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Olivia De Havilland, One Of Hollywood's Longest Living Legends, Dies At 104

The actress is best remembered for her role in Gone With the Wind, but the two-time Oscar winner also won a landmark decision that gave artists creative independence from studios.
De Havilland rides a bicycle circa 1938.

Olivia de Havilland, who starred in dozens of movies through the 1930s and '40s, has died at age 104. She died at her home in Paris of natural causes, her publicist, Lisa Goldberg, confirmed.

De Havilland was known for playing the good girl — pure hearted, pensive, deeply emotive — during Hollywood's golden era. But of all her good-girl roles, she's best remembered for Melanie, Scarlett O'Hara's sweet foil in . Patricia White, a professor of film studies at Swarthmore College, says de Havilland's Melanie was

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