Hollywood icon Olivia de Havilland — the Oscar-winning star of timeless classics including "Gone With the Wind" and "The Adventures of Robin Hood" — died Sunday, according to her rep.
She was 104.
The two-time Academy Award-winning actress died peacefully from natural causes at the home in her home in Paris, France where she had lived more than 60 years, her publicist Lisa Goldberg said.
"We at TCM are saddened to hear that beloved film icon and one of the last remaining stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood, Olivia de Havilland has passed away," Turner Classic Movies also confirmed in a tweet.
Long considered one of the greats from Hollywood's golden era, de Havilland was also behind a pivotal legal victory in 1944 that forever changed Hollywood's studio system and the business of moviemaking.
She successfully sued Warner Bros. to stop it from tying her to the studio after she refused to accept the roles she was being offered — a liberation still unofficially known as the "De Havilland law."
De Havilland had turned 104 in July and was the longest surviving star of "Gone With the Wind" — an irony she took delight in given that her character, Melanie Wilkes, was the only major one to die in the film.
Starring alongside Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable, she called the 1939 epic "one of the happiest experiences I've ever had in my life."
"It was doing something I wanted to do, playing a character I loved and liked," she once said...
Olivia de Havilland, 'Gone With the Wind' star, dead at 104