Havilland, the sister of fellow Oscar winner Joan Fontaine, died peacefully of natural causes, said New York-based publicist Lisa Goldberg. But de Havilland remembered the movie as “one of the happiest experiences I’ve ever had in my life. In 2008, de Havilland received a National Medal of Arts and was awarded France’s Legion of Honour two years later. She was also famous, not always for the better, as the sister of Fontaine, with whom she had a troubled relationship. “I wanted to be a stage actress,” she recalled.

Source: Stuff July 26, 2020 17:03 UTC