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Legendary actress and two-time Academy Award winner Olivia de
Havilland is best known for her role as Melanie Wilkes in Gone with
the Wind (1939). She often inhabited characters who were delicate,
elegant, and refined. At the same time, she was a survivor with a
fierce desire to direct her own destiny on and off the screen. She
fought and won a lawsuit against Warner Bros. over a contract
dispute that changed the studio contract system forever. She is
also noted for her long feud with her fellow actress and sister
Joan Fontaine - a feud that lasted from 1975 until Fontaine's death
in 2013. Victoria Amador utilizes extensive interviews and forty
years of personal correspondence with de Havilland to present an
in-depth look at the life and career of this celebrated actress .
Amador begins with de Havilland's early life - she was born in
Japan in 1916 to affluent British parents who had aspirations of
success and fortune in faraway countries - and her theatrical
ambitions at a young age. The book then follows her career as she
skyrocketed to star status, becoming one of the most well-known
starlets in Tinseltown. Readers are given an inside look at her
love affairs with iconic cinema figures such as James Stewart and
John Huston, and her onscreen partnership with Errol Flynn, with
whom she starred in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) and Dodge
City (1939 ). After she moved to Europe in the mid-1950s, de
Havilland became the first woman to serve as the president of the
Cannes Film Festival in 1965, and remained active but selective in
film and television until 1988. Olivia de Havilland: Lady
Triumphant is a tribute to one of Hollywood's greatest legends, who
has evolved from a gentle heroine to a strong-willed, respected,
and admired artist.
Legendary actress and two-time Academy Award winner Olivia de
Havilland is best known for her role as Melanie Wilkes in Gone with
the Wind (1939). She often inhabited characters who were delicate,
elegant, and refined. At the same time, she was a survivor with a
fierce desire to direct her own destiny on and off the screen. She
fought and won a lawsuit against Warner Bros. over a contract
dispute that changed the studio contract system forever. She is
also noted for her long feud with her fellow actress and sister
Joan Fontaine -- a feud that lasted from 1975 until Fontaine's
death in 2013. Victoria Amador utilizes extensive interviews and
forty years of personal correspondence with de Havilland to present
an in-depth look at the life and career of this celebrated actress
. Amador begins with de Havilland's early life -- she was born in
Japan in 1916 to affluent British parents who had aspirations of
success and fortune in faraway countries -- and her theatrical
ambitions at a young age. The book then follows her career as she
skyrocketed to star status, becoming one of the most well-known
starlets in Tinseltown. Readers are given an inside look at her
love affairs with iconic cinema figures such as James Stewart and
John Huston, and her onscreen partnership with Errol Flynn, with
whom she starred in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) and Dodge
City (1939 ). After she moved to Europe in the mid-1950s, de
Havilland became the first woman to serve as the president of the
Cannes Film Festival in 1965, and remained active but selective in
film and television until 1988. Olivia de Havilland: Lady
Triumphant is a tribute to one of Hollywood's greatest legends, who
has evolved from a gentle heroine to a strong-willed, respected,
and admired artist.
The academic legitimization of Gothic studies over the last thirty
years reflects the resurgence of Gothic elements in numerous
American and British (and some significant Canadian) cultural
productions and research fields. Since the 1764 inception of the
literary Gothic with Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, Gothic
genres have evolved in waves. Rictor Norton identifies the first
wave between 1764 and 1840, the second from the late-Victorian era
of the 1880s to World War I, and the third since the mid-1970s.
Specifically, one can cite 1976 as a "formal" beginning of that
third wave with Anne Rice's landmark novel Interview with the
Vampire. While many online sites exist for the first two major
Gothic periods, the diversity and extent of works after 1976 poses
a challenge in terms of finding a central location for academically
sound materials. Thus this localization of Gothic resources from
1976 to 2008, utilizing Morville and Rosenfeld's three circles of
information architecture, constructs a third-wave portal of
electronic materials, as well as an exploration of research
methods, user needs, and an evaluation of websites, literature,
media, and library materials.
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