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Every Frenchman has one / by Olivia de Havilland.

by De Havilland, Olivia.

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Crown Archetype, 2016.

De Havilland, Olivia -- Travel -- France -- Paris.

National characteristics, French.

Americans -- France -- Paris -- Biography.

Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography.

France -- Social life and customs.

9780451497390 (hc.)

First Crown Archetype edition.

143 pages ; 19 cm.

"Originally published in slightly different form in the United States by Random House in 1961."--title page verso.

In 1953, Olivia de Havilland, already an Academy Award-winning actress for her roles in To Each His Own and The Heiress, became the heroine of her own real-life love affair. She married a Frenchman, moved to Paris, and planted her standard on the Left Bank of the River Seine. Her transition from Hollywood celebrity to Parisienne was anything but easy. She recounts her skirmishes with French customs, French maids, French salesladies, French holidays, French law, French doctors, and above all, the French language, in this delightful and amusing memoir of her early years in the City of Light. Olivia Mary de Havilland (born in 1916) is a British-American actress whose motion picture career spanned from 1935 to 1988. She is one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood. She appeared in 49 feature films, and was one of the leading movie stars during the golden age of Classical Hollywood. She is best known for her early screen performances in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) and Gone with the Wind (1939), and her later award-winning performances in To Each His Own (1946), The Snake Pit (1948), and The Heiress (1949). Born in Tokyo to English parents, de Havilland and her younger sister, actress Joan Fontaine, moved to California in 1919. Olivia de Havilland has lived in Paris since 1956, and she celebrated her 100th birthday on July 1, 2016.

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