Hello and welcome once again to the cinnophiles where we're doing this sad duty that we have to do every once in a while. This one, I got to say, is more of a celebration. We lost the great Olivia to Haviland. She's the last of the golden age actors to pass. You know, we commemorated Kirk Douglas, who was just about the same age, a couple years younger, just six

months ago with Spartacus.

And I just wanted to take a moment, maybe to talk about this era that is passing. You know, the world was so different when Olivia de Haviland was a star

from how it is today. You know, she's part of the studio system and I, you know, I looked up, I didn't know a whole lot about her and I looked up some of her history and she is a fascinating person. Yeah. So her mom was an actress. Her mom went to Rada and was in the theater and so

Olivia was not only raised taking ballet classes and singing classes but she was

forced to recite Shakespeare as a five-year-old kid.

Yeah, not a negative, I think.

It's good to be cultured and educated at a young age.

And, you know, we've seen that people who are educated... and educated at a

for the most part to have a better life.

So getting a jump on it younger is certainly a way to go.

Well, and it's also going like, this is the world you're going to go into.

Yeah, true. And here's what I didn't know is I knew she was born in England. What I didn't know is that she

grew up right near me. She actually, her family moved to the San Francisco Bay Area and she was down in

Los Gatos, which is where my uncle and my cousins live just in the, down in the peninsula and

she was acting in plays.

Her first play was, you know, was a kid acting in the community theater

production of Alice in Wonderland.

And then she acted in, she went to Mills College, which again is in the Bay Area, and she got cast as Puck in

Midsummer's Night's Dream, which is pretty cool, but you know, you played in college plays,

I played in college plays, played in college plays what we didn't

have was that Max Reinhart the director did not come to our college plays and Max Reinhart

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