Olivia de Havilland

She is reported to be working on an autobiography. Her most recent public appearance was as a presenter at the 75th Annual Academy Awards in 2003. In addition, Patty Duke was:. A resident of Paris since the 1950s, de Havilland lives in retirement and makes appearances rarely. You can see with whom she shares this identification by clicking on the People with Bipolar Disorder category link at the foot of this page. She was reported to have declined the role of Blanche du Bois in A Streetcar Named Desire, citing the unsavoury nature of the some elements of the script, and saying there were certain lines she could not allow herself to speak. She continued acting until the 1980s. Many attribute some of Patty Duke’s extraordinary abilities to her being affected by bipolar disorder, commonly known as manic depression. De Havilland appeared sporadically in films after the 1950s, and attributed this partly to the growing permissiveness of Hollywood films of the period. On November 2, 2004, it was announced that Duke would undergo single bypass surgery in her adoptive home state of Idaho.

She won Best Actress Academy Awards for To Each His Own (1946) and The Heiress (1949), and was also widely praised for her Academy Award nominated performance in The Snake Pit (1948). This was one of the earliest films to attempt a realistic portrayal of mental illness, and de Havilland was lauded for her willingness to play a role that was completely devoid of glamour and, which confronted such controversial subject matter. She has written her autobiography Call me Anna (ISBN 0553272055) and Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness (ISBN 0553560727). The quality and variety of her roles began to improve. In 1984 she was elected president of the Screen Actors Guild, the first woman to hold the position. Her courage in mounting such a challenge, and her subsequent victory, won her the respect and admiration of her peers. Duke has since become an activist for numerous causes, including an important spokesperson for mental health. The decision was one of the most significant and far reaching legal rulings until that time in Hollywood. Ms.

De Havilland mounted a lawsuit in the 1940s and was successful, thereby reducing the power of the studios and extending greater creative freedom to the performers. Its treatment, which included lithium as a medication, put her on the true road to recovery. Most accepted this situation, while a few tried to change the system; Bette Davis had mounted an unsuccessful lawsuit against Warner Brothers Studios in the 1930s. In 1982 an unusual reaction to a cortisone shot she received on a set led to her being diagnosed with manic depression. In theory this allowed a studio to maintain indefinite control over an uncooperative contractree. They have one son together of their own. The law allowed for studios to suspend contract players for rejecting a role, and for the period of suspension to be added to the contract period. She and Astin divorced in 1985, then in 1986 she married drill seargent Michael Pearce, who is her present-day husband.

She felt that she had proven herself to be capable of playing more than the demure ingenues and damsels in distress that were quickly typecasting her, and began to reject scripts that offered her this type of role. Anna still suffered from depression, however, and the episodes put a strain on her relationships. Also by this time De Havilland was becoming increasingly frustrated by the roles being assigned to her. She received her second Emmy for the TV mini-series "Captains and the Kings" and her third for a TV version of The Miracle Worker in which she played Annie Sullivan. The sisters have remained estranged since this time. The marriage and her children greatly improved her self confidence and her career. He records that the sisters had an uneasy relationship, and though each has refused to comment, Higham has stated that this event was the catalyst for what would become a lifelong fued. For a time, Patty Duke even added Astin to her professional name.

Biographer Charles Higham has described the events of the award ceremony, stating that as Fontaine stepped forward to collect her award, she had pointedly rejected de Havilland's attempts at congratulating her, and that de Havilland was both offended and embarrassed by her behavior. Duke and Astin worked together extensively during their marriage. Fontaine won for her role in Alfred Hitchcock's Suspicion (1941) over de Havilland's nomination for Hold Back the Dawn (1941). In 1972 John Astin married Duke and fathered her second son Mackenzie Astin born in 1973. De Havilland and her sister Fontaine, were each nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in 1942. This was a daring thing for him to do, as there reporters outside the hospital that were eager for news that the newborn was his grandson. She played Melanie Wilkes in Gone With The Wind (1939) and received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress nomination for her performance. made a kindly visit to Duke when she was in the hospital.

She appeared as Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935), and played opposite Errol Flynn in such highly popular films as Captain Blood and The Charge of the Light Brigade (both 1936), and as Maid Marian to Flynn's Robin Hood in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938). had long since ended, Desi Arnaz, Sr. De Havilland's career began in Alibi Ike in 1935. Even though the affair with Desi Jr. Her sister is the actress Joan Fontaine (born 1917), from whom she is famously estranged. On February 21, 1971 she gave birth to her first son Sean Astin (who has since become a major actor in his own right). She is the daughter of British parents, patent attorney Walter de Havilland, and actress Lillian Fontaine. Duke believed the father to be John Astin, however.

Olivia Mary de Havilland (born July 1, 1916 in Tokyo, Japan), is a US film actress. Much of the public assumed that the father was Arnaz, due to the media hype of the affair, and therefore Duke was carrying the illegitimate grandchild of TV legends Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. De Havilland was good friends with actress Bette Davis. After the marriage Duke was pregnant with her first child. Subsequently, the school's theater is named after her. The marriage was annulled two weeks later. De Havilland attended Los Gatos High School in Los Gatos, California as a teen. In what was likely to have been a depressive episode Duke quickly married rock promoter Michael Tell, who she had literally just met.

The relationship did not last, partially because Arnaz's mother, Lucille Ball, did not approve and reportedly ordered her son to stop seeing Duke. Around this time she became romantically involved with actor John Astin, and also entered into a short-lived but highly publicized affair with Desi Arnaz, Jr. However, Duke made a strong career comeback in the 1969 TV movie My Sweet Charlie, for which she won her first Emmy. It was during the marriage to Falk that she made Valley of the Dolls, a critical disaster that raised questions as to her ability as an adult actress.

Duke's heavy drinking and drug abuse, coupled with suicide attempts and anorexia drove the man into an affair that ended the marriage after four years. At the age of 18 she married director Harry Falk who was nearly twice her age at the time. Furthermore, she was not socially or emotionally prepared to live on her own. Upon turning 18, Duke became free of the Rosses, only to find that they had squandered most of her earnings (although she has stated that the money was nothing compared to what they had done to her life).

The phone was later connected when she befriended Frank Sinatra, Jr. Duke accused both John and Ethel Ross of sexual abuse. At the same time, efforts were taken to portray her as a normal teenager; publicity shots of Duke in her room showed a telephone which was not even connected. The Rosses also began providing Duke with alcohol and prescription drugs starting when she was as young as 13, which led to substance abuse problems later. The Rosses kept control over Duke and her mother by allowing them only a pittance.

She reports being treated as a virtual prisoner by her managers the Rosses and had little control over her own life and her own earnings. Despite the success of her career, Duke was deeply unhappy during her teenage years. The show lasted for three seasons, and earned her one Emmy Award nomination. In 1963 Duke landed her own series "The Patty Duke Show" in which she played both the main characters Patty Lane and her "identical cousin" Cathy Lane.

The play was made into the 1962 film The Miracle Worker, for which Duke received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress; she was the youngest person to receive an Academy Award at age 16. Midway through the run, she was honored by having her name placed above the title on the marquee. However, Duke's first major role was playing Helen Keller (with Anne Bancroft as Annie Sullivan) in the Broadway play The Miracle Worker which ran for nearly two years. One of Duke's first acting jobs was on the soap opera The Brighter Day, in the late 1950s.

Ethel Ross gave the sweeping name-change order "Anna Marie is dead, you are Patty now" which, though perhaps innocently intended, resounded painfully with Anna for decades to come. The Rosses methods were somewhat unscrupulous: they consistently billed her as two years younger than she was, and padded her resume with some false credits. When she was 8, her life was essentially turned over to her managers John and Ethel Ross who recognized her talent and promoted her as a child actress. When Duke was 6, her mother threw her father out.

Her father was an alcoholic, and her mother was manic depressive prone to violence. Duke's personal life from childhood resembled something out of Dickens. In 1986 she married Michael Pierce. From 1972 to 1985, she was married to John Astin, the father of her actor children, Sean Astin and Mackenzie Astin.

She also won a Golden Globe for Me, Natalie in 1969, which also featured the first on screen role of actor Al Pacino. Born Anna Marie Duke in Elmhurst, Queens, New York, she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1962 for her role as Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker. Patty Duke (born December 14, 1946) is an actress of the stage and screen. First child actor to star in an eponymous television series, The Patty Duke Show, at the age of 16.

President of the Screen Actor's Guild from 1984-1988.