List of the best Olivia de Havilland movies: The Heiress(1949), To Each His Own(1946), The Snake Pit(1948), Light in the Piazza(1962), Lady in a Cage(1964), My Love Came Back(1940), Call It a Day(1937), Not as a Stranger(1955), My Cousin Rachel(1952), The Adventures of Robin Hood(1938), Captain Blood(1935), Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte(1965) ... ...
Drama
USA
1949
115 Minutes
Olivia de Havilland Montgomery Clift Ralph Richardson Miriam Hopkins Vanessa Brown Mona Freeman Ray Collins Betty Linley Selena Royle Paul Lees Harry Antrim
heiress father bachelor emotional sad somber household california deception heartbreak disillusionment father/daughter relationship fortune forbidden love sacrifice revenge 1880s
A young naive woman falls for a handsome young man who her emotionally abusive father suspects is a fortune hunter.
Drama
USA
1946
122 Minutes
Miss Josephine "Jody" Norris
Olivia de Havilland John Lund Mary Anderson Roland Culver Phillip Terry Bill Goodwin Virginia Welles Victoria Horne Griff Barnett Alma Macrorie Bill Ward
businesswoman pilot lord wife father son engaging fascinating intense london roof new york state pharmacy household train station illegitimate child adoption jealousy love world war ii
An unwed mother, forced to give up her child to avoid scandal, follows her son's life from afar even as she prospers in business.
Drama
USA
1948
108 Minutes
Virginia Stuart Cunningham
mental patient husband psychiatrist disturbing emotional gripping mental institution united states household mental illness marriage romance childhood psychoanalysis fall love transformation 1940s
A detailed chronicle of a woman during her stay in a mental institution.
Drama
USA
1962
101 Minutes
Meg Johnson
Olivia de Havilland Rossano Brazzi Yvette Mimieux George Hamilton Barry Sullivan Isabel Dean Moultrie Kelsall Nancy Nevinson Rosella Spinelli William E. Greene Robert Rietty
mother daughter suitor tourist emotional melodramatic florence, italy rome romance mental retardation love parenthood growing up rise 1960s
Upper class Americans Noel and Meg Johnson have a twenty-six year old daughter named Clara Johnson. Clara suffered a head injury as a child which resulted in her being mentally disabled. ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1964
93 Minutes
Mrs. Cornelia Hilyard
Olivia de Havilland Ann Sothern James Caan Jeff Corey Rafael Campos Scatman Crothers Jennifer Billingsley Charles Seel
A woman trapped in a home elevator is terrorized by a group of vicious hoodlums.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1940
81 Minutes
Amelia Cornell
Olivia de Havilland Jeffrey Lynn Charles Winninger Eddie Albert Jane Wyman Spring Byington William T. Orr Ann Gillis S.Z. Sakall Grant Mitchell Charles Trowbridge
Amelia is a gifted violinist who is in danger of quitting the Brissac Academy of Music. Julius arranges to have a scholarship given to her through his employee Tony so that Julius can ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1937
89 Minutes
Catherine `'Cath'` Hilton
Olivia de Havilland Ian Hunter Anita Louise Alice Brady Roland Young Frieda Inescort Bonita Granville Peggy Wood Marcia Ralston Walter Woolf King Peter Willes
The first day of spring has a profound affect on the Hilton family. The father, an accountant, finds himself unable to work, and when he tries to work, he is wooed by an actress whose taxes... See full summary »
Drama
1955
135 Minutes
Kristina Hedvigson
Olivia de Havilland Robert Mitchum Frank Sinatra Gloria Grahame Broderick Crawford Charles Bickford Myron McCormick Lon Chaney Jesse White Harry Morgan Lee Marvin
medical student nurse doctor mistress friend engaging emotional intense college small town doctor's office household ambition medicine business love infidelity betrayal discovery temptation
An intern (Robert Mitchum) marries a nurse (Olivia de Havilland) who can pay the bills on his way up as a doctor.
Mystery & Thriller
1952
98 Minutes
Rachel Sangalletti Ashley
Olivia de Havilland Richard Burton Audrey Dalton John Sutton Ronald Squire George Dolenz Tudor Owen J.M. Kerrigan Margaret Brewster Argentina Brunetti Mario Siletti
wife man cousin wealthy man brooding dark mansion funeral england murder inheritance love mystery forbidden love temptation victorian era
Adventure, Action
USA
1938
102 Minutes
Maid Marian
Michael Curtiz Errol Flynn Olivia de Havilland Basil Rathbone Claude Rains Patric Knowles Eugene Pallette Alan Hale Herbert Mundin Una O'Connor Melville Cooper
robin hood prince king sheriff of nottingham pretty woman outlaw thrilling cheery rousing forest england castle rebellion corruption royalty wealth quest adventure rescue middle ages
When Prince John and the Norman Lords begin oppressing the Saxon masses in King Richard's absence, a Saxon lord fights back as the outlaw leader of a rebel guerrilla army.
Adventure
USA
1935
119 Minutes
Arabella Bishop
Errol Flynn Olivia de Havilland Basil Rathbone Lionel Atwill Ross Alexander Guy Kibbee Henry Stephenson George Hassell Forrester Harvey Frank McGlynn Robert Barrat
doctor pirate lady governor government official sailor brash confident thrilling england port royal, jamaica ship pirates treason slavery rebellion adventure transformation 17th century
A young Irish doctor is exiled as a slave to Jamaica where he captures a Spanish galleon and becomes the most feared pirate of the Caribbean.
Horror
USA
1965
133 Minutes
Bette Davis Olivia de Havilland Joseph Cotten Agnes Moorehead Cecil Kellaway Victor Buono Mary Astor Bruce Dern
spinster murderer housekeeper suspenseful dark creepy campy louisiana household plantation murder death dreams drugs mystery fall 1920s
An aging, reclusive Southern belle plagued by a horrifying family secret descends into madness after the arrival of a lost relative.
Drama
USA
1942
97 Minutes
Bette Davis Olivia de Havilland George Brent Dennis Morgan Charles Coburn Frank Craven Billie Burke Hattie McDaniel Lee Patrick
socialite decorator lawyer doctor melodramatic brash maryland the south racism sibling rivalry infidelity adultery divorce self-destruction rivalry forbidden love fall 1940s
The day before her wedding, a pampered young woman absconds with her sister's husband; in retaliation, her sister begins seeing the woman's former fiancé.
Romance
USA
1941
115 Minutes
Emmy Brown
Charles Boyer Olivia de Havilland Paulette Goddard Victor Francen Walter Abel Curt Bois Rosemary DeCamp Eric Feldary Nestor Paiva Eva Puig Micheline Cheirel
gigolo teacher girlfriend melodramatic mexico los angeles border hollywood, calif. immigration love deception escape discovery 1940s
Stopped in Mexico by U.S. Immigration, Georges Iscovescu hopes to get into the country by marrying a citizen.
Romance
USA
1941
97 Minutes
Amy Lind
James Cagney Olivia de Havilland Rita Hayworth Alan Hale George Tobias Jack Carson Una O'Connor George Reeves Lucille Fairbanks Edward McNamara Herbert Heywood
dentist nurse sweetheart rival father love interest cheeky confident engaging amusing new york city dentist's office park office construction site courtship marriage duplicity bribery politics
Quick-tempered yet likable Biff Grimes falls for the beautiful Virginia Brush, but he is not the only young man in the neighborhood who is smitten with her.
Western
USA
1941
138 Minutes
Elizabeth Bacon
Errol Flynn Olivia de Havilland Arthur Kennedy Charley Grapewin Gene Lockhart Anthony Quinn Stanley Ridges Sydney Greenstreet Regis Toomey Hattie McDaniel
general wife american indian chief father soldier thrilling spectacular confident patriotic battlefield military academy montana gen. george armstrong custer american civil war military life leadership indian wars sacrifice quest 1870s
When one of two truck-driving brothers loses an arm, they both join a transport company where the other is falsely charged as an accessory in the murder of the owner.
Western
USA
1939
104 Minutes
Abbie Irving
Errol Flynn Olivia de Havilland Ann Sheridan Bruce Cabot Frank McHugh Alan Hale John Litel Victor Jory Henry Travers Henry O'Neill Guinn "Big Boy" Williams
sheriff deputy girl thief cattle rustler frenetic thrilling gutsy spirited dodge city, kan. train law and order american west frontier justice cattle drives adventure love pursuit revenge 1870s
A Texas cattle agent witnesses first hand, the brutal lawlessness of Dodge City and takes the job of sheriff to clean the town up.
Drama
UK|USA
1959
100 Minutes
Lady Margaret Loddon
A shell-shocked World War II veteran with memory problems is accused of being an impostor by a former comrade.
Action
USA
1936
116 Minutes
Elsa Campbell
Errol Flynn Olivia de Havilland Patric Knowles Donald Crisp Henry Stephenson Nigel Bruce David Niven G.P. Huntley Jr. Spring Byington C. Henry Gordon E.E. Clive
military officer brother fiancée rajah soldier emotional patriotic rousing india military base palace battlefield love triangle battle of balaklava historical events crimean war revenge quest love 1850s
A major countermands orders and attacks to avenge a previous massacre of men, women, and children.
Western
USA
1958
103 Minutes
Alan Ladd Olivia de Havilland Dean Jagger David Ladd Cecil Kellaway Henry Hull
father son doctor dog farmer sheriff suspenseful melodramatic heartwarming illinois doctor's office farm wild west general store forest father/son relationship grief disability new town wrongful conviction
A Confederate veteran living in the Yankee North struggles with his son's shock induced muteness and the hate of the Northerners.
Comedy
USA
1942
101 Minutes
Henry Fonda Olivia de Havilland Jack Carson Joan Leslie Herb Anderson Don DeFore Hattie McDaniel Eugene Pallette
professor dean student wife ex-boyfriend trustee uplifting emotional family home university midwest free speech censorship love triangle education career rivalry transformation 1940s
It's Homecoming weekend at Midwestern University, the weekend which will culminate with the big game between Midwestern and Michigan. Homecoming marks the return for the first time in six ... See full summary »
Crime, Drama
USA
1940
72 Minutes
David Niven Olivia de Havilland Dudley Digges Dame May Whitty Douglas Walton Lionel Pape E.E. Clive Peter Godfrey Margaret Seddon Gilbert Emery Hilda Plowright
Man about town and First Class cricketer A.J. Raffles keeps himself solvent with daring robberies. Meeting Gwen from his schooldays and falling in love all over again, he spends the weekend... See full summary »
Romance
USA
1936
140 Minutes
Angela Guiseppe
Fredric March Olivia de Havilland Gale Sondergaard Edmund Gwenn Claude Rains Anita Louise Louis Hayward Steffi Duna Billy Mauch Donald Woods Akim Tamiroff
hero pretty woman father mother grandfather melodramatic emotional passionate italy europe france africa cuba abandonment illegitimate child expedition romance adventure discovery quest
In 18th-century Italy, an orphan's debt to the man who raised him threatens to separate him forever from the woman he loves.
Comedy
USA
1935
73 Minutes
Joe E. Brown Olivia de Havilland William Frawley Roscoe Karns Joe King Ruth Donnelly Paul Harvey Eddie Shubert G. Pat Collins Spencer Charters Gene Morgan
pitcher fiancée baseball manager baseball player gambler wife hilarious thrilling chicago baseball field stadium household baseball gambling lying kidnapping engagement love rise transformation
Idiosyncratic new recruit Francis "Ike" Farrell tries to help the Cubs to the pennant with his pitching and hitting.
Western
USA
1938
90 Minutes
Serena "Sprat" Ferris
George Brent Olivia de Havilland Claude Rains Margaret Lindsay John Litel Tim Holt Barton MacLane Henry O'Neill Marcia Ralston George "Gabby" Hayes Sidney Toler
farmer miner son daughter girlfriend brother engaging tense san francisco mine household office mining family feud greed rivalry transformation 1870s
Hydraulic Mining versus Sacramento Valley Farming.
Action
USA
1939
88 Minutes
Irene Dale
George Brent Olivia de Havilland John Payne Frank McHugh John Litel Victor Jory Henry O'Neill John Ridgely John Gallaudet Donald Briggs Edgar Edwards
Jerry and Cass have always been competitive. Now that Cass is a well respected Naval aviator like his father, Jerry leaves the submarine service to become a flying cadet with Class 61 at ... See full summary »
Comedy
1937
91 Minutes
Germaine
Brian Aherne Olivia de Havilland Edward Everett Horton Melville Cooper Luis Alberni Lionel Atwill Marie Wilson Lana Turner Linda Perry Craig Reynolds Dorothy Tree
actor countess love interest fan servant amusing outlandish witty paris inn england stage impersonation performance romance misunderstanding theater david garrick rivalry transformation
French actors stage a hoax to deflate the ego of the famed 18th-century British actor (Brian Aherne).
Romance
1938
80 Minutes
Margaret Richards
Dick Powell Olivia de Havilland Charles Winninger Allen Jenkins Bonita Granville Melville Cooper Isabel Jeans Grady Sutton Thurston Hall John Ridgely Jack Mower
heiress tycoon architect gas station attendant maid valet airy amusing winsome mansion gas station office class distinctions romance father/daughter relationship opposites attract wealth revenge love growing up
An heiress (Olivia De Havilland) gets even with a gas-pumping architect (Dick Powell) by introducing him to her father (Charles Winninger).
Drama, History
USA
1988
97 Minutes
Aunt Bessie Merryman
Jane Seymour Anthony Andrews Olivia de Havilland Lucy Gutteridge Julie Harris Robert Hardy Phyllis Calvert
Nobu, an old, bigoted, Japanese-American traditionalist, is unable to reconcile the needs of his wife and two daughters with his own conservative view on life, which forces them to leave him in pursuit of their own happiness.
Biography
USA
1946
107 Minutes
Charlotte Bronte
Ida Lupino Paul Henreid Olivia de Havilland Sydney Greenstreet Nancy Coleman Arthur Kennedy Dame May Whitty Victor Francen Montagu Love Ethel Griffies Odette Myrtil
author artist sister brother melodramatic emotional england household writing romance emily bronte charlotte bronte anne bronte love 19th century
Genius authors Emily and Charlotte Bronte fall in love with their curate as they seek to get their work published.
Comedy
USA
1935
84 Minutes
Lucille Jackson
James Cagney Pat O'Brien Olivia de Havilland Frank McHugh Allen Jenkins Mary Gordon J. Farrell MacDonald Thomas E. Jackson Harvey Parry Mabel Colcord Edward Keane
brother police officer boxer promoter mother girlfriend amusing heartwarming emotional cheeky dance floor boxing ring family home city love triangle boxing sibling rivalry family feud ambition mother/son relationship
Two brothers, a police officer and a boxing promoter, vie for the affections of a lovely young woman.
Romance, History, Drama
USA
1939
222 Minutes
Melanie Hamilton Wilkes
Clark Gable Vivien Leigh Leslie Howard Olivia de Havilland Thomas Mitchell Barbara O'Neil Victor Jory Laura Hope Crews Hattie McDaniel Ona Munson Harry Davenport
ingénue soldier husband cousin slave emotional touching family home atlanta park household saloon georgia american civil war romance jealousy marriage friendship love triangle forbidden love
A manipulative woman and a roguish man conduct a turbulent romance during the American Civil War and Reconstruction periods.
Drama
UK
1972
132 Minutes
Mother Superior
Liv Ullmann Keir Dullea Maximilian Schell Olivia de Havilland Lesley-Anne Down Trevor Howard Jeremy Kemp Patrick Magee Franco Nero Robert Beatty Natasha Nicolescu
In medieval Europe, a pious young woman becomes a scholar of theology, disguises herself as a man, rises through the Catholic Church hierarchy and is elected Pope.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
USA
1977
113 Minutes
Emily Livingston
Jack Lemmon Lee Grant George Kennedy Brenda Vaccaro James Stewart Joseph Cotten Olivia de Havilland Darren McGavin Christopher Lee Robert Foxworth Robert Hooks
girlfriend millionaire pilot hijacker flight attendant tense suspenseful amusing bermuda triangle hijacking rescue lost trapped plane crash heroism discovery escape 1970s
Art thieves hijack a 747, hit fog and crash into the ocean, trapping them and the passengers under one hundred feet of water.
Adventure
USA
1970
191 Minutes
Deborah Hadley
Bekim Fehmiu Charles Aznavour Alan Badel Candice Bergen Thommy Berggren Delia Boccardo Ernest Borgnine Rossano Brazzi Olivia de Havilland Anna Moffo Leigh Taylor-Young
The wealthy playboy son of an assassinated South American diplomat discovers that his father was really murdered on orders of the corrupt president of the country--a man who was his ... See full summary »