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Title: Legends of Hollywood: The Life of Olivia de Havilland
Author: Charles River Editors
Narrator: Scott Clem
Format: Unabridged
Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-23-17
Publisher: Charles River Editors
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Celebrities
Publisher's Summary:
Olivia de Havilland is one of the last few living actresses who worked during the Golden Era of Hollywood, but also one of the most decorated, winning dozens of awards over the course of a 50 year career. Among those, she most notably won the Academy Award for Best Actress for To Each His Own (1946) and The Heiress (1949), more than a decade after she got her start as an 18 year old in Hollywood. Ironically, de Havilland was in California in part because the young British girl who had been born in Tokyo stopped in the States for medical treatment.
Of course, de Havilland isn't well remembered for any of those accolades or other movies but because she played Melanie Hamilton in Gone with the Wind (1939), perhaps the most famous movie in American history. Although she was a veteran actress at the time, de Havilland's career hadn't progressed much since she started, and rumor has it that she eventually got the role after her own sister, Joan Fontaine, was asked to audition for the part and recommended Olivia instead. Olivia was ultimately nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and became a household name in her adopted country overnight.
Having been typecast in light romantic comedies before Gone with the Wind, that performance ensured de Havilland subsequently had a long, productive and versatile career making everything from westerns and dramas. Of those movies, she is perhaps most closely associated with the enigmatic Errol Flynn, another foreign-born actor who was more notorious for his roles off the screen than on it. Before his untimely death, they appeared in several films together and became one of Hollywood's most popular on-screen couples.
Members Reviews:
Not What I Expected
I, too, was very disappointed in the "book". It is reaIIy not a book but more Like a term paper on her Life. It is weII written and direct in what it teIIs, but in 20 pages, one can only get a taste of the actress we Loved. I think the company should be more specific that this is just a short version of her Life...touching on the highlights.
Disappointing.
Interesting, writing style is fine, but very short. I finished this book in about 35 minutes. I would call it more of a long magazine article. A lot of quotes but no real insight into Olivia's life. Disappointing.
What was I Thinking???
Love Olivia deHaviland. Just very disappointed in myself for not noting the length of the "book". The National Inquirer has more substance to it. Let's all just wait until (sadly) Olivia dies, and her autobiography comes out.
The Life of Olivia de Havilland
I applaud Charles River Editors the author of this book for writing about a much loved movie star such as Olivia de Havilland with none of the salacious gossipy trash which most other authors use to sell their books about famous people. The only complaint I have: I wish the book had been longer.
One Star
very very short book.
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Title: Legends of Hollywood: The Life of Olivia de Havilland
Author: Charles River Editors
Narrator: Scott Clem
Format: Unabridged
Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-23-17
Publisher: Charles River Editors
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Celebrities
Publisher's Summary:
Olivia de Havilland is one of the last few living actresses who worked during the Golden Era of Hollywood, but also one of the most decorated, winning dozens of awards over the course of a 50 year career. Among those, she most notably won the Academy Award for Best Actress for To Each His Own (1946) and The Heiress (1949), more than a decade after she got her start as an 18 year old in Hollywood. Ironically, de Havilland was in California in part because the young British girl who had been born in Tokyo stopped in the States for medical treatment.
Of course, de Havilland isn't well remembered for any of those accolades or other movies but because she played Melanie Hamilton in Gone with the Wind (1939), perhaps the most famous movie in American history. Although she was a veteran actress at the time, de Havilland's career hadn't progressed much since she started, and rumor has it that she eventually got the role after her own sister, Joan Fontaine, was asked to audition for the part and recommended Olivia instead. Olivia was ultimately nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and became a household name in her adopted country overnight.
Having been typecast in light romantic comedies before Gone with the Wind, that performance ensured de Havilland subsequently had a long, productive and versatile career making everything from westerns and dramas. Of those movies, she is perhaps most closely associated with the enigmatic Errol Flynn, another foreign-born actor who was more notorious for his roles off the screen than on it. Before his untimely death, they appeared in several films together and became one of Hollywood's most popular on-screen couples.
Members Reviews:
Not What I Expected
I, too, was very disappointed in the "book". It is reaIIy not a book but more Like a term paper on her Life. It is weII written and direct in what it teIIs, but in 20 pages, one can only get a taste of the actress we Loved. I think the company should be more specific that this is just a short version of her Life...touching on the highlights.
Disappointing.
Interesting, writing style is fine, but very short. I finished this book in about 35 minutes. I would call it more of a long magazine article. A lot of quotes but no real insight into Olivia's life. Disappointing.
What was I Thinking???
Love Olivia deHaviland. Just very disappointed in myself for not noting the length of the "book". The National Inquirer has more substance to it. Let's all just wait until (sadly) Olivia dies, and her autobiography comes out.
The Life of Olivia de Havilland
I applaud Charles River Editors the author of this book for writing about a much loved movie star such as Olivia de Havilland with none of the salacious gossipy trash which most other authors use to sell their books about famous people. The only complaint I have: I wish the book had been longer.
One Star
very very short book.