The Unprecedented Bravery of Olivia de Havilland
The Gone With the Wind film legend, who died at age 104, went up against a broken Hollywood studio system—and helped change the industry forever.
Todd S. Purdum
Todd S. Purdum is a former staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of Something Wonderful: Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Broadway Revolution.
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