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“... from any other form of employment because it was for exclusive personal services,’ according to Olivia de Havilland, who won an important legal victory for artistic freedom by challenging the accepted rule that studios had the right to suspend a contract player for rejecting a role.At the top of this money tree was Louis B. Mayer. Forget about his ...”

“... listening to a learned authority answer every question but the one you asked. Other actresses – Olivia de Havilland, Jean Simmons – were to be recipients of these neutered valentines, a good-bad speciality of Agee’s criticism. The dandyism teeters on the brink of self-parody when he devotes three paragraphs to the child Margaret O’Brien in Meet Me in ...”

“... circumstances, like those explored in Shakespeare’s Sonnets, or in the Orsino-Cesario/Viola and Olivia-Malvolio plots from Twelfth Night, the ‘assured friendship’ of master and servant might itself be transformed into the more intense desire for the other which the Greeks characterised as eros.Thus Twelfth Night can seem ‘as much a study of ...”

“... blog about how they feel, where they go and what they experience’. An article by Olivia Solon in Wired magazine questioned the guys behind it. ‘The team … won’t reveal exactly how the Weavrs algorithm works – referring to it as their black box,’ Solon wrote, ‘but say they create personalities from social data that then “blog ...”

“... by the response to his work by English critics and writers. There was a wonderful encounter with Olivia Manning when she berated him for his pessimism, his aridity and his lack of hope. But the two actors and Beckett were insiders as much as outsiders in the great city, they were deeply treasured and supported with immense zeal by powerful people in ...”

“... of her experience at Rockland State Hospital, just north of New York City, The Snake Pit starred Olivia de Havilland as Virginia, a disturbed woman who gets caught inside the nightmare of asylum care, until she is rescued by a psychoanalytically informed psychiatrist. Much of the film focuses on the series of punishing treatments Virginia suffers ...”

“... information office, which was directly opposite, took up the game, with generally poor results. Olivia Manning, loosely disguised as Harriet in The Balkan Trilogy, provides this commentary:She walked … across the square into the Calea Victoriei and, passing through the parrot-land of the Gypsy flower-sellers, reached the British Propaganda Bureau. No one ...”

“... careless drivers or obscene dead black men with flies hanging like a curtain over their wounds.’ Olivia Manning, who had been evacuated from Bucharest, agreed: the squalor was shocking, but not as shocking as the locals’ ‘contentment with squalor’.It’s such an English attitude, this inability to forgive the rest of the world for not being ...”