It's remarkable that an actress who starred in Gone With the Wind, won two Oscars and lived to 104 made her biggest impact on Hollywood by winning a lawsuit.
Olivia de Havilland — who died July 26 in Paris — was 20 when on May 5, 1936, she signed a seven-year contract with Warner Bros. (She was loaned to MGM for the filming of GWTW two years later.) But seven times during the contract's term, de Havilland declined to appear in pictures that Warners had cast her in.
The studio then "suspended" her contract for periods when she wasn't working. In 1943, de Havilland said her contract had expired, but Warners contended that she owed them six more months because of the time she'd spent under suspension.
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