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Olivia De Havilland Trivia
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- De Havilland attended Los Gatos High School in Los Gatos, California as a teen. Subsequently, an acting award at the school is named after her.
- Lost her son Benjamin to Hodgkins disease in 1991, shortly before Benjamin's father, writer Marcus Goodrich, passed away.
- Daughter of film and stage actress Lillian Fontaine.
- Relations between de Havilland and younger sister Joan Fontaine were never all that strong and worsened in 1941, when both were nominated for 'Best Actress' Oscar awards. Their mutual dislike and jealousy escalated into an all-out feud after Fontaine won for Suspicion (1941). Despite the fact de Havilland went on to win two Academy Awards of her own, they remained permanently estranged.
- Showed flair as a writer when 'Every Fenchman Has One', a lighthearted autobiographical account of her attempts at adapting to French life, was published in 1962.
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