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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