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Home theater: Movies from women who showed Hollywood who’s boss

When I heard the news last month that Olivia de Havilland had died at 104, I remembered back to 2006 when I attended her 90th birthday celebration at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills, California. She was the most radiant nonagenarian I had ever seen. I felt strangely proud to be in her company, not only because of her iconic career but also for something about which few outside the film business had

Olivia de Havilland in “The Heiress”Viola Davis in “Fences”Barbra Streisand in “Yentl”

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