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Showing posts with label Photos. Show all posts

Thursday, November 1, 2012

[Photo] Olivia De Havilland, Laurence Olivier, and Vivien Leigh


Dining at the Trocadero Supper Club
on Sunset Boulevard (Hollywood, California)
1947  1939


Monday, October 22, 2012

[Photo] Joan Fontaine relaxing poolside at her home in Beverly Hills, 1947


(Photo taken at The Hollywood Museum)

Saturday, May 1, 2010

Photos from LIFE Magazine 1942


Actress Joan Fontaine w. her actress sister Olivia De Havilland looking out of an open window at her home.
Photo by: Bob Landry, April 1942. LIFE Magazine


L-R: Brian Aherne and Joan Fontaine (with Olivia de Havilland) having tea on the patio of their Georgian home.
Photo by: Bob Landry, April 1942. LIFE Magazine

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Photo: Joan Looking at the Oscar she won for "Suspicion"


Photographer: Peter Stackpole of LIFE
Originally Published in LIFE Magazine
March 1, 1942



Is it just me, or does she look like Julia Roberts in this picture?

Monday, November 17, 2008

Olivia honored at the White House, November 2008

In November of 2008, Olivia traveled to Washington DC to recieve the National Medal of Arts, for her lifetime achievements and contributions to American culture as an actress.


Photo by James Kegley for the National Endowment for the Arts

Watch the clip of Olivia getting her medal here:



Read the Press Release from the National Endowment for the Arts


The 2008 National Medal of Arts was awarded to Olivia de Havilland and presented by President Bush on November 17, 2008 in an East Room ceremony. de Havilland was honored "for her persuasive and compelling skill as an actress in roles from Shakespeare's Hermia to Margaret Mitchell's Melanie. Her independence, integrity, and grace won creative freedom for herself and her fellow film actors." The National Medal of Arts is a presidential initiative managed by the National Endowment for the Arts.

UPI Photos:



Above: President George Bush greets actress Olivia De Havilland prior to presenting her with the 2008 National Medals of Arts during a ceremony in the East Room at the White House on November 17, 2008. (UPI Photo/Kevin Dietsch)

Below: Olivia with her medal



LIFE Photos (Mark Wilson, photographer):