Olivia de Havilland was born in Tokyo in 1916 to british parents. His father, Walter, who had scored in the biography of the Victory of the Amateur. Olivia de Havilland: Lady Triumphantit was a lawyer, while her mother, Lillian, was an actress and teacher of voice. The career of Lillian never lived up to his lofty aspirations, he wanted his theatre to his two children, Olivia and sister Joan.
In 1919, the family moved to the us in California, because of the problems of the bronchial loss suffered by Her and her sister (born just 15 months after Her), with the Meeting with the feeling that the climate would be beneficial to your health. However, his home life was far from perfect. In accordance with the The lady in triumphWalter, it was not discreet when it comes to concealing their “infidelity” to his wife and children, and her lover, a japanese, living with a family, employed as a housekeeper.
Finally, He left the Meeting because of your love for the keys, and went back to Japan, when the girls were little. Since that time, the parent of de Havilland, it has continued to be a figure that is far away “[playing] they have little or nothing in the young life of the game “. As for the actress said in a cold voice on the The lady in triumph“I don’t remember any social problem related to the lack of the presence of the father”.
