🌟Classic Off-Screen Quotes: Olivia de Havilland

 

"Well yes, there were problems for the studios. I had created one of them. I am the de Havilland of the legal de Havilland decision, which actually changed the course of the motion picture industry, certainly as regarding ownership of star contracts. You know, in the film industry at that time back in the studio system you just wanted to be honest with your work and do a piece of work that you could feel proud of so that you felt you deserved the money that you earned. And you wanted to be treated with respect. Some stars were fine with the fame and the money of course but some of us fought things. Like Bette Davis and Jimmy Cagney and of course me. I am the one who finally took it all on. Bette Davis Went to London in the mid-1930s and tried to sue Warners over this issue"-- Olivia de Havilland