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, LI VIA DE HAVILLAND used to be the little girl for whom everybody in her vicinity felt a personal responsibility. She was so young, so pretty, so naive, so inexperienced — so appealingly helpless. She needed advice. She needed protection. She madeja picture once with an actor
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notorious as a Big Bad Wolf. Electricians, high on parallels above the set, kept an unceasing watch on him, prepared to drop lamps on his head — "accidentally" — if he so much as leered at Olivia.
Older actresses felt it a duty to take her to one side and tell her — not the facts of life (never that !) but the facts of skin
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Older actors felt it a duty, a very pleasant duty, to sit beside her between scenes, telling her what they had learned about acting in their time, and, incidentally, guarding her against brash young upstarts.
Girls of her own approximate age, pitying Olivia as a shy little recluse who didn't know how to have fun, felt nobly instructive, telling her what they thought of this boy and that, this party and that night club.
Young men, who found it easy enough to approach other girls, were awed by Olivia. She was so armored with good manners, so intellectual. They got a virtuous "lift" out of being politely intellectual— with her.
Interviewers felt embarrassed, asking her if she had given any thought to love. They spared her questions that they automatically asked other Hollywood eyefuls.
Her bosses regarded her as one actress who could always be persuaded to do any role, if the studio thought it would be good for her.
And Olivia reacted so sweetly to all the protection and advice that everybody who knew her felt personally appointed to be one of her guardian angels.
Now, suddenly, people are asking: "What has happened to Olivia de Havilland ?" They are saying, resentfully, that she has changed.
What the)r mean is that they have had to change. They haven't been able to keep on feeling sorry for her. And they resent it.
They advised her not to play Melanie in Gone With the Wind. They said that no one — and they meant Olivia, particularly— could stand out in the role, against the competition of the vivid Scarlett. She still wanted to play it. She gave such a performance that she was nominated for the Academy Award. The girl they had catalogued as The Sweetest Young Thing in Pictures [Continued on page 76]