress from Hollywood's Golden Age. She will be sorely missed.

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    1. I saw the news literally 10 minutes after the new broke and it hit me feed. Tis sad to see a great Hollywood era end with her.

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    2. Take solace, dear - Marge Champion (100), Betty White (98), Pierre Cardin (98), Iris Apfel (98), Eva Marie Saint (96), Leslie Phillips (96), Rhonda Fleming (96), Glynis Johns (96), June Lockhart (95), Angela Lansbury (94), David Attenborough (94), Arlene Dahl (94), Dick Van Dyke (94), Cloris Leachman (94), Mel Brooks (94), Harry Belafonte (93), Gina Lollobrigida (93), Sidney Poitier (93), Tony Bennett (93), Burt Bacharach (92), Joss Ackland (92) and Ann Blyth (91) are all still alive... Jx

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  6. Elegant and beautiful right to the end! Rest in Peace

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  7. Yes, she was truly MAH-vellous - and, contrary to some views [but not her own], perfectly cast in GWTW. Thank you for enriching our lives, dear lady.

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  8. I was incredibly sad and started to get teary eyed when I heard this. I think because she just turned 104 and wanted to have a long life and she did. Many don't get the privilege to live that long, let alone 90 late 80's or 90's. Her health must have been excellent. Beautiful pictures.

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    1. Me too. A celebrity death hasn't upset me so since Amy Winehouse.

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  9. To live that long. Many of us would only be lucky to see that.
    Rest in peace you lovely lady.

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  10. Having that life, living to be 104, and living in Paris still riding a bike! Not a bad way to go! She lived.

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  11. Beautiful, smart and wildly talented a powerful mix for a women of her generation. Wonderful speaking voice I could listen to it all day long. Thank you Miss de Havilland for incredible movie memories. One hundred and four and to die of natural causes I can only say we should all be so fortunate.

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  12. Anonymous7/26/2020

    A magnificent star and actress in an age we will never see again. Many cite "Gone With The Wind" as the role for which she will be remembered.Although she gave a great performance, I will always remember her performance in "The Heiress" which will live forever.

    On a side note, I hope she and her sister, Joan Fontaine, will patch up their feud.

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    1. That was the only pit fall for each of them. Shame they never came around. I think they patched what they could and that was that.

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  13. Never having been a fan, the death of John Saxon resonates more with me. RIP

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    1. I saw that too. Its been a rather sad weekend all the way around. Another drag sister also passed away Saturday.

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  14. We raise a glass to her tonight for sure! Heartbreaking to know that we are in fact seeing the end and last nail into the last of old Hollywood, when they had real talent, class and manners. That is real sad. Today's Hollywood doesn't even come near touching the Golden Age.

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  15. I feel that Olivia De Havilland and Errol Flynn had perhaps the greatest on-screen chemistry of any couple in film. I loved their movies and still watch them. I am so sad to read this today.

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  16. I wrote to her when I was fifteen and she sent me a Polaroid of herself in 1977 signed

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    1. Thats a treasure unto self. You should have it framed.

      xoxo

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  17. Such sad news. The stars of that era will live forever.

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  18. Heaven must be having a convention this month, with exceptional new angels.

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  19. She used to be best friends With Errol Flynn. I always found that interesting. And she never talked.

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  20. and old hollywood is now past. love all the pictures. and if she did get her wish, what a way to go. "bless your heart, miss melly."

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  21. 104 ! Good for her! What a dame - and I mean that literally.

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  22. It is rather sad.It's like watching the very last of an endangered species of it's kind pass on and there will never be another. I love you photo montage Mistress.

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  23. I thought of you immediately when I read about her death. I now want to indulge myself in a session of old Hollywood films.
    Sx

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    1. Oh I plan on it later in the week myself....you bring the tea cakes, I'll get the tea and cozy ready.....

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  24. Elegant to the last. R. I. P.

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  25. I read about it and thought about the post you wrote just a few days ago..
    So sad...

    XOXO

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    1. I just burst into tears. It was like I knew her for some reason.

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  26. She had class. More than her sister, that's for sure.

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