Her sister was Joan Fontaine who died in 2013. The two sisters were estranged most of their lives. Fontaine thought it was because she got married and won an Oscar before de Havilland did. If that's true, de Havilland was a horrible person.
Olivia is in the news because she's suing the makers of an anthology series called Feud. They included de Havilland as a character without her permission in an episode about the feud between Joan Crawford and Bette Davis. They showed her gossiping about her friends and calling her sister a "bitch".
I did some math. For Gone with the Wind fans, here's what Melanie Hamilton would have looked like around 1940 if she hadn't died at the end of the movie:
There's still time! There's one other member of the original, credited cast of Gone with the Wind still living---Mickey Kuhn who played Ashley and Melanie's son, Beau. They could still do a sequel with the original cast. It could have elderly Beau living with his 101-year-old mother in a run-down apartment in Atlanta in 1940 living on her pension as a Confederate war widow. She died at the end of Gone with the Wind, but there are ways around that.
"Mother, I think you should see a doctor."
"I don't trust doctors, not since Dr Meade wrongly declared me dead."
"That was 1873, Mother. Dr Meade was old! He was born in the 1700's. There've been a lot of advances since then!"
"Oh---turn up the radio! They're talking about that nice Adolf Hitler again! Your father was in the Ku Klux Klan. He would have adored Hitler!"
"He's a raving madman!"
"He's just high-spirited."
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