Every Frenchman Has One (Signed)

Olivia de Havilland

New York, Random House, 1962

Inscribed by Academy Award Winner Olivia de Havilland on front end page. First Printing. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Some toning to edges. *Autographed by author.* 202 p., 21 cm. *Autographed by author.* 

  Olivia de Havilland was an American motion-picture actress remembered for the lovely and gentle ingenues of her early career as well as for the later, more substantial roles she fought to secure. The daughter of a British patent attorney, de Havilland and her younger sister, Joan Fontaine, moved to California in 1919 with their mother, an actress. While attending school, de Havilland was chosen from the cast of a local California production of A Midsummer Night's Dream to play Hermia in a 1935 Warner Brothers film version of that play. As the sweet-tempered beauty to Errol Flynn's gallant swain, she appeared in many costume adventure movies of the 1930s and '40s, including Captain Blood (1935), The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), and They Died with Their Boots On (1941). She also played romantic leading roles in Strawberry Blonde (1941), Hold Back the Dawn (1941), and The Male Animal (1942) and portrayed Melanie Wilkes in Gone with the Wind (1939).