Final call for true Hollywood legend

Olivia de Havilland, a two-time Oscar winner and one of the last links to Hollywood's golden era, has died aged 104.

The actress, who starred in blockbusters like Gone With the Wind and played opposite such leading men as Errol Flynn, personified the glamour and elegance of a bygone age of moviemaking.

She was said to have died peacefully from natural causes on Sunday at her home in Paris, where she lived since the 1950s.

"There aren't many who deserve to be called a 'legend,'" tweeted movie columnist Scott Feinberg, "but Olivia de Havilland ... certainly was one."

De Havilland starred in 49 movies from 1935 to 2009.

She was known for her colorful off-screen life and a bitter feud with sister and fellow actress Joan Fontaine.

And she earned the enduring appreciation of fellow actors when a suit she won against Warner Bros - who extended her contract even as she rejected scripts - led to a 1945 ruling that gave actors power to choose roles.

Turner Classic Movies host Ben Mankiewicz said beyond her two Oscars "her greatest contribution came in court, setting a template for labor rights in Hollywood." She was blacklisted for three years while the case ran but her victory relaunched her career.

Olivia Mary de Havilland was born on July 1, 1916 in Tokyo, daughter of a British lawyer and actress Lilian Fontaine. When they divorced three years later Fontaine took her two daughters to California.

In her teens, de Havilland was discovered by director Max Reinhardt in an amateur show. She was married twice - to author Marcus Goodrich (1946-1953) and then to Pierre Galante, editor of the French magazine Paris Match.