To Olivia de Havilland on Her 100th Birthday

To mark the occasion of the 100th birthday of actress Olivia de Havilland, born July 1 1916, we tell the story of a career of two halves, and how, in throwing down the gauntlet to Jack L. Warner and his studio, she emerged the victor.
In 1934, a young Olivia de Havilland was offered a part in the Saratoga Community Theater production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Three hundred miles south of Santa Clara County, a more ambitious staging of the same play was soon to transform the H