![]() Going from tormented to the tormentor in Hush.Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964), she took on the role of the manipulative cousin to a wealthy shut-in played by Bette Davis. Not even 50 yet, she found herself playing a widow trapped in her home elevator and tormented by thugs in Lady in a Cage (1964). But when I read of Olivia de Havilland's passing two weeks ago, I couldn't help but think of how her once-A-list career had been reduced to B-movie roles as she entered middle age. ![]() Even more famously, she was Catherine Sloper in William Wyler's The Heiress: it was a transformative, unglamorous role which earned her a second Oscar. More famously, she was Melanie Hamilton, foil to Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind. ![]() She was Ruth and Terry Collins, the good and bad twins in Robert Siodmak's film noir The Dark Mirror. ![]()
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