• Cinephilia

    On Melanie

    There’s news every other week of another movie legend leaving us; the further we get from those industry-shaping years of the first part of last century, the fewer of them there are still with us. When that news does break, I find myself – like everyone else – surprised and saddened. My next thought is usually that I wish I knew more about that person’s work, and wish I’d taken the time to appreciate them while they were still with us. Case in point: actress Olivia de Havilland turns 100 years old today. The last surviving actor from the principal cast of Gone With The Wind and Hollywood’s golden age, she’s lived her…